If Trump dodges debates...

[franklin]

It's obvious why Trump is appealing to so many swaths of voters economically hurting in America.

Do you really think that is what it is?

I think Trump's appeal is directed toward typical bar room rantings. Go inside any predominantly white bar in America and you will likely hear the same nonsense Trump spouts off. "Boarder fence", "they took our jobs", "stop policing the world", etc. The Trump Base IMO is your typical uneducated white American voter. In fact, I'm surprised he hasn't been spouting off about energy independence.

 

[franklin]

I see it like this.

You can care about American's earnings, you care about foreign worker's earning, or you can have free trade.. Pick two/can't have all three.

Phalacy. We have all three because of trade.

^pun intended

 

[Dr. Jones]

There's no such thing as completely "free" trade, so we've already not picked that one.

Right now it's more of a "pick legislations that secure the growth of what we call "job-creators" with the hope that their expanding economic empires will eventually trickle down to the lower classes-- and this applies to both domestic and foreign investment & corporations.

You know I didn't mean "free" trade in its purest sense.

It just bugs me when the have-their-cake-and-it-too crowd gets holy.