seahawk wrote:
Nothing wrong with the 1950ies. Booming Economy, healthy morals in the society, little illegal immigration, freedom and security....
That is, to me, the most tragic and dangerous part about the illusion that Trump, his financiers and the right wing media have created for the American voters. That nostalgic longing for the 50s and 60s where gas was 20 cents a gallon, the whole family could live a comfortable middle class life on daddys paycheck alone, and global warming and deindustrialization weren't even heard of... That's what people imagine, when Trump talks about "making America great again".
That's not going to happen under Trump. He's a man of the 80s and 90s, where greed-driven deregulations and neo-liberal "reforms" - supported by Reps and Dems - eroded the legislation and institutions that formed the foundation of the healthy and growing middle class of the post WWII era. Trump *is* Neo-Liberalism. All his life he has shown egoism, greed, ruthlessness and abuse of power. And now he's supposed to be the guy who stands in for the little man? Take his own company, for example. Do you think the recent tax cuts will make them go: "Oh, great, more money! Let's hand this down to our employees for a change, and help them secure their middle class lifestyle that they're about to lose." No. It's going to be higher returns for shareholders, a healthy raise for the executive level and maybe a new Hotel here and there, with more employees working for the lowest wage possible...
Trump is not going to fix the actual problems of his voter and he's not going to make America "great again" in any way. He might turn the illusion of being in danger of Immigrants, Liberals, Hillary, Muslims (whatever is on the menu today) into an illusion of being safe. But i'm wondering what is going to happen if a 50 years old Trump supporter from the Bible Belt, who is probably white, probably working in an declining industry, might be experiencing a decline in his standard of living, probably brainwashed into thinking it's the liberal's, immigrant's and Obama's fault, with a lot of anger and a lot of guns... is going to figure out that he has been conned by jet another clown of the establishment.