Many of these rural people aren't looking for you to prop up their economies. They are eager for you to stop outsourcing their jobs, demeaning their existence, lowering their wages so executives can get large bonuses, and in general acting like you are much better/above them. Even more so they are eager to get to work and have a representative government that listens to them and isn't trying to push an elitist globalist agenda onto them.
This. The grandparent is one of the most condescending comments I've read in the last 12 hours, and that's saying something.
The suburban and rural people who grow America's food, get its energy out of the ground, and manufacture what hasn't been outsourced yet don't want anything from people like him. They have too much pride for that—the good kind, not the kind the grandparent has.
I didn't vote for Trump, but I know a lot of people who did, and every single one of them is a decent, hard-working human being. Upon seeing, reading, and hearing the things being said about Trump voters this morning, my brother, a self-employed furniture maker who did for Trump, said, "I didn't know I was a racist. I just thought I wanted affordable health insurance."
The country's political elites dismissed people like him. The outcome of this election is the result. The attitude of the grandparent is how we got here.
And there the working class disparagers go again, saying they know the true motivations of people like my brother. This, right here, is the willful blindness I'm talking about.
Maybe—just maybe—people like my brother viewed Hillary as Obama's third term? He doesn't particularly trust Trump; he just trusted Hillary less. If Democrats really wanted to fix ObamaCare, he reasons, they had plenty of time to do it.
If you want to lose an entire voting bloc, call them racists and question their motivations instead of listening to their frustrations. It has just been proven to work.
I want to listen to your concerns. So you tell me: Affordable healthcare is the deciding factor. I look to the facts and say "No, that doesn't make sense. That can't be it. What are you not telling me?"
You assume that I assume that his "True feelings" are racist.
We could get in to why he considers a third term of Obama's policies to be bad. A blanket statement of "Everything Obama did is terrible forever" also doesn't help describe your brother's true feelings.
On the issue of trust, the choice between "Career Politician" and "80's Businessman" is kind of a toss up. So again, we would need to go in to detail.
I really don't think there has been 'plenty of time' to fix the Affordable Care Act. It was enacted in 2010, majorly phased in in 2014, and will continue to phase in in 2020. So, the magnitude and reach of this is going to take some serious time come to grips with in order to find and fix the problems.
Obviously he is innocent until proven guilty. But an unfounded rejection of the candidate who's message is based on inclusiveness looks a lot like evidence that he is guilty.
So, how do we get the discussion of whether his objections are unfounded?
Except that they are expecting California and New York and other states to pay for their federal government services, while our own states lose money.
> Dominated by Republican voters who profess their distaste for the federal government and its social programs, these are the very states that rank highest on the dependency index.
With all due respect, what specific policy changes do you expect that will address their job outsourcing, demeaning of existence, and lowered wages (?!? seriously?).
I see democrats with specific answers to all of these questions and none from Trump. I mean, OK: we lost, you won. But that also means you need to govern now and not just shitpost. Wat do?
I would like to see a reduction in H1B's and the ability of companies to move their manufacturing operations offshore when the driving factor is just reducing wages.
Your first suggestion is "raise wages for programmers". That's not remotely the demographic being discussed and you know it.
I'd be curious about your suggestions for implementing the second, because it sounds a lot like Bernie Sanders. No way is a republican congress going to regulate manufacturing like that.
I agree that specifics are still needed, but H-1B reform was in fact a conservative issue this cycle[-], and Trump spent a lot of energy promising to broadly regulate manufacturing and trade.
1. I'm unclear how H1B's relate to 'outsourcing' jobs since by definition the people come here. You don't need an H1B to hire a company in India or China to do work.
2. I'm curious how reducing H1B's is supposed to affect blue collar or rural jobs.
