You did. No workers today know about the 70’s era. They are all retired.
How do you know these are jobs are those that no domestic white workers want?
Because of who and what they vote for. And because of what you can see happening all around you, including in Springfield. Look at who won the county, and all those surrounding rural counties in 2020.
There was no conspiracy to bring thousands of Haitians to Springfield, Ohio. There was no conspiracy involved to keep locals from working at these businesses that employ Haitians. Ohio has a Republican governor, and a General Assembly where Republicans make up 2/3 of both houses. The state minimum wage was not set by Kamala or Joe Biden. If locals(again they're predominantly white, much as you try to argue otherwise) wanted to work under the conditions Haitians are working, they would.
Of course, you're going to say that if somehow Haitians weren't "brought in," then wages would be higher. There is absolutely nothing stopping the legislature or the governor from increasing the minimum wage. They have a supermajority, they can pass what they want. Remember, they were elected and keep getting elected by the very people you are saying are being screwed here. More controversially, there is absolutely nothing stopping the local for working for the same wages Haitian immigrants are working for. The one thing we haven't heard during this story is that Haitians are starving or unable to live on these wages.
You don't have to like globalization, the way it was implemented, or its consequences. I sure have serious issues with a lot of it. We can't undo it, though. All we can do is try to fix the problems that were created with what we have right now in 2024. Yes, politicians promise things, but they promise things because people want to hear those things. That's how you can tell what people want. Politicians, especially ones from the two main parties, aren't so stupid as to promise things no one wants.
We can argue here about the details, and you can keep asking how I know things as if polls aren't done or studies aren't done all the time, and you can make me dig up scholarly articles from 2016 showing why Trump voters voted for Trump, but this all boils down to a simple reality.
It's 2024, and you're just not going to be able to have a high school diploma and own a detached house in a nice suburb with a couple of cars in the garage. Not in a society where almost 2/5 of working Americans have a college degree. It just isn't 1970 anymore.
And there are ways to fix things, there are ways to make things better, but the people in question do
not want any of those solutions. They oppose unions, they oppose increases to minimum wage, they oppose student loan forgiveness. They oppose retraining and they don't want jobs in education or health care. They are against every realistic path to a higher income bracket, and they remained angry they're not in that bracket.
And it becomes the fault of everyone then. Immigrants, college-graduates, gays, Jews, you name it.
