October 18, 2020

Most people know why the jobs left and why they aren't coming back; but Trump doesn't. He assumes he can bring the jobs back based on the assumption that no one else wants to, not because they have better understanding than he does.

So he tells people he is going to bring the jobs back; and it's surprising how many gullible fools believe him. It's just as surprising how many assume he has the slightest competence in making such decisions. He doesn't look like a competent person and his history leaves no mystery about it. He has never studied enough of the right subjects or acquired the experience needed to leave him with the slightest ability to clean a dog house.

Trump's four years of bumbling shows nothing other than that. Yet his base still wants four more years of the same. Didn't they notice that his methodology is to erase ordered existence and social structures including governmental processes? Or do they assume such a process will bring the jobs back after Trump obliterates ordered existence?

How could conservatives have missed the fact that the jobs they knew disappeared before the factories were "off shored"? The process wasn’t a moving process. It was a redesign of industry process. The factories needed to modernize. That means, industry needed new buildings, new equipment, new types of jobs and numerous additional workers which did not exist domestically.

Not only were factories changing to higher technology, they needed to sell to all 195 countries, not just 50 states in the U.S. Expanding production required a lot more workers and larger factories. New factories had to be built someplace, and there was no possibility of doing so in the U.S. Bringing back something that never was possible in the U.S. is never going to happen.

Conservatives don't know that; and they are going to put blue collar workers back to work making outdated technology for one tenth of the consumers? They can never get a story straight for doing that, so Trump makes a stab at it without attempting to get a story straight, and that does the trick.

What Trump shows is that a total abandonment of credibility is needed to bypass rationality. Being stupider than usual is supposed to make him more of an answer to problems than usual.

Assuming that someone took auto jobs away from the U.S. is not factual. There has been a continual increase in auto production in the U.S. for decades along with increased exports of autos.

Just because Mexico is building autos doesn’t mean they took jobs from the U.S. A lot more autos are needed due to an expanding global economy. The autos can’t all be produced in the U.S. The autos move in both directions across borders for efficiency reasons, not because someone is being unfair to “Americans.”

Trumpers probably wonder why not do all of that in the U.S. There are about three billion people doing that around the world. They don't exist in the U.S. The population of the U.S. is about 330 million. Allowing some immigrants in would help somewhat, but conservatives assume immigrants are part of the problem. The immigrants supposedly took away the jobs. It was too few workers, not too many, that was the problem.