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Quoth Barack: “But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations”
Relax, people.
It’s all good. All the enlightened folk from San Francisco (the center of all reason and moderation) have to do is explain to those poor rubes how Barry will bring in high-paying jobs at the new Gucci factories, open the secret government bins of fairy gold to pay for universal, top-notch health care and research, & etc. Once that message is spread, trailer park Joes will accept him as their personal savior, lose their bitterness, put aside their antiquated belief in God, their plebian concern for more than amendment one, and their naïve expectations of a secure border. Then they join our legions of the rational! Hooray!
