The American people have to decide what kind of Government they want, one that recreates the robber baron age and says maybe you can get a job or one that guarantees certain standards for all.
During the age of industrialization you had the growth of slums and ghettos and millions of people living in abject poverty, working for survival wages and often at risk for deadly diseases that killed or crippled millions.
There were some periods of prosperity but those periods did not help everybody, just the more fortunate.
This was during a time when manual labor was the only real way to get things done and still wages were barely sufficient to sustain life.
Of course some bettered themselves, but many couldn't until the Unions and the new deal led to a period where the working person started to earn a living wage and had a bit of a safety net that provided some support in periods of unemployment and a small pension in old age.
This is the period that most people envision when they hear the slogan, "Make America Great Again" and the dotard promises to bring back those jobs and open those mines.
Of course his policies do the very opposite as they rip apart the social safety net and endanger social security and Medicare.
He say they don't but they do.
America of the future is going to be very different from the America of the past, but to achieve that future we need to accept that its training and skills which lead to success.
Automation is replacing the unskilled and semi-skilled labor.
Its continuing and giving business more profits will only allow the pace to pick up.
Address the world of tomorrow or fantasize about the past, the choice is ours and while fantasy is easy, it just lasts a little while.
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