[superduty]

You imagine wrong, at least in the case of Ford’s execs.

The burden of corrupt and useless unions and the ancient dealership model are direct contributors to the garbage the big 3 put out. Stifled product and manufacturing innovation, build costs out of control, quality disincentivized, and the ever present spectre of easy Democrat $$bailouts work against designing or building or delivering anything good at a reasonable cost.

[AlotOfReading]

Having worked pretty directly with multiple OEMs, I can't say I've seen many issues caused caused by whatever political axe you have to grind. I've lost count of the number of times I saw executives make decisions that had obvious negative repercussions. Things like not paying critical suppliers to get leverage in negotiations, then being surprised when production can't run.

[panick21_]

The Union and the dealerships are not the reason for these issues.

[Zigurd]

Dealerships kind of are