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In reply to the discussion: Black Folk Outrage vs. White Folk Outrage [View all]olegramps
(8,200 posts)I can't say what I really think of Sanders and whole damn Republican Party. Its not fit for publishing.
The situation is simple. Trump and his cadre of imps are exploiting the undereducated and misinformed. Trump and his cadre of the top 1% are duping these clowns who actually believe that their lousy situation can be magically improved by these charlatans.
They can't face the fact that the world in which a person could have a high school or even less education could make a decent living working in rote factory jobs. Those jobs are gone and never coming back. They should visit a modern factory employing robotics and automation. The robots work 24/7 without a complaint, doing perfect functions with continuous evaluation of the process to assure its quality.
I have spent hours with these people who just can't grasp the fact that their situation is totally dependent on their failure, and to an extent of society, to prepare themselves for the today's world. Yes, a certain number of jobs have been outsourced to cheaper labor markets, but they pale in comparison to those lost by automation. This runs the entire spectrum from clerical to manufacturing with the added fact that will continue unabated. That is not to say that trade agreements can not be improved. But the fact remains that the corporations have one goal, maximize profits and they have no problem with exploiting desperate workers. It is a vicious business and if they don't take advantage of every opportunity they will be quickly destroyed. The abandonment of workers from unions is also a factor that has allowed the process to go on unchallenged without adequate retraining.