Why do American auto workers think we will buy cars just due to rhetoric?

by Arty Smokes (deaf mute)
Question by scryer_360: Why do American auto workers think we will buy cars just due to rhetoric?
I hear it all the time: buy American. American this, American that. We have xxx.

But after quite possibly thirty years of that strategy FAILING, why do American automakers and their ilk still try and sell cars based on rhetoric, not the car itself?

Where I am coming from with this is that yesterday I was looking at some used car lot, checking prices, and after

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