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President-elect Donald Trump realized early in his campaign that U.S. IT workers were angry over training foreign visa-holding replacements. He knew this anger was volcanic.
Trump is the first major U.S. presidential candidate in this race -- or any previous presidential race -- to focus on the use of the H-1B visa to displace IT workers. He asked former Disney IT employees, upset over having to train foreign replacements, to speak at his rallies.
"The fact is that Americans are losing their jobs to foreigners," said Dena Moore, a former Disney IT worker at a Trump rally in Alabama in February. "I believe Mr. Trump is for Americans first."
Yes, US nerds were angry about training H-1B replacements, but how much could they have helped put him over the top?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:41PM
The two party system.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by jmorris on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:08PM
No. The illusion of a two party system. Trump proved there was in reality only one Party with two public faces.
Now we get something new. The Republican Party died the night Trump was nominated. The Democrats died with Clinton's loss, they just don't know yet.
The H1B thing probably moved the needle in the tech community, although few could afford to risk the career limiting consequences of saying so in public. Which was of course another major theme of Trump which also moved the needle, his promise to end the reign of fear. In the end it was many things, but all variations on a couple of themes. One side was globalist, giddy with barely concealed delight at the ongoing ruin of what most would call "Americans" but they deemed "irredeemable deplorables" and on the other were those who now wear "Deplorable" as a badge of honor and suddenly have realized that a) they aren't dead yet, b) they are still a majority and c) they still have the option of fighting.
So a big thank you needs to go out to President Obama, Hillary Clinton and the legacy media for crushing the crap outta us, rubbing our noses in how hated we are and being too stupid to realize they were in fact still outnumbered, that demographic replacement hasn't happened yet.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:34PM
I'd mod you Insightful or Informative but I already used up my points. Instead I'll just say that's some rare brain-usage.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.