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olegramps

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18. I didn't say that it wasn't civil.
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 11:18 AM
Jun 2018

We know, even by her own admission, that Clinton neglected to campaign more in areas heavily hit by the loss of manufacturing jobs. This allowed a demagogue to exploit the issue with ludicrous unchallenged promises that he could easily rectify the situation.

We know that outsourcing is not the major reason for the loss of jobs, but automation which account for 85% of loss jobs. The Industrial Revolution is over and not coming back. We need leaders who grasp the problem and have the tools to actually provide solutions to met the demands that the information age will require.

In our district we have been seeking financing to support younger people who have a better understanding and far more at stake in this new age to met the challenge. This is a real problem since how can a younger person with the need to make a basic living succeed in politics. Isn't it a fact that many in office are independently wealthy? This is what I mean by new and younger blood. I am certainly not discounting the value of the experience and knowledge of the system and its unique challenges. Politics can, unfortunately, be a very dirty business at times especially dangerous in times such as now when a vicious demagogue is in control and a major source of the new media is controlled by ideologues. This period in many ways mirror the era of the situation in the 1930's not identical by analogous ones.

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