Posted on 03/26/2016 9:18:09 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Members of the White middle class, American patriots that continue to sustain the values of our country, have been attacked for years by the “conservative” establishment. They have discovered that there is no difference in ideology between the Republican and Democrat hierarchy; that the elites of both parties lie continually to the citizenry. They have come to realize that the political landscape consists of corporate entities and Soros-like billionaires, shaping the future of our nation contrary to the wishes of the electorate. Congress itself is composed of a self-styled nobility, convinced that the American people should be permitted to offer no advice on how they are to be governed.
Anti-establishment leaders have been pummeled by the media. “Conservative” publications, among them National Review, have used entire issues to attack Donald Trump, for example. And after various attempts at character assassination did not work, these “conservative” establishment journalists began to denigrate Trump followers—conservative members of the White, American middle class.
In a National Review article, author Kevin D. Williamson decided that the middle class, the nation’s blue collar workers who work hard for the money they make, the God fearing, flyover-country majority that has lost so much due to the exit of manufacturing jobs and damaging government regulations; that these people are just whiners who need to get over the fact of their inevitable extinction. These communities “deserve to die,” writes Williamson, for the sin of having brought their ultimate destruction upon themselves. For they represent the vestiges of a White middle class which has refused to embrace the conservative movement as led by Willard Romney, George W. Bush and Karl Rove, preferring instead to cling to a nationalistic nostalgia for the country and life they used to know. Not surprisingly, they are the dedicated believers in Trumps’ “Make America Great...
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These a-holes have been doubling and tripling down on the Kevin Williamson article since then. I don’t feel like rounding up the links, but I’ve seen at least a half-dozen cheap labor apologists pen defenses of his argument. Even a handful here have agreed (you can imagine which candidate they support, naturally).
Shame we can’t just agree about the right policies on National Security and the growth of the Private Sector Economy.
Trump has done us a huge favor over all these months, he has smoked the rats out of their holes, and made the neo-con artists and their open-borders toadies identify themselves publicly for what they really are, democrats. For decades they have been like termites, busily eating the woodwork of Western Civilization. Destroying the republican party is nothing to them.
Great post!!!
It’s easy. The “establishment” is a corrupt socialist cabal that has taken over the Republican Party. They talk and talk about good policy, but their default positions are wholly in alignment with the open socialist left.
This is nothing new. ALL republican career politicians have been screwing the middle class for decades. OK, may be there are a dozen exceptions in the House of Reps.
Can you imagine the talk, jokes, and laughter that goes on behind closed doors after these so-called “conservatives” in the GOPe tell the American people how much they want to help them????
I thought Williamson’s article was overbroad, but there is an element of truth in it. Our whole society had become unmoored, and the American character of hard work and self-reliance has deteriorated significantly. And, before anyone attacks me as egalitarian, I was raised as a rural poor white kid.
Yeah I know, that’s who these guys are. They dress up a hard left ideology as “liberty” (sounds nice, right? Who doesn’t like liberty?!). As long as these guys are our “elites” we have a choice between ordinary and hard leftists of the Democratic party, and super-hard leftists from the GOPe (with occasional nods to the Church, when to do so can further their agenda!)
the “concept” was that the manufacturing jobs would be replaced with “service” industry jobs WITH equal or greater pay..... WRONG....
technology would offer higher paying jobs and would replace the lost manufacturing jobs...
ok so what bottom line oriented multinational would not want to use the equivalent of slave labor and cheap ocean transport to lower their cost and increase profit... however the social cost is not factored in. And the concept is flawed becuase ultimately it leads to the loss of the middle class (consumers) able to purchase the goods...
the miltinationals have shoveled the social costs onto the very people they have already screwed over.... THE MIDDLE CLASS TAXPAYER.... the poor and the wealthy dont pay taxes.... despite what they say...
So the government in its infinite wisdom has substitutued NEVER ENDING TERROR WAR for a social solution and plans to bring back the draft... again a strategy doomed to failure... WAR costs money... lots of it and the middle class cant afford more taxes... So the entire social structure of America has been sacrificed for CORPORATE PROFITS...
WHEN A JOB GETS SHIFTED OFFSHORE... THAT COMPANY should pay 100% of the unemployment benefits and health care until that person is re-employed... That will slow down the flow offshore. Technology and tech job training should be levied on corporations also. Duties on foreign production will cause a global depression with tariff wars and currency wars...
However not all people are tech oriented so that “solution” wont work. More and more government workers is also not the answer. The only solution is to bring back manufacturing jobs that pay a decent salary and benefits... cut back on government size and scope and budgets... Install a hiring freeze and no salary increases for govenment workers. Let them die off and not be replaced...
I don’t think the problem is so much businesses operating in ways that profit them as it is in businesses then trying to run government along the same principles. It’s a one or the other type of proposition which hinges entirely upon who one owes a fiduciary duty to.
Right, all these newbies are going to tell those of us who have worked in the movement all our lives who’s a real conservative and who isn’t.
Give me a break!
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