It sucks and honestly there should be more done but neither party is going to invest in rural communities . In essence the vote should be in the state not the national government . We need to start voting locally but like states in the Midwest , the cities hold a good lot of the population . The political environment benefits globalization and to a certain extent there ' s not much the US can do to stop it . We can regulate companies to have factories kept in the US but that ' s short term solutions . People are too into ideology of the party and not into what the party would actually do . HW Bush was the one who wanted NAFTA he laid it out for Clinton . Long term , counties need to vote in people in the state government who advocate for more investment in rural areas and education . Russia had the same idea , they knew globalization would screw them over so they invested heavily into education and technology . That ' s the long term goal . But we need people dedicated to that movement before it can actually happen .