ABC news had a chart up earlier that showed the majority of Americans disapproved of Mueller's investigation. Fox News is having the intended effect. Mueller, a once highly respected lifelong Republican and the only FBI director to serve an extended term, has been smeared and branded a traitor by his party.
...and this wasn't a biased/slanted poll? I have trouble believing that. The GOP base, sure, I can buy that. But, majority disapproval (seemingly including centrists and leftists) seems a bit odd.
More concerned with the 31% of people who strongly approved of him.
"Nearly" isn't good enough, it should be all of them or at the least, 90%
Proper education being a privilege there I can't say I can blame them
What's sad is that the Trump presidency has probably reinforced the common stereotype in my country that "all Americans are loud, dumb and obnoxious".
Because when you see a Trump rally on television, you're literally seeing the literal manifestation of that stereotype congregated to support Trump, who also fits the stereotype quite well.
It's reinforced the stereotype in my country
its hard to explain just the sheer magnitude of the death of good paying manufacturing jobs in the US. Towns used to have factories employing tens of thousands of people. their fathers worked there, they worked there, then the factory closed.
That's what I think is driving ohio further right for example because there are some huge factory towns that are just devoid of employment. the damning thing is that ohio will have had 12 years of a bloody red government and won't have done a damn thing to fix it because they vote for them en mass
Mostly just older people who see Trump as a ticket back to the "good old" past where blacks and women were property, and you could freely lynch either without repurcussions.
still going to win in 2020, can't wait :)
This is what's happened to much of rural America, and even some cities (Detroit being the flagship example), and there's no solution in sight. No party cares enough to touch on it, the GOP just uses that sorrow for votes and the Democrats don't care about anything outside of the major cities.
It's because the west let corporations/capitalism do what they want, industry/manufacturing went to third world countries like china, african nations, philippines etc and the people enjoyed cheaper goods made by sweat shops/child labour and modern-day slavery. This was all at the expense of industry/manufacturing infrastructure we removed and no longer have (Couldn't compete with the lower quality, cheap imports). Now that those third world countries are becoming first world and rich, western economies are failing to maintain this standard of living they have enjoyed, living like kings while people made goods for pennys and the corporations cashed in. Say what you want about trump but his attack on china is to bring industry back some of that to the USA. This lifestyle of cheap goods was only ever going to be short term.
Sure enough, with China now a major world super-power and rich, instead of realising this problem and changing/adapting to it, the west and it's corporations are moving their industry/manufacturing to other third world, poverty stricken countries such as pakistan and bangladesh, you will notice many clothes now being made them instead of china. The biggest most recent shock to the western world was China banning importation of trash, western countries do not have the infrastructures anymore to deal with the trash they produce and it was simply cheaper to dump it all in china than deal with it themselves.
If this is TLDR for you, basically the sun is setting on the west, cheap consumerist culture is going to end and either with a big bust/depression or the west adapts and brings back industry/manufacturing to avoid that.
One step at a time. We've stemmed the bleeding.
there's a lot that could be achieved with some simple regulations that would shut down a lot of the offshoring of basic commodities like pharma precursors or petro chem feedstocks. the dod is already in the process of creating a list of these materials for the next defense bill. Shipping subsidies are also a big issue that drove much of the offshoring but all the major asian economies have soured to pouring hundreds of billions into these giant shipping companies. this is good for us as shipping prices can't stay this low as fuel costs will have to go up in response to climate change and the loss of these subsidies.
What Trump is doing isn't going to bring back jobs. the tariffs won't last forever, nor will the supply chain particularly care. there's a lot of jobs being created today in manufacturing its just they're created through a web of contractors and staffing agencies that make unionizing all but impossible and don't really drive wage growth like a traditional union does nor do they particularly protect their workers.
I can't remember the specifics but there is a concept that a certain amount of people are going to support someone regardless of anything they do. Nixon still managed a 24% approval rating the day he resigned.
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