Progressive leadership in a nutshell

[Danth]

Originally Posted by Byue [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Basically, and I feel sad for you, you are angry at capitalists who emptied your city so they could better profit of exploiting other people in other countries.

I agree. You'll note in my own post I generally avoided terms like 'right' and 'left.' The republican party around here has profited hugely by constantly reminding people that it was Clinton who signed NAFTA, but in actual practice "Team R" does nothing to help the local region, either. It's all pandering. My own home county was something like 85% pro-Trump in the last election. "Lopsided" doesn't even describe it adequately. I don't like seeing it because it becomes even easier for a government to ignore a region once it decides that region is a "lock" one way or the other and hence not worth caring about.

"Putting all their eggs in one basket" sidesteps the real issue: There are more workers than good jobs. You can't transplant millions of unemployed or under-employed rust belt'ers to California or Washington and suddenly see a bunch of new work materialize out of nowhere. You can tell people to go to college--and the government has--but all that has accomplished is a degradation of the relative value of a diploma again without driving any great job creation. The real solution--I don't know if it'll happen in my own lifetime or not--will be to somehow re-orient the economy to where full employment is no longer required or expected. If that sounds, well, slightly socialist then I'll simply point out I am not nor ever have been a Republican, even if I might occasionally vote for one. My parents were lifelong FDR democrats and my own political leaning, while distinct from theirs, still has a lot of that flavor to it.

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Horza: Sure there are some racist idiots around here, as with anyplace else. I am not going to paint the majority by the actions of a minority. That should be fair enough.

Danth