This diary (or post, as it were) is an extension, more or less, to a comment I made about where to find USA-made goods in Delawareliberal's diary about Steve Jobs' emphasis on appealing to emotion rather than reason and facts, and how it works often in favor of Republicans at the voting booth.
Though tangential to Delawareliberal's excellent diary the subject may be, I made the comment in response to another Kossack's request for a list of USA-made goods, as they are understandably difficult to find in big-box stores, but not so much online. In fact, USA-made goods, I'm finding, are everywhere, and in my experience, it's easier than ever to find them via the magic of the Internets.
Until recently, "Buying American" had often seemed, to me, to be the province of only right-wingers not wanting to buy "foreign-made" goods out of a xenophobic or even racist aversion to seeing MADE IN CHINA labels stamped prominently on or in almost everything you find at Target, Wal-Mart, or even "liberal" Costco these days. How very wrong I was. There is very much a liberal case to be made for buying American-made goods--in fact, it is very important that, from an economic, environmental, and human-rights perspective, we do so as much as we can.
More at the jump.
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