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In reply to the discussion: I think I have woken up in bizarro world... [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)18. Trump, and the paleo-Left, are wrong about trade
That's the short version of what's going on.
The long version is that this election cycle is a good cycle for selling middle-aged white people on the false promise that the economy they knew in the 1960s and 1970s (which they mostly misremember) can come back. It can't, no more than the agrarian economy their grandparents pined for can.
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Guess it's a good thing they are a slowly fading minority voting block then, huh?
giftedgirl77
Jun 2016
#23
We don't have a vision for the same America-yesterday, today or tomorrow.
Baitball Blogger
Jun 2016
#36
The clear problems I find are that foreign governments can bring litigation
onecaliberal
Jun 2016
#10
I have also seen posts praising corporations and the elites as things the 99% can't live without.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2016
#9
It is hilarious. I listened to Trump speak today, and at least notionally
Dreamer Tatum
Jun 2016
#14
CaptainSensible is not the one in the bubble, as he/she has accurately recounted what has occurred.
1StrongBlackMan
Jun 2016
#31
How long before we have to train our replacements that are willing to work for min. wage?
modem77
Jun 2016
#19