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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a typical educated and wealthy DC-area striver.  Atheist, support women's right to choose, value the diversity of cultures in this world, etc.  I wouldn't say no to a tax cut, lol.  I'm going to be good whoever gets elected.

We gotta face facts, though. Most of America is not like DC.  It's hugely white, under-educated, under-employed people, who have been truly screwed over by progressive policies.

They have to compete with millions upon millions of lower cost illegal migrants flooding across the borders.  They have been penalized by the color of their skin when applying to college and jobs. Suicide, depression, opioids, wars they have to fight and die in...it has gotten quite bad.

Once upon a time, democrats valued this massive part of America.  Do they still?  Can they?

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The primary competition is with the outside world, IMO, rather than with low-cost immigrants. Even if our southern border had been lock-tight across the last 50 years, with little or no immigration, I think the decline of our manufacturing sector from 1975 onwards would have occurred anyway due to increased international competition. Of course, we could have muted the flow of imports/exports with high tariffs, but the net effect of this would probably have been negative.

I see no way around the problem of competing with low-cost labor in Asia and Mexico. The antidote for rural America and for the rustbelt is to make sure one's children study hard so that they are capable of fully participating in the 21st century economy, rather than waiting for somebody to make-America-great again. We can't roll back the clock 50 years. We go only go forward. The future belongs to those people with a high level of education.[/quote]

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