Thanks, just my own personal experiences.
Sadly, the losers in the 'economy' vote Democrat, straight ticket. That fact that the trade barriers were dropped (for the most part) during during Slick's administration will be lost on them.
Well in a way it's paid off for them, starting with welfare and FDR, although he at least made some of them dig ditches and fill them back up. As you say, they don't have the intellect to understand the issues, and Clinton triangulated them on welfare as well. Guys like Kerry and Gore are their real saviors, thank God the votes in this country kept those guys out of office. But unless the average worker in this country doesn't overcome their fear of their jobs being replaced by overseas slave labor, there could be a resurgence of complete protectionism. I don't favor that at all, my position is simply tariffs against tyranny, and unfortunately the majority of our trade inbalance right now is with communist China.