[gumaflux]

Someone loose their job because there's a change in global economic structures. Another group of people lose their business of selling ice for house hold refrigeration.

The problem is not globalisation or change, its the idea and related political deception that somehow if there are protectionist barriers the emergence of new suppliers, products, new skills, new ideas will go away.

This is but one of several of similar distorted perceptions of reality that underpins the faulted democratic systems. If Society and government should facilitate something it's increased adaptability and acceptance for change, rather than selling the fraud that they can take it away.

[braveo]

No one was paying these people any mind, that's why Hillary lost.

It doesn't matter if those particular jobs aren't coming back, this is something that people do not get.

Guess which region of the country both the republics and democrats will be catering too for the next 4 to 8 years?

Exactly. They got what they wanted, which is to be listened to.

Stop putting this down as them simply being yokels who don't know any better.

[chillacy]

I don't think the parent was calling them yokels who don't know any better. Rather hinting at the idea that every piece of government policy helps one group and hurts another.

Globalization clearly hurts manufacturing in america, but it helps some of our export industries.

It's not entirely zero-sum, but looking at the stock market these past few days (decrease in tech, increase in manufacturing banking and energy) implies that we've picked some new favorite industries.

Personally I don't think government should aim to handout success to those who vote for them, but democracy seems to encourage that. I think ideally the people who work hardest should reap the most success. Reality of course isn't fair, so the government is there to even the playing field.