Gee, do you think outsourcing our industrial base to the third world and communist countries had anything to do with it? How about the open border? How does a teen get started if the brown wave soaks up all the lower wrung jobs? Gardening and dish washing were never meant to be careers.
That’s true. Whether we like it or not, most people of any class don’t have the tendency to stray from their cultural norms, and if nobody in Fishtown has useful work they’re eventually going to be useless citizens. The left wants to keep uselessness viable as the alternative is distasteful to them, and if we want to fix it (do I? undecided) we’ll have to come up with a counter-point that doesn’t sound like “conservatives want the poor to die” (according to the media).