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NAFTA really destroyed the middle class and middle america.
by nerpderp82 5y ago
NAFTA really destroyed the middle class and middle america.
- chrisseaton 5y agoThe middle class are the ones who are doing fine or great. It's the working class who got screwed over.
- nerpderp82 5y agoWorking class was middle class.
- chrisseaton 5y agoIf you're middle class, with stocks, a professional job, your own house, you probably have been doing absolutely fine over the last couple of years. It's everyone else who's in trouble.
- willcipriano 5y agoNAFTA was a symptom of globalism more generally. What we ended up with is selective globalism. Want to import cheaper drugs from Canada, that's illegal! Yeah sure they might have been produced in the US in the first place but it might be dangerous! Want to get a degree in a country where the price of education is lower? We won't honor it. Want to hire the services of a Kenyan clinic doctor who has experience in everything from treating runny noses to gunshot wounds? Illegal he's unqualified according the the national doctors union (AMA). Yeah you can get cheap crap from places that hire children to work in their factories, but the stuff that is really expensive we are 1700's Japan all of the sudden.
- mark_l_watson 5y agoI argue that there is a larger effect: Bill Clinton making the decision that the Democratic Party turn its back on blue collar workers and the middle of the country because just having Wall Street support would be sufficient to win elections. He was not wrong, but it has had a bad effect because the republicans also started to ignore the working class in favor of the financial class. Nationalism, something to be avoided, occurs when the underclass is not represented in a political system.
- spacemanmatt 5y agoBill Clinton did not give Republicans the idea to ignore blue collar workers. He got it from them.