This country's economy is a lopsided non-productive joke. A lot of the work done here has nothing to do with anything useful and I don't mean just gov't jobs.If we had ditched free trade in the early 1990s we would be doing great. Now we have millions supported by the Federal gov't because we allowed good middle class jobs to migrate over to Asia. Some Americans got very rich on this. Those are the only rich people I don't like. Those rich free traitors. Many of them live in DC where trade lawyers got rich.
Now we will have computerization, automation, robotics decimating many of the remaining decent paying jobs that free trade did not get to kill. Add open borders, making for even more of a labor surplus.....
But it's not too late to reverse it. Unfortunately I don't see either party talking about this yet.
It's going to take someone who is willing to educate the voters. They already see the stores are full of imports. But a lot of them have been conditioned to think tariffs are bad and caused the Great Depression. When neither is true.
But if a candidate manned up to the task, they could swing a lot of votes to the GOP.
Automation is still coming. But it would be better for Americans to own the automated factories, the automation and be employed in the jobs related to automation.