Monday, August 22, 2016

Disappointing Trump voters

If by some fluke Trump should win, millions of his followers will be terribly disappointed.  I am not sure if they have thought through a Trump victory.  They seem to be reacting to slogans with little thought about reality.  Here is a dose of reality.

Manufacturing is not coming back.  Bethlehem Steel is not coming back.  Robotics and automation mean that old-fashioned factory jobs are gone forever.  This is not only true of the U.S., but also of China and India.

Coal is not coming back.  The economics aren’t there.  Sorry West Virginia and Kentucky.

Climate issues will continue, and the sea will continue to rise.  Pretending a problem doesn’t exist does not make it go away.  

The wall will not be built.  I mean, really?

Eleven million undocumented residents will not be deported.  Won’t happen.  

The drug problem will not disappear.  If anything, it will get worse.

The U.S. will lose credibility in foreign affairs and be weakened internationally.  Other countries will begin to take advantage of our weakness within six months.  


America will no longer be great.  It will be a joke.  People who got caught up in the Trump bandwagon will feel like the British after the vote to leave the European Union.  They will wonder how they could have been so stupid.  I’m already wondering that.

2 comments:

  1. Any intelligent knows that is true. Things really never go back to what they were. Time marches on.

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  2. Note your word "intelligent." That's the whole problem with Trump supporters.

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