Trump voters, stop your complaining.

President Trump’s “left behind” voters are their own worst enemies. They didn’t improve their education and job skills, secure a stronger vocation, maintain better health, listen to broader samplings of news media, and vote based on a politician’s legislative record. Now, they want to scatter blame on everyone else as to why they were “left behind.” Well, it was their bad and uninformed decision making. The stark example is clinging to industry jobs that have been doomed for more than 30 years. It wasn’t the news media per se, the U.S. trade policies, the Mexican illegals or any past president that screwed up their lives.

Lastly, they have little understanding of capitalism. The profit motive necessitates cheap cost of goods including cheap labor and efficient production. Like it or not, this is main reason why industry has moved abroad. It’s not primarily taxes, that industry doesn’t pay anyway, or the U.S. trade policies. Average Americans all revel in the cheaper products and care less about where it was made.

So, “left behind” voters stop trying to convince the rest of use that you are a victim. You are actually the perpetrator of your own demise.

Gene Griffin

Waterford