The other 280 million people . . . never to be seen again.
If anything that can be outsourced is outsourced, the it seems that only the most talented lucky few will have high-paying jobs, while everyone else is struggling just to survive. That's a scary prospect, but what can be done to prevent such a dismal outcome?
The United States is allegedly a Republic with democratic elections. Well, it used to be, anyway, but I digress....
The feedback loop in a democracy is the vote. Things get bad enough, people vote to change those things. If that vote is not circumvented by some usurpation like a judicial intervention (like what happened with Proposition 187 in California), then things will sloooowly change until the voters get what they want. The system is set up that way.
You do not see Republicans running around Ohio right now babbling about how Fwee Twade will make everyone's lives All Better. That con is over with, and the voters plan to make sure of that.
And this is why the hapless sucker Johnny McAmnesty is gonna get dumped hard in November. As someone else here pointed out, he's winning with about half the votes that Hillary is losing by. There ain't gonna be no white working class social conservative cross over vote for Johnny, like there was for Reagan. They are going to hold their noses and vote for the Black guy, as long as he promises to do something about their jobs.
There were principled Republicans in this race like Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, and even Huckabee who were willing to talk about saving American industry. Didn't go nowhere, except for Huckabee. That's the dynamics of primaries - you get partisans and ideologues out in force.
And so it goes. Get set for major Democratic majorities. Job security will be the real issue in this campaign, with national security following up. Some people may have different names for these things, but that's where it's going to go.
And it should. If - and when - the neo-Rockefeller wing of the Stupid party gets a clue and realizes that the Free Trade area known as "America" is the only one that counts, then things will change again. Most people really are socially conservative, and even economically conservative (which does not mean "the Chinese Fascists can have our economy 'cuz they work cheaper"); they are not, however, in favor of stoop labor and starvation as a lifestyle.
Free trade as defined by the ideologues was given a try. The results are in for the regular folks: pink slips. The ideologues can yap all they want about how life is still good because things are so cheap, but those goods aren't ever gonna be cheap enough when you're on unemployment.
People will vote with their perceived interests in mind. People who try to sell them a bag of crap will get pounded.
If I were Mad Johnny, I'd be looking for a nice big house in Paradise Valley, somewhere near Barry's old house so he can go on pretending he has something to do with that guy.