General Discussion

That may be what they believe, but I think they will be disappointed. Here's the thing: let's stipulate that the billionaires and other wealthy capitalists bought and paid for the GOP and spent quite a bit of cash to win this election. They are not cretins: they know that the larger the labor pool, the less value labor has, and hence the less they have to pay for it. I really don't think that these monied interests are terribly worried about the amour-propre of the bros they propagandized into voting the way they wanted them to. Mind you, I am of the opinion that everything the GOP says is a lie designed to manipulate vulnerable target groups. But the expansion of the labor pool which gained momentum in the 1970's with women's rights and equal rights for minorities made labor dirt cheap, and thus led to major profits for the consumers of labor. They would not want to lose that advantage, especially as labor costs are pretty significant to the bottom line.

That said, we need to consider that the corporations don't use as much American labor as they once did, preferring to farm it out to countries where it is even cheaper than here. So if a few women or minorities fall through the cracks, it's no skin off their nose. But I believe that a lot of the rhetoric and a lot of the promises made by the GOP candidate will be unfulfilled, because their masters the moneymen do not want them to be. They were just bullshit to get people to vote for them.

-- Mal