Why the white working class votes against itself

Washington Post ^ | December 22, 2016 | Catherine Rampell

[Leep]

Also would cut federal taxes in half.

[alloysteel]

Some 95% of all the personal woe in this world is self-induced.

The Democrats, by their clueless misreadings of the popular will, put themselves into this bind, and whine that they were “misunderstood”.

On the contrary, they were understood only all too well. Collectively, people are a lot smarter than the Democrats give them credit for.

[mrsmel]

I have also noticed that while they take pains to differentiate “uneducated” white voters from others (those with high school diploma or less), they never, never, ever differentiate blacks on that basis-educated vs uneducated.

[peeps36]

I was just standing in line at the store while two welfare queens were talking about getting their new obama phones with touch screens. They were talking as if they paid for them and they were owed these phones. They also come with free unlimited wi-fi.

[central_va]

This election was about gloBULList establishment Keynesians vs Nationalist Patriot protectionists. The good guys won.

[Drango]

Fake news editorial with massive vapor rant.

[Gay State Conservative]

Ten bucks says that “Catherine” was born “Kenneth”.And another ten says that “Catherine” has a trust fund.

[central_va]

You have to realize that the lion share of WaPo content is meant for the local natives of the District of Corruption. She will surly receive many accolades at holiday parties for her “insightful” tome. The Compost is like a high school newspaper for the Diamond of Deceit (DC) dwellers.

[mrsmel]

Yes. I have been lurking on DU, and in their bitterness and loserdom, they still stubbornly refuse to even consider that the problem might be with their party, their candidate, their agenda. One often-cited “solution” to the problem of them losing an election now and then (which is bound to happen in a democracy) is to wait for “demographic change” to work in their favor-ie, wait for whites to die off. Their problem right now is that the GOP owns a majority of governorships, state houses, Congress, plus the Presidency, and of course that’s due to “gerrymandering”. Which they will fix, come the Revolution. Of course, it’s not gerrymandering when they do it.

[Mariner]

As long as the leftists remain this stupid and deluded, America will be OK.

[txhurl]

Analysts cast about for analogs but the trend was right in front of their faces in the ‘14 midterms when NO poll except the DeMoines Register’s poller got it right, every other poll was 5pts off, and I was shocked by the Dems that blurted out to me that they voted straight R in those mid-terms.

They never bothered analyzing that (PUBLICLY!), and they aren’t going to publicly admit ‘16 was a continuation of ‘14, because that’s explicit admission that their platform/agenda has completely failed.

‘Why aren’t I 50pt ahead?!?’, indeed. RATS were crossing over to Repub primaries by 12 million for Trump, but they couldn’t deal with it, and like the spouse who got cheated on, they were the last to know.

The Unions alone could have tipped the RATS off to the reality on the ground, that thousands of Union workers were attending Trump rallies instead of going to work when he was in town. Every shred of evidence was waving in front of them, they chose to ignore it.

[Mr. Lucky]

I’ll go out on a limb and guess that Catherine doesn’t have a trade and has never actually built anything.

[gogeo]

But there seems to be universal agreement, at least among the Democratic politicians and strategists I’ve interviewed, that the party’s actual ideas are the right ones.

How can we compete with intellect such as this? (snicker)

[gogeo]

New lies and new liars.

[dhs12345]

Important: probably stating the obvious we must not underestimate the Democrat party.

The election was razor thin close and there were tens of millions of people who believed in the Democrat message and voted for them. Is was by no means a landslide.

[dhs12345]

Sadly, it will be too late by the time that they figure out that they are being lied to by the Democrat party. And they will drag the rest of us down with them.

The whole global warming scam will destroy the middle class and most people don’t even realize it.

[Mariner]

The Democrat party and all its member and politicians hate white people and do everything they can with the levers of power to take what they have, and to diminish and ridicule them.

They also seek to destroy the culture, Western Civilization itself...the pillars that enabled the White man to conquer the world.

This has been a systematic campaign over a hundred years. Every spark of energy, ever flicker of daylight is unceasingly devoted to this end.

And they still wonder why White people didn’t vote for them.

[MNJohnnie]

Except it didn’t. It voted for itself for the 1st time in decades instead of mindless listening to the nonsensical class warfare demagoguery pushed by the Democrat party.

There is a reason Wall Street gave Hillary hundreds of million in dontations

[cloudmountain]

This election was about gloBULList establishment Keynesians vs Nationalist Patriot protectionists. The good guys won.

They SURE did.
Our "TRUMP" card trumped the Democrat joker card (A.K.A. Shrillary).
This only makes sense if you are a bridge player!

[Neoliberalnot]

The WaPo lies turn out to be the opposite of what this leftist wrote. The working taxpayers voted against the racist bigots set in motion by BO and his black klan organizations. The black klans hide behind titles like BLm, NAACP, SPLC, black panthers and the rest of the list. The white taxpayers voted against the parasites and other looters of our taxes. We simply are tired of carrying the financial burden of paying our way and the way of the average demrat voter. Get a job losers!