I still don't like the term "American". I'm of Native American "Indian" (another bad term, Columbus thought he landed in India...thus the name "Indian") descent, so, the vast majority of you are foreigners to the land you call "America".
Look around and try to grasp the concept of Global Economy. It's real. It's here. And, it's here to stay...even if it is burning up resources with too little regard to the future. Using up resources too fast, with the concomitant destruction that goes along with that style of living, is much more important than whether some Union worker in Detroit makes more money than a Nurse in an orphanage. Not that the car manufacturers in Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, etc., are without similar blood on their hands.
Autos are a dirty business. It's just a question of degrees of dirt, as to whether you prefer to support one company over another...or, if you decide not to support any of them...it actually has little to do with nationalism.
If everyone can understand we are on a spaceship together, and fouling the spaceship's systems too much hurts everyone, we'd be looking at the more important issues...and these issues are NOT nationalism. Oh, the spaceship is called Earth, in case the analogy wasn't clicking...
Peace. Out.