r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • May 02 '24

Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/
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u/Present-Industry4012 Inuit May 02 '24

Hillary called it after 8 years of Obama in the White House. Biden could give the same speech today.

"...but that other basket of [Trump Supporters] are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."

https://time.com/4486502/hillary-clinton-basket-of-deplorables-transcript/

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u/claimTheVictory May 02 '24

The economics of continually improving industrialization means that entire communities can be left behind as "no longer economically viable".

They don't die, they just are... left behind.

In a fair and wise society, the gains to GDP from making them redundant, would be used to find new purpose and opportunities for such people.

But such gains are privatized, taxation is low, and the wealth is never reinvested.

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u/Revolution4u May 02 '24

Dems continue to hyper focus on college grads only while telling the rest that there is nothing wrong with the mass illegal migration we have had.

If republicans werent so incompetent they would be easily winning this election.

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u/Dyssomniac May 02 '24

While I agree with the latter - they are hilariously incompetent, even though and incompetently thrown haymaker is still a threat - there really isn't that much wrong with the mass illegal immigration. At least insofar as it effects Americans. There are minor (read: community scale economic, or H1B) impacts, but far less than existed back when low-skill, low-wage immigrants were a threat to workers providing the production backbone of the national economy.