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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
Life expectancy is on the same rise it's been at for decades. Wages and standards of living are down because US businesses are shipping jobs overseas and/or cutting their worker expenses to the bone like they learned how to do during the 2007 crash. Trump has garnered the support he has from the base, who would vote for Hitler rather than a democrat, the bible belt who only care about getting rid of abortion, and the rural states who believe the democrats are going to take away their guns. The remainder of his support is angry and afraid Wonder Bread white Americans who want to place all of the blame on "those other people".
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Of course they've been shipping jobs overseas. Bill Clinton was one of the grand engineers in facilitating that process.
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Originally Posted by Xurtio
Immigration has clear economic consequences and feels socially unfair to people who have been paying into the system their whole lives. Its not always xenophobia.
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Well this is true to, the continued influx of cheap labour into the United States has placed a downward pressure on the wages of unskilled workers, while those in skilled professions have largely been shielded from the economic competition. I am almost certain that this is playing a factor in Trump's overwhelming support amongst white males without college degrees.