Do you sometimes feel like you have to win the lottery just to have a decent life?

[moondust]

13. I'm so old...

I remember when well-paying manufacturing jobs were almost like a safety net. You didn't need much education to do them so if you couldn't find a job you really wanted to do you could always fall back on manufacturing and still make a good living.

Then came Reagan and unbridled greed/neoliberalism, globalization, and offshoring jobs--basically predatory capitalism--and that manufacturing "safety net" of good-paying jobs with pensions and union protections began to slip away.

I'm guessing that Trump's cult would be much smaller and less radical today if those manufacturing jobs were still around allowing MAGAts to make a good living even if not particularly smart or well educated.