Whatever...

According to Politico Barak Obama had this to say:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small
towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's
replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush
administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these
communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or
religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment
or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

There simply is no way people are upset at the facts like these:

• By 1997, 3 years after it was signed, over 394,000 jobs were lost in the USA due to NAFTA


• A Catholic nun was killed in Klamath Falls by an Illegal Alien who served only 16 months in a mexican prison before being released.


• "Since the passage of that measure (NAFTA), the United States has lost half of its textile mill jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics."


• It takes going to the supreme court to retain your constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

And why is it a bad thing for people to cling to their religion in times of adversity? Perhaps there would be more jobs for people if things such as the Endangered Species Act wasn't as oppresive to farmers and taxes weren't imposed under the guise of education and public safety to cover pork spending (Specifically the $77.5M Light Rail - MAX line extension in Portland).

Heaven forbid...