It amuses me how often people don’t realize how much he plays to “Classical Americana” and lingering nostalgia for a bygone age.
Way back when. Many stores and Restaurants didn’t have revolving doors of barely trained hourly help. Retail and Restaurant work was a skilled trade after a fashion. Not necessarily in the literal sense of Carpenter or a Machinist necessarily. But skilled after a fashion nonetheless. And the staff there in could become fixtures of the community. Such as the stereotypical image of a kindly old clerk in nice long sleeve shirt and tie wearing an apron.
Most of what we take for granted now. Like retail and Fast Food being a Job for Teenagers just starting out. The Elderly trying to cover unexpected costs or medical bills. Or losers, fuckups, and Highschool Dropouts who couldn’t hack it anywhere else like the Trades. Is a comparatively recent development historically speaking.
Trump evoked the image of that bygone “Professional Era” to a T. No pun intended. With his McDonalds stunt.
It amuses me how often people don’t realize how much he plays to “Classical Americana” and lingering nostalgia for a bygone age.
Way back when. Many stores and Restaurants didn’t have revolving doors of barely trained hourly help. Retail and Restaurant work was a skilled trade after a fashion. Not necessarily in the literal sense of Carpenter or a Machinist necessarily. But skilled after a fashion nonetheless. And the staff there in could become fixtures of the community. Such as the stereotypical image of a kindly old clerk in nice long sleeve shirt and tie wearing an apron.
Most of what we take for granted now. Like retail and Fast Food being a Job for Teenagers just starting out. The Elderly trying to cover unexpected costs or medical bills. Or losers, fuckups, and Highschool Dropouts who couldn’t hack it anywhere else like the Trades. Is a comparatively recent development historically speaking.
Trump evoked the image of that bygone “Professional Era” to a T. No pun intended. With his McDonalds stunt.