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Trump is a Symptom of a Revolt Against the Status Quo
We live at a time of great social turmoil. The populous is not happy with the establishment. This is hardly limited to the United States. It is a global matter because millions of people around the world have lost a lot of economic and retirement security over the last thirty years. Globalization, like any process, has winners and losers. The American rust belt and West Virginia are some of the major losers in this process. So are the British working classes in former industrial towns, as well as Mexican small farmers.
Globalization ultimately is the end process for human organization systems. If you take a very long view of history, societies have evolved from bands of hunters and gatherers to global connections. Why? We have great efficiencies of trade and global communications. However, the way we achieved this is leaving a lot of people behind, whether it is because industrial jobs moved to cheaper production zones, or robots taking over factory jobs. Due to the climate emergency, we need to change our energy sources as well. This will also leave behind coal miners, and sooner than we expect, the gas patch workers and the oil patch workers. This process is deeply underway in the carbon patches of West Virginia.
People are under pressure because familiar secure well-paying jobs are ending and they see their future at risk…