patrick.net

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/upshot/why-voters-dont-buy-it-when-economists-say-global-trade-is-good.html?ref=business
They provide 3 possible reasons: isolationism, nationalism, ethnocentrism.

They reeaallly can't understand that people don't like working commodity jobs for the minimum wage and then taking debt to plug the gap.
They can't understand that people value building things they can be proud of, over flipping burgers - or shuffling mindlessly financial papers.

This can't exist outside of isolationism, nationalism, ethnocentrism? Seriously?

These people have their heads very far in their own butts.