2016 Postmortem

or suffer ever stronger defeats

the 'grace period' of the blind eye to all this stuff is over.

This election had 2 candidates, one in favor of raising the number of H-1b visas, and the other pledging to do something about the abuse. I had the displeasure of not voting for someone who at least acknowledged for the first time that this is even happening, because he was unfit. But I can understand why someone who worked hard to get a computer science degree for the perceived economic security, then ended up having to train a foreign replacement on an H-1b visa and then watched their family slide out of the middle class (and yes, this really does happen, a LOT) might have voted for him. You have to remember, when these people were younger fresh grads, the workforce would *never* have selected someone in the workforce to train them and be replaced - *never*. If you didn't get a job when you graduated, that was just too bad. But foreign nationals on H-1b visas expect (and get, with help from our 'reps' like Hillary) exactly that

whether he's lying or not, racist or not, give people a perceived choice between survival and voting for someone you feel sold you out, a lot of people are going to pick survival

if the message is 'be obedient, and jump under that bus, or we'll call you a racist', you're going to lose