Re:Suicide rates climbing, especially in rural America
by UncleMeat on Sunday September 08, 2019 @02:15PM
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What's the alternative? Yes, education opportunities won't solve things fully. Yes, it is immensely difficult to change careers successfully later in life, especially if you are already financially insecure.
But it seems like all the right is offering is a false enemy to hate (immigrants, globalism) and empty sentiment rather than a policy. "Education doesn't solve my problems so I'll choose to hate immigrants" isn't exactly an especially helpful belief system. Trump can't bring the factories back. Heck, he is even hurting farming with tariffs.
Wow, tone deaf.
When you reach 40-50, look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if you really want to drop your career, start retraining in an entirely new field, and try to find a job against younger folk fresh out of school. I sure as hell don't (and I have an elite education!) and I would wager that most college-educated people don't, let alone everyone else.
And then there's the people who, you know, didn't actually enjoy education and were relieved when they got out of high school, a.k.a. the vast majority of the population. You think they actually want to go back to school?
> What could I help to advocate for that would help, without making presumptuous assumptions about needs?
Our unwanted President at least knows what to say, even if he can't/won't accomplish it: "JOBS, JOBS, JOBS" (https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/11471503334849167...). People living hand-to-mouth do not give a hoot about anything but ensuring a stable (and hopefully growing) paycheck, so nearly nothing on the progressive platform is of interest to them.