HooDat wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 5:33 pm....aaaaaand why we have Trump as our president. He's not fixing it for them - although in the long run the trade wars are intended to help protect Joe six-pack from having to compete with someone in a mud-hut under despotic rule.a fan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 5:23 pm As it is now? Hanging by a thread.
3rdPersonPlural wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 04, 2019 3:12 pm
For wages that reflect that they're competing with southeast asian child and slave labor.
This is your home run sentence. They don't understand that if tariffs and socialism are removed, your value as a worker is determined by the global free market. And there's plenty of humans out there who would gladly work for $100 a month.
The distance between Trump and Sanders is far less than the distance between them and Warren, Biden, Romney, Bush, and every "Fortune 100" company ceo out there.
Rolling Stone (or at least Matt Taibbi) sees it similarly....
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... ssion=trueIn 2016 we saw a pair of electoral revolts, one on the right and one on the left, against the cratering popularity of our political elite. The rightist populist revolt succeeded, the Sanders movement did not.