> Who is the buyer?
You are

With your tax money. With your votes.

They're there not to sell you a plane directly but to make you happy with the money spent. To make you excited about the machines.

Think of it as a political ad, not a sales ad

Is there a way an American can vote to not buy F-35s?

This is why, on so many issues, the idea that the American public "chose" the outcome is a fantasy. When every possible candidate for office supports the military industrial complex, how is one supposed to vote against it?

You can try; the plane is already made and exported, and for certain customers (eg. the US Navy) they're going to struggle to find anything that replaces it.

The best way to invest "against" the F-35 is to put money in companies like Embraer and Saab, which have put up a strong fight on the export market.

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They fly over the superbowl every year no matter how I might vote.