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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read some article a while ago about how this really poor southern town, predominately white, hated Democrats, but most of these folks were on welfare.  This would be what OP is referring to.  I'm Asian, well to do, Republic-turned-Independent (thanks Bush), and I don't understand why these folks hate Democrats so much given that most Republicans always want to cut welfare.[/quote]

Why were they on welfare?    Because they didn't want to work (love democrats) or because there were no jobs (Trump will fix).   Get it?[/quote]

It was under the Reagan administration when the factory jobs started going down south.. get it?  And some of these people are generational welfare recipients. Even if they do want jobs, they don't want to have to work for it, as in get an education.  In a free market economy, companies have the right to move their ops anywhere they want to.   But, they want the gov't to change the laws so they can have those jobs where you move a widget from point a to point b then push a button; get good healthcare and a pension.  So, they want a President, ie, the gov't, to get all those things for them.

So, it's not that they don't like big gov't, it's that they want big gov't when it suits them, but not when it doesn't suit them.

Get it?[/quote]

Yes, you are correct that the jobs started to diminish under Reagan, then Bush, then Clinton who helped it along with NAFTA, then Bush and Obama.    What all those have in common is that they are republican or democrat CAREER politicians.  Many of those supporting Trump are not labeling him as Bush III, but rather an outsider who is a successful businessman who has and will create good paying jobs.   They want neither democrat or traditional republican.

any who want jobs have high school educations and cannot find decent opportunities.   Labeling them as uneducated is a stretch.[/quote]
But having a President who will somehow get companies to bring back manufacturing jobs is not capitalism.  It's gov't inserting itself.  So, all those Trump supporters who hate that gov't is getting too big, meddling, are saying that they do want the gov't to meddle, but only if it benefits them.

The days of good jobs for low skilled workers are gone.  Do people want us to go back to the 50's when these types of jobs were plentiful?  In order to get a good paying job these days you either need a college education or some training in a specific field.  What is the definition of "poorly educated" -- not having a HS diploma would fit into this category.  So, these folks want good paying jobs with benefits but not have to even finish HS?  That is what I call entitled, and this is partly what's killing America.[/quote]

Some people, genetically, just are not academics and never will be.  They can be very nice people, very talented with physical work, but just never will write essays on "catcher in the rye".  What should those people do?  Just crawl under a rock and die?[/quote]

Since there are no good jobs for those people who may great at using their hands, they will just have to be on welfare for life, seek more government programs championed by the left, apply for Obamacare and thank him for it, and consistently vote democrat.[/quote]

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