2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: On a scale of 0-10, how worried are you about Trump winning? [View all]napi21
(45,806 posts)believe the don the con can (or really wants to) do what he's promising. I try to tell people he CAN'T build a wall between the US & Mexico because it CAN'T physically be done! There are things like mountains, gorges & waterways that prevent it. I CAN'T bring those old high paying jobs back. IF, and that's a big IF, he does manage to renegotiate all those treaties, and somehow force the mfg. to be done in the US, those employers will never PAY THE Wages they used to.
I grew up in PA. and still lived there when all the steel & iron works closed down in Pa. & Ohio. The workers were nearly destroyed. Lots of then were in their late 40's or 50's and couldn't find ANY JOB at all! They nor their families have forgotten the effect on them and the entire country. They blame it on NAFTA. Don the con says he'll bring those jobs back, and they are so desperate, they believe him!
People like those folks live in the sections of different States that we Democrats rely on to always be Democrats and VOTE for the Democratic candidate. If a majority of them vote for Don the con, WE LOSE!!!!
That's why I'm at level 10 and will remain so unless something really dramatic happens to convince me that I'm wrong.