re: #485 Blind Frog Belly White

I guess for me it boils down to the middle of America wanting the return of things that will never come back. Coal. Steel. Labor-intensive manufacturing. Basically returning to the economy of the 1940s-1970s.

That is not possible, no matter how much you may wish it were. And nobody stole it. It didn’t move to China or Mexico.

Sadly, it seems no one has the courage to explain that the immediate post-WWII jobs environment isn’t coming back. It was a unique moment in history, to be sure, but the world has changed immeasurably since then.