It was a good article.
To my understanding, there are two major reasons why voters are voting for Trump.
1) Like my parents, they are all about the Supreme Court. They think that a progressive Supreme Court will be the worst thing that can happen, ever.
2) The social progress that has happened, and its byproducts, things like PC culture, the rise of popular secularism, steps closer to equal rights for minorities, women, and the LGBT communities makes these people feel like they are being left behind.
And they are being left behind. It's true that manufacturing jobs are leaving. It's true that drugs like pills and meth are a monster problem in rural areas. It's true that mining jobs are going away. It's true that all over the place, they are seeing people who are not white and not from here doing better than them, and that inspires anger.
But that's not a problem that any presidential candidate can solve, and I am not sure that these people really know that. The problem is the way they set up their infrastructure in the first place. These towns that were built on one industry or one factory or one railway station or one mine---when that's gone, there's a lot of people who are needing jobs where there are none, and they have no money to move away because they were living at the line to begin with. They either don't understand or don't care that drugs are a problem that is not unique to their culture, it's just new. they are not used to dealing with it on this level. It's usually just alcohol, but now it is the invasive destruction of meth and opioids. This scourge has moved from the cities into the country, and they think it's just them that is being forgotten.
Either way, as technology advances and more and more jobs are being taken by computers and the efficiency afforded by them, these issues are only going to grow more severe. Manufacturing jobs are going to continue to be shifted elsewhere where labor is cheap, and when they stay here in the US, there are going to be less and less of the mechanics and machinists needed, and more and more of the engineers and computer scientists needed, which will disenfranchise these people even more.
We are heading towards a labor crisis in this country. Jobs are in the tech industry and the service industry, and soon, in the energy industry. Clean energy is the market demand---and whether we like it or not, there are not going to be enough jobs elsewhere to go around. I don't know what the answer is, but we are going to have to have some sort of major shift in the way we think about jobs and unemployment in this country.
To my understanding, there are two major reasons why voters are voting for Trump.
1) Like my parents, they are all about the Supreme Court. They think that a progressive Supreme Court will be the worst thing that can happen, ever.
2) The social progress that has happened, and its byproducts, things like PC culture, the rise of popular secularism, steps closer to equal rights for minorities, women, and the LGBT communities makes these people feel like they are being left behind.
And they are being left behind. It's true that manufacturing jobs are leaving. It's true that drugs like pills and meth are a monster problem in rural areas. It's true that mining jobs are going away. It's true that all over the place, they are seeing people who are not white and not from here doing better than them, and that inspires anger.
But that's not a problem that any presidential candidate can solve, and I am not sure that these people really know that. The problem is the way they set up their infrastructure in the first place. These towns that were built on one industry or one factory or one railway station or one mine---when that's gone, there's a lot of people who are needing jobs where there are none, and they have no money to move away because they were living at the line to begin with. They either don't understand or don't care that drugs are a problem that is not unique to their culture, it's just new. they are not used to dealing with it on this level. It's usually just alcohol, but now it is the invasive destruction of meth and opioids. This scourge has moved from the cities into the country, and they think it's just them that is being forgotten.
Either way, as technology advances and more and more jobs are being taken by computers and the efficiency afforded by them, these issues are only going to grow more severe. Manufacturing jobs are going to continue to be shifted elsewhere where labor is cheap, and when they stay here in the US, there are going to be less and less of the mechanics and machinists needed, and more and more of the engineers and computer scientists needed, which will disenfranchise these people even more.
We are heading towards a labor crisis in this country. Jobs are in the tech industry and the service industry, and soon, in the energy industry. Clean energy is the market demand---and whether we like it or not, there are not going to be enough jobs elsewhere to go around. I don't know what the answer is, but we are going to have to have some sort of major shift in the way we think about jobs and unemployment in this country.
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