Today’s tweet from Elisha Kruuss got me thinking.
This morning, we had two chimney/fireplace experts visit our house. Both are 67 and both want to retire. Both told my husband he had an eye and a brain for the business and that “no one under 60 does this anymore.” Our generation needs guys like this. Do you need skilled laborers?
— Elisha (@ElishaKrauss) December 7, 2021
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard a story like this. This is a story I hear more of these days. Education is universally recognized as key to a successful future, but in the decades since the birth of 60s activism we’ve managed to make college the end-all be-all of education, a singular path to prosperity.
To our sad detriment.
Trade programs were an integral part of high school education in the 1990s. Because not all students are destined for academic success, they were made available. The system – at that time and in that place – did not simply give up on students who weren’t excelling in classroom subjects. We realized that students might have a better path. A few times per week, the kids who were in the trades program went to college to take classes in plumbing, mechanics and woodworking.
There was an element of stigma attached to this program, I have to admit. Many of us were very snotty teenagers who looked down upon the people involved in the trades. The results eventually made us feel like snotty teens. The majority of the children who completed the trades graduated high school, and they went straight into the workforce. They didn’t have student loans or years more of schooling. Many were able work as tradespeople during their summer breaks. Their money was always there. You could always count on them to have a car that they could fix or restore.
They were the ones who had the last laugh.
These people, just like me, are becoming older. The plumbers, mechanics, and electricians who have been working in the field for decades are all disappearing as we move towards retirement. This isn’t just an economic crisis. This crisis represents the loss of quality of American life every day.
The cost of repairs and upkeep for the things we need – heat, appliances, vehicles – only rises as the scarcity of providers grows. The result is a steady decline in wealth and an increased dependence on low-quality, cheaper products. That can be a never-ending loop of despair when you are a low-income family – replacing one product with another just to get by until you can afford to replace that once it falls into disrepair and so on and so on.
The same goes for cheap and replaceable items.
I’ll give you a hint…it rhymes with LeBron James. We are becoming more dependent on the CCCP at a time we ought to be freeing ourselves from the enemy we call the CCCP. This should alarm us. They now fund most of American society’s activities.
It’s logical to posit that a great deal of our decline into socialist chaos has to do with the fact that we’ve been funneling multiple generations of children into collegiate pursuits and simply writing off the rest. Marco Rubio suggested that the United States should expand its education system by offering more trade programs when he ran for president in 2016. Liberal media ridiculed him, the underlying sentiment being exactly what I thought as a snotty teenager…trades are for people who aren’t smart enough to study.
Coincidentally, the legacy media is basically a bunch of snotty teenagers and they’ve been proving it succinctly for the last five years.
Rubio was correct. Rubio was right. Whole families were abandoned and their children sacrificed to Ivy League thinking. Liberals hated Ivy League douchebags in the past. These areThe Ivy League douchebags. They abhor the unwashed masses, who annoyingly seem to have minds of their own and insist on voting “against their own best interests.” Only the progressive left understands what is in the interest of the masses. After all, they’re the Ivy Leaguers…they’re smart.
Trades are a form of blue collar work, and they decry trades as blue collar voters can be unpredictable. They live different lifestyles than those of the progressive elite, whether they are Democrat or Republican. This means that the unpredictable blue-collar voters will also be shriveled as a result of the decline of the trade classes. It’s fine by progressives but it is tragic for America.
Blue collar workers were once the backbone of the Democrat platform. Joe Biden, like many others, still believes he is the son of blue-collar workers. But the party has abandoned them, just like they’ve abandoned Black voters. These voters often are the same. The Democrat party is clearly on the side of Big Pharma and Big Corporate, abandoning the citizens they once claimed as theirs. They have made billions for few companies through their COVID policies, and by demanding vaccinations. There is nothing “working man” about the party any longer.
Republicans should go out and find those voters. Conservatives should be praising the merits of hardwork and the skills class. It’s a recipe for a double whammy of success – rebuilding an America that does not solely depend of foreign goods and labor and welcoming in disenfranchised voters looking for a political movement that will foster their chosen path in life.
To ensure a prosperous and independent America, a skilled workforce is key.
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