“The offshoring / importing of Mexicans/H1-Bs took place in the blink of an eye, compared to the life of a community, or even one person’s career and time to retrain”
TRUER words!!!
Let’s connect TC’s dots: working class people fell apart because they lost their religion and were overtaken by Iniquity which had been presaged for thousands of years and recorded in the Good Book.
The no holds barred, take it any way yuh can version of Capitalism pushed by the Bankster gangs and purist Libertarians had nothing to do with it, right? Open Borders and lowest cost of production outsourcing are part and parcel of Adam Smith’s received wisdom, and no one must question it.
The bodies left on the side of the road by the barreling train of Maximum Profit are just collateral damage, a regrettable but necessary part of the race to maximum prosperity for those who raced to the head of the pack. No need to worry about them. Just bury them and move on.
If it takes wholesale replacement of the populace to achieve theoretical max GDP, so be it. We’re here for the economy, not the other way around, right?
Get used to the relatives falling off the traincars, and learning to luv your new neighbors Srivastava and Miguel. They’re your betters now because they fit into the economic theory better then you or your silly 10th generation American relatives. They didn’t get the game! Silly them! Oh Well.
Sorry. I’ve lived the whole damn nightmare. Seen the West go from lilly white, placid, inexpensive, UNCROWDED, optimistic and happy to hyper crowded, multi-lingual, hyperexpensive and sinister with humans who have NO social connection to each other living uneasily next door to each other, waiting for the inevitable clash of “civilizations”. In quotes because referring to the troglodyte Third World cultures that are commonplace here now is to stretch the meaning of the word to say the least.
The people who lost out in these changes which were literally shoved down their throats - the death of the timber industry in Oregon, for example, by government fiat - were the Ignorables who are *gasp* white Deplorables and therefore expendable.
NO ONE in the government cares what happens to them and in fact they want them gone so they can concentrate on ministering to the needs of the new imports who they consider Victim Minorities and therefore Saintly, far more deserving.
If the pillbillies wanna kill themselves off, let’s not stand in the way - let’s accelerate it. Yay Kate Brown! Off to the Transgender Liberation Day celebration! Forget those losers, they live in trailers!
And that’s what’s happening, folks.
DJT is the finger in the dike. Apres Don, Le Deluge.
Maybe we can buy some time with one more term, but....
Thank you for elaborating on your ideas. It’s all been very interesting.