Buying American because you happened to have been born in the United States makes as much sense as preferring the Cleveland Browns football franchise just because you're from Northern Ohio, or preferring any other sports franchise because they happen to be near you. What makes a company "American"? The nationality of its anonymous shareholders around the world? The nationality of the company's senior management team? The nationality of its designers and engineers? Or the nationality of its assembly workers? Is GM auto assembled in Canada from internationally-sourced parts more "American" than a Ford auto made in Mexico? Are Detroit-branded autos shipped from neighboring countries more "American" than a Honda from a plant in Ohio, a Hyundai from Alabama, a Volkswagen from Tennessee or a Mercedes from South Carolina?

Why are workers in the country you live in (with the highest GDP of any country in the world) somehow more deserving than workers in poorer countries? Or do you just want to support the citizens a country (whose owning-class citizens have vastly different interests than its working-class citizens) with a military budget the size of the nine next largest militaries combined? Maybe, we're saying that American human beings are somehow just better than non-American human beings and would we still think the same if we ourselves were non-American?

Rather than subscribing to nationalism and dividing people by country of origin, I prefer classism and dividing people into the owning-class, middle-class, working-class, and the poor. I don't think owning-class and middle-class human beings need any extra support from me. I do, however, feel an obligation to pay attention to the working-class and poor human beings sharing the planet with me, especially those who are least able to overcome their life's challenges.

As far as I'm aware, over their collective histories, Specialized has been a more ethical company than Trek. If that's not true, then I'd love to hear the details and thus be better informed.