And requires support staff as well.

Toys R Us, block buster, radio shack, circuit city, all dead.

As for local stores, that was being said about Wal-Mart.

Quit looking at just the businesses that died and look at some of the new ones.

like who?

Practically anything online for one.

Local stores.

The massive rise of resturants of every shape and size.

Okay I'll give you restaurants, but that's not a store.

Coffee shops are kind of the same thing too.

We're arguing classifications.

My point is that new opportunities arise.

People still want stuff, they just are limited in different ways.

That's not the same thing at all. Flint MI would be a better example of what happens when a cheep workforce take over from an experianced one.

Flint has it own litany of issues.

There are cities growing at the same time.

The main one is the automobile, steel, and manufacture moving out of the US.

I got to go.

Okay have a good one.

Real life stuff.

Indeed, more important.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMT1mnFMRf8

serious question, is the democratic party going to survive? perhaps in name only is I see a restructuring...

Barring any unforeseen disaster, I think they don't retake control of the house/Senate and get blown out in 2020. The 2020 loss will lead to reform of the party

Basically, I think what Styx thinks on this

what dan and styx said

Styx said it first. I go to Styx when I need to know what to think

link to said styx video?

@LotheronPrime he says it over several videos but the general idea is in this video https://youtu.be/1nNzxR1FINY

ahh ok I thought it was a specific video

I'm willing to bet the Democrats atleast take the house in 2018. They'll probably just double down further.

If the Republicans can catch new voters would be the real question. The majority of the Democratic party will stay intact.

I'm also skeptical of Trump winning 2020.

In part because I'm not sure the economy holds together that long.

But mostly because the Democrats just have energy and can play opposition.

So will the majority of the republican party, likely. Keep in mind the study that showed a majority of his voters had little to no exposure to the internet, what lost the democrats 2016, will lose them 2020 for sure, Democrats don't have a strong candidate (out of those they promote as potentially being such) and they often take no interest in going to the areas less affected by media exposure.

At this point, I think most of the voters the Repubilcans are going to shed will have happened by the end of the midterms, so I'll agree there.

I do think the Democrats will shatter after winning in 2020.

That's an if though, we'll have to see if they can produce a competent candidate.

Because their taste was observably flawed.

I'm looking at you, Mrs.Clinton.

I honestly can't think of a candidate more flawed than Clinton. I don't think it's possible for them to make that mistake again.