Maybe they realize it’s a bad idea to bring this up
I saw this tweet from Chris Hayes about the Democratic debate last night:
One the central message of the Dem nominee could be: the Trump economy actually sucks. He thinks it's great because he's given all his rich buddies and his family corrupt giveaways, but he's screwed you.
I mean, a GM plant just closed 10 miles away. Maybe talk about that?
12.6K people are talking about this
I want to focus on the last two sentences. I have seen several pundits bring up the fact that the debate was in Detroit and none of the candidates brought up the GM Plant closure.
It is probably a good idea for them to not bring that up.
Where I live in north Alabama, we have a Toyota engine plant, and soon to be a Toyota-Mazda joint plant. There is a Mercedez-Benz plant south of me in Tuscaloosa.
We also have a Polaris Industries plant here, which draws from the same pool of workers.
Then there is Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Blue Origin, Orbital Systems ATK, General Dynamic, and most of the rest of the aerospace sector here.
South Carolina is another huge manufacturing state, BMW and Mercedes-Benz have plants there. So does Boeing.
I used to live in Indiana, which is where Toyota and Subaru both have plants.
Toyota assembles the Tundra in San Antonio, Texas.
So it makes me wonder, why is it that Toyota, Mazda, Subaru, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW can be profitable assembling in mostly southern, Right To Work states, hiring American workers and paying them good wages, while GM had to shut down in Detroit and offshore jobs?
I highly suspect three letters. U. A. W.
A similar issue was the cause for Boeing assembly to expand to South Carolina.
Manufacturing is growing in the United States. It’s just doing it in Right to Work states, often south of the Mason-Dixon.
That is a hard circle to square for Democrats. The unions that support them are the ones driving the jobs away and the Red states are sucking them up.
It’s easier for the Democrats to ignore that and look the other way than tackle that, so they won’t talk about it.
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