1. We do not elect the Political Class. We get to choose, generally between a couple of carefully controlled choices they give US. They have carefully given US choices that do not include real border security, at least until, possibly now, with Trump.
Yet even Trump does not really care, which is why he waited two year to declare an emergency, he waited till it was politically expedient to do so.
Also, we are given more than two choices each election, but you all have been brainwashed into believe they cannot win, and thus it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It does not matter if Trump "really" cares or not. My point stands. The Political Class failed to represent the wishes of the people. That is on them, not on the People.
2. The way that Trump overcame the entire political power of the GOP and the Dems, and the Media and the Deep State, based on a message of Border Security shows that America does care. And btw, elections like that, are how America is set up to decide such things. That and the democratically enacted laws the come though elected officials. We have the laws that say, not welcome. We have the elected President that says not welcome. YOu want to ignore that, and focus on some "American companies" based on nothing but sophist nonsense.
Border Security was a part of his message, and that message resonated with about 1/4 of the adult population, as that is how many voted for him. None of that changes the fact that for the last 40 years nobody has really given a shit.
You claim the lack of action as evidence that "no one cared" in the same post as saying that 1 fourth of the population cared.
Also, one forth of the population is a bit of a game, the election only counted VOTERs, and that was ONE HALF of the voters.
So, really, your claim that no one cared, makes zero sense.
3. Yep. After decades of policy being crafted to serve purely the interests of the employers, it is finally the turn of the workers, long over due. The balance of power is finally started to shift a little back. Let US let is simmer like this for the same amount of time that it was the other way, say 50 years, and then see where we are at, and if we want to course correct.
It can never last this way, for two reasons.
First, a lack of available workers stifles growth, a company cannot expand without workers to fill the expanded spots.
Secondly, we are just about to break the record for the longest period of economic expansion in our countries history, it can only go on for so much longer. Our system is designed to fail (or correct itself as some like to say) on a regular basis, and we are past due. Trump is actually smart enough to realize this and that is why he is begging for lower interest rates and another round of QE, to drag out every last second he can till the next election, then it will not matter. The problem being the longer it is delayed, the deeper or longer the "correction". Trump also likely knows this, but does not care.
A recession will come and will end. If the labor pool remains tight, the general trend can continue to improve the lives of American workers, by the scores of millions.
THe employers have had their way for the last 50 years. It is the employEES turn. It has not even been THREE years. Give US another 47 and then let's see how things have developed.