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bogfiton Dec 10, 2021 12:31pm
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RE:Diggin; One of the great things about democracies is
RE:Diggin; One of the great things about democracies is "why- so many people are angry"???
It is because they are disappointed. Life has failed to live up to their expectations for many reasons and more often than not, this failure was compounded by factors far beyond their control. Many assumed that they would learn on-the-job down at the plant, just like their dad and failed to make the most of the public education they were offered, and were then lacking the ability to move up economically when manufacturing disappeared. The good paying factory jobs went overseas, not because of any government policy or political ideology, but purely due to the labor arbitrage and economic competition.
A little over ten years ago, after recovering from the worse economic downturn in 80 years, the loss of factory jobs and the rise of Asia was obvious. Also obvious was that while Asian standard of living and Chinese economy was to increase rapidly, that of the U.S. would stagnate; simply because it would be politically impossible to ask Americans to give up ground. And so, China’s standard of living rose while here many who expected to work and retire from the plant in town, found themselves clerking at some big box store for starvation wages.
They don’t blame themselves for not seeing this coming. Who did? But someone must be at fault. In 1930’s Germany the defeat of the Fatherland in WWI was blamed upon another scapegoat. Today, it’s people of color, but it’s not their fault either. Maybe it’s nobody’s fault. It’s not them, it’s not us. It’s not right or left, it’s the reality that a house divided cannot stand, or being led to ruin by a cultish demagogue.
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