How Liberals Left the White Working Class Behind

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t need the white working class.

Do you do your own plumbing and home repairs?

My plumber makes close to $150 an hour. He isn’t working class.

$150 per hour less business expenses doesn't make you wealthy.

And this post right here demonstrates perfectly the GOP stance on humanity. You're either wealthy or human trash, no middle ground.

I'll give Trump one thing, he emboldened the scum of the earth to come out and stop hiding their real views so at least we can identify them more easily.

and he helped show how the mainstream media, CNN and MSNBC are completely biased against the middle class. We have been hearing the world is falling apart FOREVER, and things keep on working.

In the aftermath [of Trump’s victory], many of the immediate post-mortems blamed a coastal bubble: Too many journalists had grown nearsighted in urban Democratic enclaves, the reasoning went, blinding them to what was taking place in Middle America. If more reporters actually spent time in fly-over country, instead of jetting through for a rally, they’d understand why Donald Trump won voters over. [...] [T]here’s little question the journalistic class has diverged sharply from the country it covers. In 1960, nearly a third of reporters and editors had never attended a single year of college; in 2015, only 8.3 percent could say the same, according to Census figures extracted with the help of the University of Minnesota’s IPUMS project. That year, 46 percent of adults 25 and older nationwide had never attended a university.

https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/11/bubble/508397/

[Anonymous]

The white working class left itself behind when it doubled down on its bigotry and resentment over the fact that some white politicians started coming out with platforms that were meant to benefit EVERYONE while simultaneously acknowledging that there are people in this country who since it's founding have not been treated equally and fairly and that amends had to be made . How dare them! Thoughts and prayers mofos

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don’t need the white working class.

Do you do your own plumbing and home repairs?

My plumber makes close to $150 an hour. He isn’t working class.

$150 per hour less business expenses doesn't make you wealthy.

And this post right here demonstrates perfectly the GOP stance on humanity. You're either wealthy or human trash, no middle ground.

I'll give Trump one thing, he emboldened the scum of the earth to come out and stop hiding their real views so at least we can identify them more easily.

and he helped show how the mainstream media, CNN and MSNBC are completely biased against the middle class. We have been hearing the world is falling apart FOREVER, and things keep on working.

Oh piss off with this nonsense. So unless we are in literal Mad Max shootouts for a sip of muddy water everything's A-OK?

The trains ran great in Fascist Italy, people still went to the bier hall and had fun in 1930s Germany, and plenty of normal everyday people go to their normal everyday jobs in Cuba. It doesn't mean everything is or was OK.

Things ARE falling apart here. Our president is a blatant criminal and half of Congress knows it yet refuses to do anything about it. Our soft power around the world is gone and will never fully restore itself. The "Land of the Free" is committing LITERAL GENOCIDE intentionally separating children from their parents on a racist basis, the wealth gap in our country grows every single day, climate change is fast becoming an unfixable problem and there is no will to do anything to change that.

Things ARE falling apart, you're just too ignorant to realize it because "hey my 401K looks great!"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Working class Americans are pro-Trump because Steve Bannon researched what they wanted to hear and taught Trump to say it. No other reason.

Trump has nothing in common with working class Americans. Why a man who was born rich and has never suffered the consequences of his financial mistakes should be their spokesperson is absurd.

This too shall pass.

+1.

And the decline in manufacturing jobs in the US was not solely due to NAFTA. Automation, plus China’s entrance into the WTO, played a huge part.

Too bad Fox News and the Repubs tanked the TPP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The GOP spin is ro laughable. As if they were ever going to do anything to help the unwealthy.

No, Bernie Sanders is. And the establishment on both sides on here are scared sh*tless.

Which is why I'm voting for Bernie or Warren.

The white working class will vote for whatever ever con makes them believe they are "one of them" while inheriting all their money from Daddy and sitting on golden toilets.

The framework of white privilege can be invoked with insight and subtlety, or with myopia and exaggeration; but either is a lot easier for white people to hear and to assimilate into their worldview if they’re college graduates who anticipate rewarding careers and stable family lives and mostly socialize with the similarly advantaged. They’re told that they ought to be thriving given their race … and they are thriving!

But imagine that you’re a white man from a working-class family who dropped out of college because you couldn’t swing the tuition. You worked construction, but that dried up—you’re presently unemployed, with child-support payments piling up, a sister addicted to pain pills, and a brother who is in jail again for felony drunk driving. You drive a beat up car with a broken turn signal that you can’t afford to fix. You get pulled over regularly, and you’re often harassed by the cops, who hate your tattoos. Would you identify with a coalition that alighted on white privilege as the center of its cultural outlook and that mostly disseminated that worldview through people with more educational, social, and financial capital than you’ll ever have?

Of course you wouldn’t. To do so would seem at odds with all the struggling white people in your familial and social circles. It would seem to imply that failing despite having all the advantages in the world makes you a special kind of loser. It would seem to focus on race to the exclusion of other hugely important factors. And as far as you can tell, when a white family gets their door kicked down and their dog shot in a drug raid, or when a white high school classmate of yours commits suicide, no one in the world of national media much cares.

A very insightful, nuanced look at race and class. Well done. I’m sure it will be ignored or mocked by the shallow, privileged, and middlebrow denizens of DCUM

"Middlebrow"

That's a word that an elitist from a privileged background uses to denigrate others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don’t need the white working class.

Do you do your own plumbing and home repairs?

My plumber makes close to $150 an hour. He isn’t working class.

$150 per hour less business expenses doesn't make you wealthy.

And this post right here demonstrates perfectly the GOP stance on humanity. You're either wealthy or human trash, no middle ground.

I'll give Trump one thing, he emboldened the scum of the earth to come out and stop hiding their real views so at least we can identify them more easily.

and he helped show how the mainstream media, CNN and MSNBC are completely biased against the middle class. We have been hearing the world is falling apart FOREVER, and things keep on working.

You forgot to add FOX NEWS. Or are you implying that Fox is always thinking about the working class?

And which is it, is the white working class left behind, or are they doing just fine because everything's working and thus who needs to tend to their needs?

Please get your story straight.

[Anonymous]

"Middlebrow"

That's a word that an elitist from a privileged background uses to denigrate others.


I'm not PP but sorry about your vocabulary, neck beard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The GOP spin is ro laughable. As if they were ever going to do anything to help the unwealthy.

No, Bernie Sanders is. And the establishment on both sides on here are scared sh*tless.

Which is why I'm voting for Bernie or Warren.

The white working class will vote for whatever ever con makes them believe they are "one of them" while inheriting all their money from Daddy and sitting on golden toilets.

The framework of white privilege can be invoked with insight and subtlety, or with myopia and exaggeration; but either is a lot easier for white people to hear and to assimilate into their worldview if they’re college graduates who anticipate rewarding careers and stable family lives and mostly socialize with the similarly advantaged. They’re told that they ought to be thriving given their race … and they are thriving!

But imagine that you’re a white man from a working-class family who dropped out of college because you couldn’t swing the tuition. You worked construction, but that dried up—you’re presently unemployed, with child-support payments piling up, a sister addicted to pain pills, and a brother who is in jail again for felony drunk driving. You drive a beat up car with a broken turn signal that you can’t afford to fix. You get pulled over regularly, and you’re often harassed by the cops, who hate your tattoos. Would you identify with a coalition that alighted on white privilege as the center of its cultural outlook and that mostly disseminated that worldview through people with more educational, social, and financial capital than you’ll ever have?

Of course you wouldn’t. To do so would seem at odds with all the struggling white people in your familial and social circles. It would seem to imply that failing despite having all the advantages in the world makes you a special kind of loser. It would seem to focus on race to the exclusion of other hugely important factors. And as far as you can tell, when a white family gets their door kicked down and their dog shot in a drug raid, or when a white high school classmate of yours commits suicide, no one in the world of national media much cares.

I think people, myself included, had much more sympathy for poor white people before it was revealed just how much they will vote against their own self-interests because of their whiteness. Having a large part of our country left behind and hurting doesn't benefit us. But they will NOT vote for Dems, libtards, socialists, coastal liberal elites, you name it, with policies that could actually help them. I don't know what can be done. Even with the trade wars now, very few of them seem to want to vote for a Dem. They want coal jobs and manufacturing plants back and it's not happening. They hate "Obamacare," but love the ACA.

The world and the country is moving on and they are not and the GOP only wants them for their votes. White voters have their own identity politics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t need the white working class.

Do you do your own plumbing and home repairs?

My hardworking, legal Hispanic neighbors do that for
Me.

What a self-hating, racist POS.

Why? What do you have against minorities? I am one myself. The racist is you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don’t need the white working class.

Do you do your own plumbing and home repairs?

do you ... think only white people are plumbers and roofers? In the DC area, tradesmen & service people are around 75% non-white, in my experience.

Yup. And shoddy workmanship follows

Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The white working class left itself behind when it doubled down on its bigotry and resentment over the fact that some white politicians started coming out with platforms that were meant to benefit EVERYONE while simultaneously acknowledging that there are people in this country who since it's founding have not been treated equally and fairly and that amends had to be made . How dare them! Thoughts and prayers mofos

Yes someone wanting to keep a job is racist

Yes someone that wants to hire their neighbors child instead of a guest workers from half way around the planet is racist

[Anonymous]

I’m white working class, and some of the posters here are completely nuts. We’re not all all racists who are incapable of understanding basic economics and politics.

I have a better grasp of how laws and government work than our president. That may not be saying much. I think he stopped paying attention in 3rd grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The white working class left itself behind when it doubled down on its bigotry and resentment over the fact that some white politicians started coming out with platforms that were meant to benefit EVERYONE while simultaneously acknowledging that there are people in this country who since it's founding have not been treated equally and fairly and that amends had to be made . How dare them! Thoughts and prayers mofos

Yes someone wanting to keep a job is racist

Yes someone that wants to hire their neighbors child instead of a guest workers from half way around the planet is racist

My working class relatives haven't ever seen a "guest worker" they just don't want to have to hire brown people of any sort, or be near anyone who says they are LGBT. They all have had jobs and have kept them for 20 years, they are just lower paying jobs.

[Anonymous]

Dems support a living wage
Dems want health care for all
Dems want to support education
Dems are for unions

Rs are for big business and helping rich people keep their riches, and that's pretty much it.

Even R farmers want their trade connections back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The white working class left itself behind when it doubled down on its bigotry and resentment over the fact that some white politicians started coming out with platforms that were meant to benefit EVERYONE while simultaneously acknowledging that there are people in this country who since it's founding have not been treated equally and fairly and that amends had to be made . How dare them! Thoughts and prayers mofos

Yes someone wanting to keep a job is racist

Yes someone that wants to hire their neighbors child instead of a guest workers from half way around the planet is racist

My working class relatives haven't ever seen a "guest worker" they just don't want to have to hire brown people of any sort, or be near anyone who says they are LGBT. They all have had jobs and have kept them for 20 years, they are just lower paying jobs.

Wanting to keep a job ? You can't be serious ,also why would you want to hire a 'child' ? We don't do child labor in America anymore . No wonder you're sympathetic or a conservative , you're physically present in 2019 but mentally stuck in medieval times .