Posted on 10/14/2017 7:27:16 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
Well, yes. Despite a determined effort to inject "white" into this in order to frame it as the delusions of racists, the fact is that the working class, period, has been abandoned by urban elitists who currently compose the decision makers within the Democrat party. The interests of the white working classes have been marginalized, yes, but worse, those of the black and Hispanic working classes are essentially invisible to them. "Abandoned"? Yes.
Identity politics failed when Hillary's assumption that women would vote for her because she was a woman foundered on the cold fact that working class women have other interests, notably jobs that would provide food in their children's bellies, shoes on their feet, and a roof over their heads. There's nothing racial in that. Nor is it a consequence of lack of education as some have proclaimed; these women aren't too ignorant to know their interests, the politicians are.
The Dems will recapture the working class vote when they stop framing America as an inherently evil and unjust place and start admitting that maybe, just maybe, it's the sort of place that everyone's children should grow up in. That isn't going to happen within this generation.
If you can hear a dog whistle...
...you’re a dog.
Really? Why don't you shut up then and quit bragging how politically stupid you are.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
--- Unknown
hope and change? differences:
Trump = hard working American’s hope and change
obama = self deluded give me free things american’s hope and change
I lot of us were on board the Trump train from day one.
So! Did you vote for Illary?
If you read that study or at least skim through it, you find a couple of things.
1: White people are racist because they’re racist in a way that no other race or nationality can even come close to. They have the patent on racism. It is their exclusive right and it is their collective destiny to express their racism. Any attempt on their part to accomodate, allow to assimilate, or just be natural friends and comrades with other races is an anomaly and should be treated as the expression their guilt at being racists.
2: White people have no brains. Therefore, it is unfair that they cannot be manipulated through their genitalia, their cultural plug-ins, where they work, where they think they should work, where they used to work, and where these racists would like to work, if only they could stomp on Black people getting there. It is inconceivable that white people should be able on their own to come to the conclusion the HRC was perhaps somewhat untrustworthy. Yeah, right.
If I was a Dem who had hired this company, I would have thrown these people and their stupid study out of my office. I would have mailed the payment check in an envelope big enough to accomodate a giant smelly dog turd. This study blatantly assumed its own conclusions and worked from there. I hope it cost Geo Soros plenty.
They have no path except to import their voters at this point. (however, if whites and upwardly moving and upstanding whatever-color people don't start having more babies, the takeover will be by default.)
In my opinion it doesn't mean ‘blue collar’, it doesn't mean ‘non-university educated’, and it doesn't really refer to any specific type of employment. It means those people who have to work daily for a living, who don't have ‘connections’, who play by the rules (e.g. an honest days work for an honest days pay), believe in the American dream and the idea that if you work hard you will succeed, and who don't see themselves as personal saviors of the world - but rather as just people, and family members, whose job it is to do their best for God, their families, their country, and their fellow man/woman.
The stark reality is that the ‘other side’, the ‘intelligentsia’, don't understand or actually like the ‘working class’, because they do see themselves as ‘saviors of the world’, and as special, gifted, enlightened, and yes - better than.
When I see/hear people accusing Trump of being a narcissist, it upsets me, because the true narcissists are people like Hillary who lack compassion and understanding and whose ambitions have always been to be publicly prominent.
I think I will do a study on the black welfare-class.
Soros bump for later....
I voted for President Trump because I’m sick of corrupt politicians.
Not that I object to Soros wasting his money, but did he really have to sponsor an academic study to figure this stuff out.....
George Schwartz cannot think of enough ways to waste his money.
He should think about paying more in taxes to help his buddies.
“I was strictly a Cruzer until Trump needled him, terribly crassly and unfairly, I thought- until Cruz reacted and I realized that Cruz would not be able to handle the Democrats and probably not the Republicans in Congress. Trump made all the serious candidates react badly and showed me that he was the only one of them who had a chance of doing the job I was voting for. I didn’t come to actually like him until a month or so into his presidency.”
That’s me.
Maybe I started liking him a bit earlier.
But as time goes on, I like him more and more.
I still disagree with some of his positions/statements. But overall, he is so refreshing. And thoroughly destroying many enemies that need to be destroyed. Cruz would never have been able to do what needed to be done. Trump IS doing it. I had thought Cruz as VP would have been real good. Cruz could have been trained on get-er-done, proper attitude, negotiation, etc. Oh well....
#MAGA
WINNING!
Working class people are typically those who pull forty-or-more hours a week....continually fear unemployment or shifting of jobs to overseas locations...shake their head over the unfair tax system...have to carry a pistol in their car to work because they know the cops can’t protect them, and just don’t believe a $20,000 per year college situation for junior is the answer.
A lot of this division business is explained in a recent book “Listen Liberal” by Thomas Frank. As he tells the story, after McGovern’s defeat in 1972 (regarded as the intellectual’s intellectual)...the Democrats sat down and analyzed the loss (it was massive). The leadership decided that catering to the working class made no sense because they were not intellectual enough to grasp a good candidate.
So Frank leads you through the 1980s, then into the 1990s with Bill Clinton...where their new concept of an intellectual candidate worked (the fact that Bill could shape his message and talk to both groups was never recognized by the Party). So when Obama came along, he fell perfectly into this intellectual agenda, but was helped to a great extent by black voters who showed up to vote for him.
Hillary picked up the intellectual anchor and marched on....figuring all of this would work for her as well.
There is a class war going on. You’ve got the urbanized groups (all hyped up over special agendas), and the intellectual crowd...sitting with the Democrats. Middle-class and working-class folks (even some union folks) have slide over to Trump’s message.
I would say this...looking over the cities in what George Soros funded for this study....three of the five cities have a fairly large minority situation. They seem to be looking for some theme to build an unknown candidate around and avoid the working-class guy once again.
Thanks for outing yourself...
No problem, I’ve supported Trump since day one, 6/16/2015
Wife and I are proud members of the Tea Party of a few years ago. I hope I live long enough to see Soros choke on chicken bone on television...
Good summary. I would also add that the white working class was also abandoned by the Republican establishment.
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