These white non-college working class people really do want to turn America into full stupid, and we need to do everything we can to de-citizenise them and disempower them.
A good way to fail is to do what failed people do.
Note that there is no possibility of the US dominating tech forever. This is the neoliberal world order that America must come to accept. The rest of the world is industrializing, and we are best when we can stand with them instead of avoiding them. This is also why we need things like TPP and NAFTA. China isn't the only player out there..