Posted on 07/04/2016 6:41:36 PM PDT by Hojczyk
In that painting, it’s just the people reached on landlines that admit they plan to support Donald Trump who actually do. And those Trump voters time and again are given a suspiciously similar face: white; male; blue collar. And then those less neutral descriptors: racist; sexist; uneducated. The first three are often shorthand for the second set.
The Democratic party – and by that, I mean the party gatekeepers with power to wield media influence, which worked out great for the Brexit vote – are writing off those hardcore racists as an overblown minority that is making more noise than they can translate into votes. But overlooking “regular Joe” moderate voters like the ones who filled my childhood could be our undoing.
My party has gotten cocky, and I fear that condescending mentality will lose us this election. Because for all of his divisive bluster, Trump has gotten one thing right time and again: small-town America is not doing great.
Don’t get me wrong: I sure as hell won’t be casting a ballot for Trump this November. But I have watched this primary season unfold through a different lens than my very liberal coworkers and fellow New Yorkers, who live in a world that’s largely bounced back from the recession.
Where my family lives, factories are closing. Schools don’t have enough money for teachers, and all of Barack Obama’s hope and change hasn’t done much trickling down in the last eight years. And just because the moderate voters living in these areas aren’t showing up at Trump rallies or plastering your Facebook wall with tirades about Muslims doesn’t mean they’re planning to support Obama’s heir apparent come November.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Really? Fear no more, it already has.
If the author is a dem then why spend so much time on Trump?
Well Sarah, you’re just now figuring that out? Ever heard of the Soviet Union...the nomenklatura?
Here we have Limosine Liberals...the Clintons, Kennedys and Obamas etc. You “great unwashed” masses just need to be kept away.
SSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH don’t tell anyone Trump’s going to win.
Well, gosh, if you don’t care about government corruption then guess what’s going to happen...
In Santa Monica and evirons we have Trustfund Hippies equally if not more revolting as they insist on mixing with us proles
That was 30 years ago.
The just-us department is reaping its just desserts.
There is no way of coming up with a good version of rot.
“hope and change”
Have we heard that line before?
I’m a Democrat, but I fear the elitism overtaking the party
Really? What was your first clue? Another out of touch, head full of mush, snowflake heard from.
If elitism is talking over the party, the meaning is not that everyone who calls themselves Democrat is an elitist. It means that the elites have successfully figured out how to manipulate the masses within the party. Which means if you’re a Democrat you’re either a member of the elite, or think you are, or you’re a gullible idiot. This is what Democrats call “freedom”. It’s the freedom to wonder whether you are among the elites or among the gullible. This is precisely why and how, among liberals, university professors and feral urban delinquents can have exactly the same opinions.
“Where my family lives, factories are closing. Schools don’t have enough money for teachers, and all of Barack Obama’s hope and change hasn’t done much trickling down in the last eight years”
Well, let me put it simply so your little libtard speck you call a brain can comprehend so here it is: you vote Dem that’s why they’re closing.
See the root of the problem? You’re a liberal imbecile.
She is wrong
It is in both parties
That is why Trump will win in a landslide
unless he implodes
Another slow Democrat.
There will always be the I-told-you-so’s, but those are like little children taunting.
The adult answer is “Welcome to the porticos of good sense. Would you like to come in the building?”
The Left is an elitist cabal from end to end. If you ARE a smaller town product, your concerns aren't worth squat. Hildabeast is for Hildabeast. Just as Lord 0bamao is for Lord 0bamao and the Kennedys are for the Kennedys and so forth.
They use you, and "minorities" for their own purposes. To get power, keep power, extend power, enrich themselves and form alliances with other like minded elitists globally.
Sarah, you are simply cannon fodder. the sooner you learn that, the easier it'll be when you're finally sacrificed for their benefit.
And attitudes like yours are part of the reason why it is such a long and hard slog to get America where God would rather it to be.
Well said, better than my post. Thank you.
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