JesseEwiak
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You guys realize you are arguing against the policies that formed the backbone of the Democratic party pre-1990s right? Back to 1910s at least. This is what people mean when they say that Regan shifted the whole country to the right in the eighties . And this is also supposed to be one of its core principles today . It is fact that the middle class is shrinking. It is fact that wages in the US are falling. And this isn't about automation. It has been shown time and time again that as technology takes away jobs through automation it also creates them. This is about globalization.
Bad economic policies shouldn't be part of Democratic policy, no matter how long they've been part of the party (and even that is overstating it - there's always been a strong free trade faction within the DNC and trade liberalization has been going on since the end of World War II.
Look, I'm not saying remove all barriers and don't put any pressure on large multinational companies. But, I'm saying that no, manufacturing jobs aren't coming back even if Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders wins, starts a trade war with China, and he gets a supermajority in Congress.
Globalization was inevitable. What we need to help the middle class in the US is protect workers in these new service jobs, not look back to the 1950's. A cashier or a call center worker can be a well paid job with benefits just as an assembly line workers was in 1960.