2016 Postmortem

Hillary's problem was that Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are three states where ther have been heavy losses in manufacturing jobs, yet the inaccurate polls led everyone to believe those states were in the bag.

The people those states don't want offers of retraining for those who lost their jobs (themselves, family members, neighbors, friends, etc). They want those jobs back because they paid very well, especially for people who have only high school educations or less less. However, it isn't going to happen. And it isn't going to happen precisely because those jobs can done by machines or elsewhere for a lot less money. There are people on those states who are angry because they know those jobs are gone forever.

Not that long ago it took an average of 25 people working in production to produce $1 million dollars worth of goods. Today that number averages out, after adjusting for inflation to 6 people to produce the same amount of goods.