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In reply to the discussion: Dear globalists, allow me to explain why Americans are rebelling en masse against you [View all]HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)As someone who is relatively unaffected by the effects of globalization and job offshoring, the President is somewhat incapable of being in the shoes of a blue collar worker who gets laid off and is financially limited when it comes to bettering themselves. He cannot relate to the frustration of the white collar R&D specialist whose position was sent to lower-cost shores because the CEO's stock price needed to rise a quarter of a point and is kept on the job search treadmill for 6 to 8 months while the bills never go away.
Economically, I am a progressive who has posted chart after statistic after fact after plain-and-simple visual evidence that the neo-liberal model of Free Trade and Free Movement of Labor has done nothing in 30 years but kept the yachts a-floating while drowning America in it's "rising tide".
Economically, I have no candidate. I have no representation. Most of Congress, Republican AND Democrat, loves the COC's pro-free-trade stance and the unfair models of neo-liberal economics.
It doesn't matter what party you're from: Advocating Republican-authored models of free trade, globalization and job offshoring is the same thing as advocating that one worker's progress and livelihood MUST be deteriorated or stifled in order to enhance someone else's progress . . . an action that, in the end, helps NO one but corporations and the wealthy that run them.
Is that the way America progresses . . . that only ONE class gets theirs? COME on.