Fox News Just Told Us The Truth About American Jobs
This isn’t about immigrants. It’s not about China. It’s about profit. And they’re not hiding it anymore.
There’s a clip making rounds right now where a manufacturing executive finally says the quiet part out loud:
“What kind of manufacturing are you talking about returning here? Robotics is going to replace the cheap labor we sent overseas.”
Of course Fox News didn’t challenge him…No spin. No flag-waving.
Because what do you say after the truth hits the table?
They’re not bringing those jobs back. They never planned to.
They’ve spent decades selling the same lie.
And it works — because people are hurting. Because they remember the days when one paycheck could feed a family. When working with your hands meant stability, not struggle.
But that’s not the economy they’re building. That’s the economy they dismantled — on purpose.
While they gave speeches about saving the working class, they funded automation, gutted unions, and shipped entire towns overseas.
And now, they’re standing in front of us again — talking about “revitalization” while building systems that don’t include workers at all.
This isn’t about hard work. It’s about who profits from it.
I’ve met enough welders, farmers, teachers, nurses, and retail workers to know that people aren’t lazy. They’re exhausted.
They’re doing more with less. Watching billionaires talk about bootstrap grit while taking home pandemic profits. Watching politicians make promises that get press — but not policy.
Automation isn’t the villain. The absence of a plan is.
So what now?
So are we ready to stop pretending the old jobs are coming back? Are we ready to stop repeating the same slogans every four years?
And we start asking real questions:
What does economic dignity look like when machines can do most labor?
Who owns the tech that’s replacing us?
What happens when work is no longer the gateway to survival?
Because if we don’t define the future of work, they will. And we already know what their version looks like:
Cheaper. Faster. Disposable.
We don’t need more empty campaign ads.
We need truth. We need organizing. And we need a plan rooted in people, not profit.
Not just to survive the next wave — but to build something beyond it.
Because the jobs aren’t coming back.
But our power? That’s still up to us, and it still can.
We can dream big. But we have to act bigger. Because no one’s coming to save us. But we’re still here. And we still have each other.
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