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Many people in rural areas do most of their shopping in Walmart, Dollar General, Harbor Freight and so on,

I have relatives in rural Ohio. They shop at Walmart and Dollar General because there's nothing else left.

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And if you tried explaining the real unfair trade practices: decimation of unions, looting companies by vampire capitalists like Mitt Romney, permitting gargantuan consolidation of the market*, drastically rewriting the tax code to favor billionaires over everyone else, all done by the same "free market" gods they worship, they'll call you a commie.

*This is a great way to demonstrate to anyone what that's doing. 4 companies sell 48% of all the hand and power tools on the market. (and Harbor Freight is NOT one of them, and the biggest StanleyBlackDecker makes nearly everything overseas as well.)

https://www.popularmechanic...

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