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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a typical educated and wealthy DC-area striver.  Atheist, support women's right to choose, value the diversity of cultures in this world, etc.  I wouldn't say no to a tax cut, lol.  I'm going to be good whoever gets elected.

We gotta face facts, though. Most of America is not like DC.  It's hugely white, under-educated, under-employed people, who have been truly screwed over by progressive policies.

They have to compete with millions upon millions of lower cost illegal migrants flooding across the borders.  They have been penalized by the color of their skin when applying to college and jobs. Suicide, depression, opioids, wars they have to fight and die in...it has gotten quite bad.

Once upon a time, democrats valued this massive part of America.  Do they still?  Can they?

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have you been to the middle of America? Is Wisconsin the middle of America? I am similar to you except that we moved out here for a job opportunity, I'd never been anywhere in fly-over country outside of meetings/conferences in Chicago.  The white ppl who never went to college are doing just fine here- labor costs are insanely high, people can get married and have 3 kid families and a mortgage before they hit 30 and I know a lot of white, went to garbage public schools  tradespeople/administratove staff who do!  Life is good out here- the hordes of brown cheap labor is not here in middle America. The brown labor that is here is expensive - vp/director level and massive  amounts of Indian trained doctors b/c no white people who have gone to med school/grad school want to live here.  If you are a mediocre, non college educated white person, middle America is your best bet, you are taught handy man/mechanic skills in your high school still, you can finagle those into a task rabbit job, marry your high school sweetheart who is a medical receptionist. both of you can buy a home for a sub 200k mortgage, can get more job training, start having kids and be done with them by your 50s. that life is being lived by so many. You have a farm- there are plenty of people in the small cities who will pay you $700 for a quarter share of pasture raised cattle, so many that you run out of shares and can up the prices, season over season.

ppl think all of the rust belt is a disaster and its not- the drug problems of the cities have spread to the rural areas but for ppl who have it together- there is a very good living to be made, better than on the coasts by far.  There is racial resentment due to the wealthy brown labor though, but its not cheap labor that is their competition, its the immigrants who have white collar jobs and hire non-college educated white workers  to come fix their homes, plow their driveways, mow their lawns that they resent and that is just racism. [/quote]

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