From: Gabe Menezes I have read that 46% of the registered voters didn't vote, never mind 40% of the American population!
--------------- It is true that 46% of the electorate were so apathetic that they could care less who is in the White House while the rest of the country is fretting about the next President. Yet political parties have to take a hard look at the practical aspects of their policies instead of just repeating the same mantra of the print and TV pundits and Talking Heads. Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama going all-out with international trade treaties did not endear the Democratic Party establishment to the industrial heartland in the mid-west which was the back-bone of the Democratic Party. It is surprising the Democrats the party of the working class did not see the dislocation the trade treaties have on the working class in this country and the working class in other countries in the trading block. Additionally these job and family economic disruptions are among the major factors causing illegal immigration to America (who is shipping cheap corn and agricultural products to Central America). Yet thanks to President Trump we are likely to see a lowering of taxes and an end to inheritance tax. Now you know why the upper and middle class have a real incentive to vote. Regards, GL
