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This morning all I hear on Morning Joe and over at CNN, was how the people that voted for Trump felt "left behind" and "forgotten Americans".
So... what the F is it that they want, exactly?
And why in the hell would they think some billionaire TV game show host could or would deliver that to them?
I mean really....
I get the sense they are people that are mostly non college educated, probably dropped out of school or graduated with an GED.
They work hard for a living, or possibly have not worked for some time.
And most likely their fathers and grandfathers were unskilled non college educated factory workers, or worked on the family farm, or worked in the small family business.
Well....
The factories went south, and the farms taken over by the corporations, and the small family business were squashed by the big box stores.
So now they think some billionaire will understand their plight and can pull rabbits out of his magical hat?
They have all bought into this crap from Donald Trump, that he can bring back those father/son factory jobs that once gave dad and gramps a pretty damn good living with a decent wage.
They fail to realize that one can only get help by helping themselves.
No billionaire is going to do that for them.
If they are unskilled and unemployed, they need to get training.
Either a local area community college or train in a profession as an apprentice.
Something, anything where they can lift themselves up.
The reason so many feel so left behind, those factory jobs that dad and his dad worked all their life are forever gone.
And the reason the factories went away to Mexico was not due to democrats nor republicans in congress.
The reason the factory jobs went away was plain and simple corporate greed.
Something that Donald Trump knows all too well how that works.
And lets just say President Donald Trump could being back those factory jobs.
What would they look like?
Well, any factory job returning from Mexico back to the states is not going to be anywheres near that same factory job dad or gramps once had.
Dad and his dad worked the factory job and earned a good decent wage only because they were unionized.
The unions guaranteed and delivered a decent living wage for the worker.
If Donald Trump and republicans do indeed bring back those jobs from Mexico, the unions are not coming along with them.
Republicans are not now nor never have been union friendly.
Any factory job Donald Trump brings back to the states will be low minimum waged jobs.
And most likely paying less than the minimum wage because Trump has said he prefer there be no minimum wage, period.
And the only way Trump will bring back those factory jobs would be to promise the corporations they can indeed pay a low wage, pay any wage they want. And forget about providing any benefits.
Donald Trump will never provide a decent waged factory job to the Americans that feel so forgotten and so ignored. And still, they voted for Trump.
On the other hand if it would have been Hillary Clinton, proven and dedicated for improving the lives of the forgotten and ignored, then we would have had real hope.
By making college more affordable, and state college practically free.
That would have given opportunity for that unemployed displaced worker, allowing to learn and return back into the workplace with a skill and a future.
And it would have been a Hillary Clinton and only a Hillary Clinton that would have raised the wage thus giving those forgotten a better chance once again.
Donald Trump nor one single republican in congress will ever provide any of what Hillary would have.
Trump and his republicans offer absolutely no help for education, nor any help for wages.
And to make things even worse, Donald Trump and Paul Ryan will do something Hillary Clinton would have never done. To take away what healthcare those forgotten and displaced now have, privatizing their social security, and voucher-izing their medicare.
So what safety net those so lost and so forgotten did have would be striped away.
I don't know what it was that all of those Trump supporters think they heard Donald Trump say to them at those Trump rallies, but factory jobs without unions will get them nowhere.
And health without healthcare will do them no good.
And giving the top wealthy of America along with those gigantic corporations even more and larger tax cuts is not going to trickle down into empty wallets. Not one dime.
Yes... they F@@k-ed up.
They F@@k-ed themselves up royally by believing in some billionaire that claims to have all the answers to all their woes coming out of his magical hat.
And that hat he refuses to show them, but still insists that they believe he owns.
So the bottom line, they rejected that sure bet.
They rejected Hillary Clinton along with a democratic controlled senate, instead opting for the very thing that definitely will make their lives even harder and less survivable.
They opted for a Donald Trump and an republican controlled congress.
Both of which have never once shown any interest in those feeling displaced, forgotten, and left behind.
For republicans like Trump it has always been about wealth and corporate greed.
The banks. The market. The Donald Trump's.
So with doing what they did, electing the very thing that will destroy them, I have to ask...
WHAT THE "F" IS IT THAT THEY REALLY WANT?
AND WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING?
So... what the F is it that they want, exactly?
And why in the hell would they think some billionaire TV game show host could or would deliver that to them?
I mean really....
I get the sense they are people that are mostly non college educated, probably dropped out of school or graduated with an GED.
They work hard for a living, or possibly have not worked for some time.
And most likely their fathers and grandfathers were unskilled non college educated factory workers, or worked on the family farm, or worked in the small family business.
Well....
The factories went south, and the farms taken over by the corporations, and the small family business were squashed by the big box stores.
So now they think some billionaire will understand their plight and can pull rabbits out of his magical hat?
They have all bought into this crap from Donald Trump, that he can bring back those father/son factory jobs that once gave dad and gramps a pretty damn good living with a decent wage.
They fail to realize that one can only get help by helping themselves.
No billionaire is going to do that for them.
If they are unskilled and unemployed, they need to get training.
Either a local area community college or train in a profession as an apprentice.
Something, anything where they can lift themselves up.
The reason so many feel so left behind, those factory jobs that dad and his dad worked all their life are forever gone.
And the reason the factories went away to Mexico was not due to democrats nor republicans in congress.
The reason the factory jobs went away was plain and simple corporate greed.
Something that Donald Trump knows all too well how that works.
And lets just say President Donald Trump could being back those factory jobs.
What would they look like?
Well, any factory job returning from Mexico back to the states is not going to be anywheres near that same factory job dad or gramps once had.
Dad and his dad worked the factory job and earned a good decent wage only because they were unionized.
The unions guaranteed and delivered a decent living wage for the worker.
If Donald Trump and republicans do indeed bring back those jobs from Mexico, the unions are not coming along with them.
Republicans are not now nor never have been union friendly.
Any factory job Donald Trump brings back to the states will be low minimum waged jobs.
And most likely paying less than the minimum wage because Trump has said he prefer there be no minimum wage, period.
And the only way Trump will bring back those factory jobs would be to promise the corporations they can indeed pay a low wage, pay any wage they want. And forget about providing any benefits.
Donald Trump will never provide a decent waged factory job to the Americans that feel so forgotten and so ignored. And still, they voted for Trump.
On the other hand if it would have been Hillary Clinton, proven and dedicated for improving the lives of the forgotten and ignored, then we would have had real hope.
By making college more affordable, and state college practically free.
That would have given opportunity for that unemployed displaced worker, allowing to learn and return back into the workplace with a skill and a future.
And it would have been a Hillary Clinton and only a Hillary Clinton that would have raised the wage thus giving those forgotten a better chance once again.
Donald Trump nor one single republican in congress will ever provide any of what Hillary would have.
Trump and his republicans offer absolutely no help for education, nor any help for wages.
And to make things even worse, Donald Trump and Paul Ryan will do something Hillary Clinton would have never done. To take away what healthcare those forgotten and displaced now have, privatizing their social security, and voucher-izing their medicare.
So what safety net those so lost and so forgotten did have would be striped away.
I don't know what it was that all of those Trump supporters think they heard Donald Trump say to them at those Trump rallies, but factory jobs without unions will get them nowhere.
And health without healthcare will do them no good.
And giving the top wealthy of America along with those gigantic corporations even more and larger tax cuts is not going to trickle down into empty wallets. Not one dime.
Yes... they F@@k-ed up.
They F@@k-ed themselves up royally by believing in some billionaire that claims to have all the answers to all their woes coming out of his magical hat.
And that hat he refuses to show them, but still insists that they believe he owns.
So the bottom line, they rejected that sure bet.
They rejected Hillary Clinton along with a democratic controlled senate, instead opting for the very thing that definitely will make their lives even harder and less survivable.
They opted for a Donald Trump and an republican controlled congress.
Both of which have never once shown any interest in those feeling displaced, forgotten, and left behind.
For republicans like Trump it has always been about wealth and corporate greed.
The banks. The market. The Donald Trump's.
So with doing what they did, electing the very thing that will destroy them, I have to ask...
WHAT THE "F" IS IT THAT THEY REALLY WANT?
AND WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING?
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