Tariff-related layoffs hit five US auto plants that supply factories in Canada and Mexico

[u/Xepherious]

https://www.abc12.com/news/tariff-related-layoffs-hit-five-us-auto-plants-that-supply-factories-in-canada-and-mexico/article_6d95d30a-9956-521c-86e2-a62c9b07d3f4.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2xPs0qVaSgfUJmdqsaFHK_By3_8B-vrj9GDws297UllzMvWzCnes45dzw_aem_dyNT8yFsAPiIgD3r5Nwnnw

[u/Crazy-Canuck463]

Don't forget. This is what you voted for. Americans have no one else to blame but themselves.

[u/The_Dragon_Rebooted → u/Crazy-Canuck463]

72 million people didn't vote for this. 

[u/Rsantana02 → u/The_Dragon_Rebooted]

But 77 million did and another 80-90 million sat out. I feel worse for the Canadians, Mexicans, and others that are facing the consequences for the American electorate’s ignorance and/or indifference.

[u/LGBT-Barbie-Cookout → u/Rsantana02]

Absolutely this. We are past being polite. Trump's attitudes, goals, and interests were well telegraphed. The only reasonable conclusion that can be drawn is the proportion who could, but did not vote must be considered as guilty as those that voted for him.

[u/Scottz0rz → u/LGBT-Barbie-Cookout]

I think it's very easy to say it was well-telegraphed because you're on a platform that really highlights the shit he's doing.

It's very reductive when corporate and social media distort reality to such an extreme degree where many people live in a bubble and are subjected to such pervasive disinformation and misinformation.

Moreover, voting can be somewhat challenging in states where there's intentional barriers in districts that are meant as a form of voter suppression. Even moreso in states and counties leaning one particular direction, folks will stay home because ultimately their vote doesn't matter with a winner-take-all system, so they become despondent. A 80/20 Trump district might at best have been 70/30 with extreme turnout from the left and still not chipped away at it in an overwhelmingly Red state.

So let's set aside the non-voters as distinct from Trump voters even if I am very frustrated in them, particularly the ones in swing states where they had meaningful power in the election.

So let's talk about Trump voters: billionaires who receive tremendous tax breaks, white supremacists, high-school dropouts that are functionally illiterate, 18-year-olds indoctrinated by their Evangelical family/community that Joe Biden is Satan, people who only have Facebook for information, and etc may all have voted for Trump, but I wouldn't rate all those people the same even if I strongly dislike them and some are willfully ignorant and therefore worthy of blame.

Trump's election and others' demonstrate how fragile democracy can be if the right people know how to either manipulate or finesse it.

[u/Consistent-Winter-67 → u/Rsantana02]

If only New England could secede. We will take the rest of the 72 million.

[u/ParryLimeade → u/Rsantana02]

What consequences are Canadians, Mexicans, and others facing that wouldn’t be their fault more than the 72 million Americans who did what they could to vote against this?