Posted on 02/21/2017 5:36:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Anthony Rices house in Youngstown, Ohio is a mile away from a river valley once filled with factories offering jobs. Many of those left in the 1980s, and with them, many residents.
His home is one of the few occupied on the street. Empty lots or boarded-up homes make up most of the block. He points to those remaining, listing his neighbors and their age. They are all over 70. This neighborhood is okie-dokie, although not much goes down here, he says. Stores used to be all around here, but they mostly gone. The people left are either too old to move or waiting for someone to buy them out.
The road itself is a patchwork of potholes. This street hasnt been paved in like forever. They just dont care about us. But we used to that.
Youngstown is the largest city in Mahoning County, Ohio, where Donald Trump narrowly lost a county Barack Obama won twice easily. That was partly because turnout in Youngstown which is lower income, younger, and close to half African American dropped by roughly 15%....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
It’s like a documentary: Yokels in the Mist. We’ll try to not scare the adult Redneck as he waves his shotgun around in a primitive dominance display. We approach, disguised as one of their own saying “Can I get me a hunting’ license here?”
This is what is left of middle America thanks to globalists like Bush 41 & 43 & Clinton & Obama....and no, it was not an accident. These polices were put in place to ship the middle class wealth of United States citizens across the world.
Great graphics!
Enthusiasm was slightly higher for Romney than McCain (most likely because of Obama fatigue), but nobody turned them out like Trump.
We had voters in line 45 minutes before our polling place opened at 7 am.
THey’re the best tools I’ve seen for visualizing just where the battle lines are being drawn. I think it’s fair to think of the Clinton map as a map of the Ruling Class power structure, and the Trump map is “We the People”. The election proved that “We” can win, but we don’t have forever, because look at where the demographics are heading...
Excellent graphics to demonstrate why the Founding Fathers believed that the electoral college was essential in a republic and for the future of America. Without the electoral college, the brain dead, freeloading morons would have prevailed in 2016. Thanks.
The article author must be someone who has never really had it half-bad or worse.
I read the article, as written for the townspeople of London, in the U.K., who get all their news from BBC.
The "real" America - the author is correct in dismissing that locution as condescending - that America is not simply angry at being abandoned by the bicoastal political establishment, it is angry at the conviction that the abandonment is permanent, as is the contempt, the condescension, the sense that the only thing important about it is the ability to manipulate it. Now the political establishment is fighting a scorched-earth Fabian campaign against Trump and Trump isn't the problem, because Trump or no, that sense of abandonment is going to cause political earthquakes until it is addressed directly and honestly. And no one in the current political establishment is interested in that.
Bump
Does the author know that the election's over? Trump won BTW.
Those are outstanding. Printing them for sharing
bkmk
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