>People don't want to hear that, but those are the alternatives.
I wish we had politicians who would treat Americans as adults and tell them things they don't want to hear. We watched a whole country get swindled by a conman who promised a return to glorious 1958.
Nobody shed any tears for the horse-and-buggy industry, or the cotton-picking industry, cobbler industry, the millions of people who used to be employed in manual farming methods - why are suddenly people who used to be employed in factories this tender, can't-be-told-the-truth "protected" class of people we all must bow down to?
Yeah I get it - your father raised 4 kids in a white-picket-fence 2-car-garage house by pushing a button in factory, all while being barely literate and not being able to point out Canada on a map.
So those days are gone, forever - so what do we do going forward?
Instead, the entire country is now held hostage by the pissed-off, unable-to-accept-the-truth rust-belt blue-collar class who've been told they're the "real" America or whatever and are now dragging everyone else down with them. Wonderful.
> I wish we had politicians who would treat Americans as adults and tell them things they don't want to hear.
If that's what Americans wanted, they'd vote for it; but they don't, they prefer politicians who tell them what they want to hear and so that's who they put into office. Want to lose an election, tell the truth.
I suspect it is hard to sell the electorate as a whole on the nuance required to tell them these jobs aren't coming back but you are the best choice for election.
Pretty much every election campaign seems to be run on "the county is in crisis and we can save it", regardless of the state of the constitution country.
Here in Australia there is a decade old thought, not back up by evidence, that the Liberal Party are better enconomic managers. Even after months of compaigning on complex issues you will have that line bought up on Election Day as to the rationale of their vote.
There was a Scythian ritual/sport that involved a rider slashing his horse's throat, and riding it down. I gather that it was dangerous. Rather like a mix of bull fighting and rodeo, except with horses.
I wish we had politicians who would treat Americans as adults and tell them things they don't want to hear. We watched a whole country get swindled by a conman who promised a return to glorious 1958.
Nobody shed any tears for the horse-and-buggy industry, or the cotton-picking industry, cobbler industry, the millions of people who used to be employed in manual farming methods - why are suddenly people who used to be employed in factories this tender, can't-be-told-the-truth "protected" class of people we all must bow down to?
Yeah I get it - your father raised 4 kids in a white-picket-fence 2-car-garage house by pushing a button in factory, all while being barely literate and not being able to point out Canada on a map.
So those days are gone, forever - so what do we do going forward?
Instead, the entire country is now held hostage by the pissed-off, unable-to-accept-the-truth rust-belt blue-collar class who've been told they're the "real" America or whatever and are now dragging everyone else down with them. Wonderful.