Why the white working class is alienated and pessimistic

America has been dumbed down and outsourced. All those people with degrees doesn't mean they know anything. I am a university graduate but I received a better education in high school than my granddaughters receive at university now. Having a skilled trade is looked down on by elites who can't change a lightbulb. Unions have made a joke out of the word craftsman. We can't go back in time but we can take some of the best things from the era of our parents and grandparents and start doing something right. For one, get the academics out of the government and make them perform at a real job for a while before they think they know everything. Bring back craftsmanship and apprenticeships. Let's stop making things that will break in 90 days and add to the trash heap. Let's do more with less and have some pride in workmanship. Let's make ethics a mandatory course in all high schools. Let's do something before it is just too late.

laine25 wrote:This is why I try to buy "made in America" products but everything is made in China. We need manufacturing here in the US. This is the problem. Had a computer problem and called to a person in India...could not even understand her. These jobs need to come back to the US. All of us are suffering as a result. I am disgusted by it all.