America is a sick society

[Eric the Green]

(12-20-2016, 02:42 PM)tg63 Wrote:

(12-20-2016, 01:30 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: ...
I think there is no hope for these people unless they start voting Democratic. Then they can get government help to retrain, re-educate and/or re-locate; if not for themselves, then for their children who can support them. And failing that, guaranteed income from taxes on the robot and machine owners.

Nice in theory but this completely ignores human nature.  When my grandfather had to give up the farm (he wasn't that old, he was around 60), he didn't want to be retrained or re-educated.  His absolute last resort - and he hated doing it - was to relocate to his daughter's family home in the city. His choice was that if he had to be dependent on anyone, it would be his family.

There will be exceptions, but as a rule the young people will move away for work, while the middle aged & older folks will stay put, even if it means subsistence living.

That's why I said that it may be the children and younger folks who can retrain and move, and help and support some of the older members of their family who can't or don't want to. Maybe they can do what young Mexican immigrants do here, and instead of immigrants sending back money from their paychecks to family in Mexico, they will be white state immigrants sending it back to family in Ohio or Wisconsin or West Virginia and Kentucky.

And if the older folks stay, their continued health and existence may also depend on them switching back to voting Democratic, so that the government can help provide for their needs, instead of hanging on to the false ideals of proud self-reliance and putting down others that the Republicans feed them.