I keep reading about this huge push to levy massive sanctions on Iran, and it got me thinking about what would happen if the US were sanctioned at some point.
Aside from the initial hardships of trying to learn how to cope without cheap Chinese crap, I think that in the long run, we'd be better off and stronger for it.
oil shortages---->we'd have to tap into more of our own resources, develop more solar, more nuclear and various alternative energy sources. More jobs.
computers/cell phones/electronics----> we'd actually have to set up manufacturing facilities to make our own damned computers. More jobs.
medical devices----->we could keep what remains of that industry and re-expand it. Also more jobs.
recycling---->more creative uses for plastics, paper, etc. possibly even nuclear waste.
partisan BS---->wouldn't matter as much because we'd have to work together to get stuff done.
I know I'm missing some other things, and that there's obviously got to be some goods that we import that we can't produce ourselves, but it'd either trigger that "old-timey" self-reliance that we used to be known for, or we'd just crumble into a sobbing heap when we can't buy Chuck Taylors made in China for dirt cheap.
Why wouldn't sanctions in Iran also have the effect of ultimately strengthening and uniting them, especially considering that they're less ethnically diverse. (That might be a bit controversial, I know, but racism from all sides would be a much bigger issue here than it would there.
Thoughts?
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