Monday is three months to the US presidential election, an election many believe will be decided in the so-called pivotal states in the northeastern “Rust Belt”, where everyday life is turned upside down for many citizens in recent years.
“Rust belt” is a not clearly defined area, but big cities New York and Chicago are often cited as extremes, although they are less large cities as Pittsburgh and Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland are the most typical.
the former industrial towns, based on iron and steel, manufacturing and mining are no longer what they were.
World changed in the 1960s and 70s, the consequences were clear about 80s and 90s, after the millennium, it has been full crisis.
Globalization and automation are key. Instead of producing it, the United States began to buy goods in other countries, where wages were lower, unions weaker and profits higher.
Meanwhile, the many features of productions redundant. Smarter machines and advanced machines – without lunch breaks, vacation plans and retirement plans – took over many of the tasks. Hundreds of thousands of workers were called redundant. They were dismissed. Those who quit or moved, was not replaced.
The disputed presidential candidate gets a warm welcome from those who have found their way to Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg.
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Areas of resolution
the once-important towns in Ohio and Pennsylvania, Michigan and called Upstate New York, and partly in West Virginia, Indiana and Wisconsin have no further work to offer its citizens.
the result is what urban planners call “urban prairie”, overgrown gardens and orchards, houses disappearing in bushes and undergrowth , homes that dissolves, broken windows, stolen doors, unpainted walls and leaky roof.
There are no buyers. Even the prices are ridiculously low. In Detroit you get a house for 50,000 crowns, it is less than what it costs to demolish it.
Many of those remaining who have neither job or anywhere to go, resort to violence and crime , drunkenness and drugs.
White men make up Trumps core voters. They see him as their economic savior in a society that no longer has the same use of their powers.
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Lost democratic territory
They were part of “the American Way of Life.” Now they have lost faith in the future, politicians in general and Democratic candidates in particular.
In the past industrial cities in the “Rust Belt” Democratic heartland. But many of these voters have either moved elsewhere or lost hope, so that they now want to try something new.
And they like what they hear, according to Thom Hartmann, journalist, commentator and radio host, born and raised in the so-called “Rust belt”.
– with my Michigan-white man had on, so I think that 70, 80, 90 percent of those I grew up with, see and hear what Trump say and think “yes, this is my candidate,” explains Hartmann in Thom Hartmann Program.
Republican presidential candidate will reopen the mines. “Coal is the future” and “I’ll get the miners back to work” trumpeted Donald Trump visiting the “Rust Belt”.
Hillary Clinton also promising gold and green forests. But it requires restructuring and investment, willingness to innovate and the ability to put up with modern technology, be creative, innovative and proactive.
But former industrial workers with low education do not see themselves with a PC in an office, as a guard at a hypothetical water park or at the counter at the conference center has not yet been adopted. And they do not believe in candidate Clinton’s slogan of “stronger together”.
Earlier could generations rely on the big industrial belt had work to offer. Not so anymore and now seeking voters for a candidate who can bring the world they knew and grew up in the back.
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Black Peter
Many of the former workers in heavy industry came late to the United States, as immigrants from Eastern Europe. Their descendants still form the bedrock of the “Rust Belt”.
They did not always higher education because they were secured good jobs in industry. They served well, unions were strong, they had guarantees and social benefits.
They were part of the working class, “the Working Men and Women of America” as the politicians say. But they lived a good life materially and was part of what the politician language called “the Middle Class.”
They were involved in building the country, but feel that they are left holding the bag . For them, wages went down, to make the wheels go round, they must have two or more jobs. But they are not always so easy to get.
They grew up in significant prosperity and is now experiencing poverty and hopelessness. They are proud and many socially conservative: Not being able to provide for his family is a shame for a man. There is nothing they would rather.
So you see and hear that parties pander to new groups: Black youth in the so-called “inner cities” latinos in the south Asians on the West Coast and all possible in states with immigration and new voters in the middle.
But every four years is the good enough. Then the candidates and make themselves attractive. Politician contempt growing hatred of Washington D.C. is real.
Next comes a candidate who is different. That speaks differently.
They have been on so many without it helped. They have nothing to lose by giving Trump a chance. And so it is wonderful to be able to send the established elitépolitikerne a clear message: We do not believe you!
Donald Trump signing one of many choices poster. Millionaire son has hit the industrial workers with his message.
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