Their jobs aren ' t going to come back . Automation took more jobs than jobs were shipped overseas . Promising them back is disingenuous at best . Automation isn ' t going to be stopped , and to be honest no one is going to want to pay the prices of they did bring all the manufacturing jobs and gave them to humans . Sadly , college degrees are becoming almost mandatory while also becoming much more expensive . I ' m not sure what America is going to do to support our population and keep employed , but we ' re past the point of working at the factory down town . They aren ' t being heard because there isn ' t anything anyone can really do . Aside from maybe offering incentives to companies who employ people instead of machines . Another thing is that many of these people are conservative , so they ' ve been supporting slashing social security , welfare , SNAP , and Medicaid . Because of this , they have almost no fall back when they do lose their jobs . They ' ve caught themselves in a vicious cycle this is only going to end when that generation does .