America stopped depending on British manufactured goods , and I am sure the first domestic goods were crude in comparison , but American ingenuity eventually created excellent quality and a strong economy .
The globalists now want to topple our economy ( and Constitutionally mandated freedoms for the individual ) because of the success of bygone eras when America was , in large measure , a sovereign nation .
Innovation requires an environment of freedom of thought , difficult to achieve in the socialist/Communist conformist system . That is why China is so dependent on stolen intellectual property .