Did "the economic message not resonate", or is it that we just didn't want to LIE to them?

[HughBeaumont]

14. If you mean this section -

What I'm gathering from all the political/news commentators and comments sections was that they wanted someone to tell them their jobs are returning, their talents are necessary, and there would be no need for them to get additional skills to improve their lives (even though they seem to have no issue telling minimum wage earners this . . . over and over and over and over again).

That's probably my fault for not wording it clearly enough.

It's a common trope for conservative white workers in positions that involve skill (which also come with generally inadequate pay) on any topic that involves raising the minimum wage to tell minimum wage workers to "SUPERSIZE YER SKILL SET HAW HAW HAW", implying they don't deserve $15 an hour for low skill positions.

They never bother INSTEAD to ask themselves

a) why are we still considering $12-14/hr some extravagant wage reserved for higher skilled labor in 2016?
b) why am I NOT earning more for my SKILLED job?
c) why is "McDonalds" now the new "blue collar work"? How did that come to be?