2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This Article Nails It: Bernie is about to give Democrats their 'come to Jesus' moment [View all]Jitter65
(3,089 posts)workers anymore, they have technology and people refuse to understand that. The rest of the world also has or is getting more technology. We either have a seat at the table or stand in the corner and get wasted.
We just can't tell voters what they WANT to hear. We need to tell them what they NEED to hear. I think Hillary does a better job of telling us what we need than either Trump or Sanders. Voters want to hear that industrial jobs are coming back as well as coal miner jobs...it ain't gonna happen! People want to hear that they can have free college tuition for ALL...it ain't gonna happen. People want to hear that single-payer health insurance will solve their health insurance problem...it ain't gonna happen unless they are willing to be taxed to the teeth. It's not so much that we can't create jobs...we just can't create ENOUGH high paying jobs to meet the ever increasing eligible workforce. We don't just have Mexican immigrant workers, we have Russian, Asian, Balkan and Baltic and Slavic immigrant workers.
Instead of addressing the need for training and building the education systems we need for the 21st century and preparing our public servants for the global issues they will be facing we continue to raise the issues people are angry about and respond with the solutions the want to hear. Hillary more than any other candidate out there understands this and tries to address it not with a vision to just destroy the systems we have or a vision to take us back to what we had. Her vision is about what we need.