Donald Trump Right, American Workers Are “Mad”
Men and women supporting Donald Trump have reason to be “Mad as Hell”
The US economy turned against them, and policies advocated by Democrats and tolerated by mainstream Republicans make the circumstances worse.
Donald Trump does best with American voters having less education, and the shift away from manufacturing toward service activities really puts them at a disadvantage.
At the turn of the 21st Century, US factories employed more workers than education and healthcare combined or professional and business services.
Today, the latter 2 groups of industries both employ millions more Americans than those making things.
While many positions in education, healthcare and professional and business services pay well, those often require a college or advanced degree or expensive specialized training beyond high school.
And the environment of many factories appeals to men, a lot of jobs in the above in the healthcare and education sectors more appealing to women.
The fortunes of women have been improving, and the nation now confronts a crisis of despondent men.
Nearly 7-M men, between the ages of 25 and 54, are neither employed nor looking for work.
Manufacturing has been a victim of its own success, as productivity growth in manufacturing has outstripped other sectors of the economy creating a natural migration of job opportunities from factories to service.
The international and domestic policies pursued by Presidents dating back to JFKennedy have exacerbated the plight of men without a college degree.
Free trade agreements have been advertised as jobs creators but the facts contradict that claim.
Exports create jobs, imports destroy them.
The United States has a trade deficit on goods and services combined exceeding $500-B. That kills 4-M jobs directly and at least another 2-M from lost spending of workers initially displaced.
Manufacturing accounts for the Lion’s share of the trade gap, especially goods from China and elsewhere in Asia that are often subsidized by national governments and benefit from artificially undervalued currencies.
US Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama have talked about fixing those practices, but the trade agreements they have made make matters worse.
Washington has left assisting manufacturing to the states, which have fewer resources, while it has ramped up subsidies and shifted job opportunities to education and healthcare.
While Mr. Obama and Hillary R. Clinton campaign about a gender gap in pay, a statistical fraud, more boys are dropping out of high school than girls, and colleges now grant about 60% of their degrees to women.
We never hear a peep from Democrats about fixing the gender gap in education.
Instead, they champion programs that would push males out of service jobs where they do well, such as computer coding, and stand idly by, as liberal high-tech executives engineer programs to retrain unemployed women that are closed to men.
The mainstream Republicans have said little about this discrimination or the crisis facing American men.
And so, Donald Trump rails against political correctness, and to men without a college education and the women whose fortunes are linked to them, Hillary Clinton’s endless chanting about gender are like a Red Flag to a Bull.
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