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Number seven, energy and infrastructure neglect.
Weakening domestic energy production.
or failing to maintain infrastructure can hurt national security and economic resilience.
Now, I think that may actually be written into the DNC platform.
Their objective is to weaken domestic energy production and fail to maintain infrastructure.
Like, it is the entirety of what the Biden administration did 365 days for four years consecutively.
Yes?
Yes.
All right, number eight.
Dependence
on adversaries, relying heavily on rival nations for critical supply chains, energy, technology, manufacturing, can create strategic vulnerabilities.
Yeah, and to be fair, this one I will not blame entirely on the Democrats.
There are a lot of Republicans who bear some blame for making us so totally dependent on China.
I've spent 14 years in the Senate fighting to de-link our economy from China, to move semiconductor manufacturing back to this country, to move pharmaceuticals back to this country, to move critical minerals back to this country.
Both parties bear some fault in letting us become so dependent on China.
But what's amazing about this, Ben...
Chat GPT is generally considered a lean pretty left.
You did not ask some right wing source, criticize the Democrat agenda.
And let me ask a serious question.
If you were a Democrat senator, let's say you're Chuck Schumer.