What the fuck happened, Sup Forums?

look at that image.
that is an image which symbolizes a mid 20th century america.
a country who is proud of her blue collar residents.
from coal miners, to ironworkers, crane operators and truck drivers, america knows what they have done and are grateful.

and think about the public military of that age.
the pride in the nation's military. from nukes to artillery to carriers, america was proud of her military might.
there was nothing better than working and being blue collar.
nothing better than a good, honest job which needed some elbow grease.
there was no stigma about joining the military. it was welcomed and congratulated.

but that was then.
now we are not proud of the blue collar. we are not grateful towards those who wear hard hats and work boots.
we do not care for our military with the same zeal we did.
everybody wants that instant gratification of fame and wealth, but nobody wants to work.
if you tell someone you're an ironworker or a roughneck, you get the response of "ew, really?"
these jobs, honest and true, are now forgotten and even vilified.

what the fuck happened to america?
why are we not a proud and hard working nation?
why are we a mass of people who want instant gratification whose goal is to never be a provider, but a dependent.

most importantly, even more than the whys and whens of this, its how we fix it.
how do we make america what it once was?

how do we make america great again?

A

FUCKING

TRAIN

Its over.

1950s and 1960s American passenger train engines are some of the most sleek and beautiful machines ever created. They're symbolic. Santa Fe F7As are so beautiful...

but do you understand the symbolism behind it?
it may just be a mass of metal to you but to americans it has quite a symbolic significance.

really figured this would pick up more considering Sup Forumss whole MAGA thing and hard on for cold war america
sorry for wasting your time i guess

NAFTA, basically.

Thank Bill Clinton, the first truly black president.

Font worry, OP. Trump will bring those jobs back to America. He will Make America Great Again.

I think women actually have a lot to do with it. Back before globalization and automation these jobs used to be a strong path to the middle class, and therefore men who did them were seen as attractive. After de-industrialization, women (specifically the middle class women that control popular culture) saw that these jobs lead to nothing but a lower class existance as opposed to "clean cut" jobs that were now the new path to wealth. They therefore preferentially chose clean cut, white collar men. This then rubbed off on society as a whole.

>there was nothing better than working and being blue collar.nothing better than a good, honest job which needed some elbow grease.


Lol this is so gay

Not really. I made bank mowing lawns. My cousin got a sweet first job putting in gaskets down at the factory. Another cousin had fun times at the fish plant to get started.

Now we all do much more advanced things. But other folks from the family still work decent hardworking jobs.

>Destroy blue collar class (vilify with terms like bogan and redneck, reduce liveable wage compared to white collar, ship jobs overseas)
>Force people to go through college to get a white collar job
>Indocrinate in college
>Eventually no working class
>Choice is import, work, or have society collapse
>most people are now prissy marxists
>People pick the second choice

Yeah it's how you destroy a country OP

The Money Printers hated expensive labor. They wanted cheap labor.

That meant they had to bring in massive numbers of poor immigrants (whether legal or illegal it does not matter to them. Only that they laborers work cheaply matters to them.)

So they decided the best way to keep a labor class from organizing in a very significant way would be to bring in huge numbers of poor non white immigrants and tell them NOT TO ASSIMILATE!

The non white immigration and the don't assimilate message were two major departure from the earlier migration waves.

This ensures that there will be no significant cooperation between new immigrants and the existing citizen laborers.

It is a devious plot to undermine worker cohesion.

Anyone who preaches multiculturalism is supporting the plot. Even if they don't know they are.

100% agree. They are scabs. It's a shame we don't use that word in America anymore.

There was way better jobs than that though and a lot of people were still miserable at their blue collar shit

Well sure. But it was still a good way to get started for those with the ability and desire to move up.

Now you get """highly educated""" kids with nothing to do but compound their student debt some more.

For unskilled people incapable of succeeding in college, AKA the majority of America, blue collar jobs were indeed a very good option. What these jobs do is give an outlet for male aggression. You were allowed to curse, and even in some instances, fight, in a factory setting. Now that these jobs don't exist, that aggression is either suppressed or expressed in an unhealthy way, as in the case of blacks and hispanics.

College became mainstream
Only 30% of the people should go to college.

Education is critically important to an advanced civilization. Maybe only 30% should go to college, but in that case we have to be extra certain that regular school is more than filling out coloring books.

Also modern art.

You don't need to pay 60000 to be indoctrinated for 4 years making things you won't need.
Trades have to be the majority, not colleges.

I'm a big fan of trades. Especially, I'm a big fan of apprenticeship type programs and internships.

I learned more outside of a classroom than inside of one, regardless of my fancy degree.