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In reply to the discussion: What cures the economic ills of "Flyover Country"/Middle/Rural America? [View all]Willie Pep
(841 posts)33. Exactly.
When people think about good factory jobs they are thinking about the 1950s and 1960s when these jobs were heavily unionized. They forget that before unionization factory jobs were often dangerous, dirty and low-paying. That is one of my issues with Trump supporters. They think Trump will turn back the clock to 1950. Even if Trump could bring back a bunch of manufacturing jobs, he is anti-union and so it is likely that if he had his way these manufacturing jobs wouldn't pay well.
I think this is one of the big issues with right-wing nostalgia. They are nostalgic for the economic system of the post-World War II era but fail to realize that that was the heyday of unions and big government liberalism, not right-wing economics.
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What cures the economic ills of "Flyover Country"/Middle/Rural America? [View all]
HughBeaumont
Dec 2016
OP
Except they have no money to move to a more expensive place where they have no job waiting for them.
LonePirate
Dec 2016
#6
the good news is that the Right is even more clueless about this... still selling trickle down
JCMach1
Dec 2016
#22
Trade reform leading to decent jobs or it won't be pretty...there will literally
Demsrule86
Dec 2016
#7
There isn't much to cure rural economic ills. There's no plan for options to Mayberry.
haele
Dec 2016
#13
yup. dont know why people act as though factory jobs were inherently good
La Lioness Priyanka
Dec 2016
#31