but unfortunately a lot of folks don t think that this country is something to be proud of, and when you are in a global geopolitical struggle or one nation is afraid of it s own shadow and the other nation is a proud of itself, it s not too difficult to imagine which nation is going to win and i think because of this, just one really important point in all of this is that we have to be willing to push back against this stuff using political power. you know i m a republican, but one of the things i don ton like about the republican party d the days is that we are afraid of actually using political power. there are things that we couldan do to push back against these companies that are taking the side of china over america. we could go after their stadium subsidies, but what happened last time we had significant political power? the very same companies that are taking the side of china over americans and american consumers got a big tax break. we can t keep doing this. we can keep shoot