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[quote=Anonymous]This comment on the article below is pretty hard braking:

Very similar story here on the Iron Range in Minnesota.  Formerly strong blue collar factory economy, former strongly democratic and pro-union, and mostly white.  Used to be a democrat stronghold, but veered heavily towards Trump.  Also extremely hard hit by heroin crisis.  These people are mostly friends, family, and former co-workers.  I've been watching the slow-motion train wreck for 20 years. 
Even though I live and work with them, having studied computer science, I haven't lived the same reality they have.  I began my career in the R&D department of an Iron Range manufacturing company.  Regrettably, part of my job was building the machines that replaced low-skilled workers.  [b]Workers blame trade deals and whatever politicians are in office[/b], but it was me, and their own fault for not knowing how to do other things.  The rise of Trump and heroin epidemic are really both born out of the same problem, there are no longer high-paying jobs for people without a higher education.
It is really a blow from two sides.  People working in factories end up with a lot of chronic repetitive motion injuries.  Exactly the stuff opioid pain killers are used for.  Take away their job and they lose access to their pain meds.  So you have a lot of people already dependent on opioids, who are now depressed and broke.  They turn to the illegal drugs to replace their expensive medical care, and to escape their mounting financial problems.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wilkes-barre-faces-heroin-scourge-turning-it-most-unhappy-place-n699541

The go back and forth between parties, swaying the elections here and there, but there really is no hope.[/quote]

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