Posted on 07/20/2018 10:54:57 AM PDT by pabianice
For one thing, it’s not Trump country. Most struggling whites I know here live a life of quiet desperation, mad at their white bosses, not resentful toward their co-workers or neighbors of color...
Like many Midwestern workers I know, my dad has more in common ideologically with New York’s Democratic Socialist congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez than with the white Republicans who run our state. Having spent most of his life doing dangerous, underpaid work without health insurance, he supports the ideas of single-payer health care and a universal basic income...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
So the author’s main source is his dad? Wow, these NYT reporters really dig deep /s
In other words, a leach.
Another know it all article by an insane Ny Slime oped writer!
So your dad is a communist?? I bet he isn't and take 5:1 you Sir are a know liar.
Right. Name five. No, name two. How about name one who isn't your Dad?
Perhaps the author is trying to convey the problem of leftist blind spots by demonstrating them.
I’m guessing he comes from a long line of pinkos. Grandpa worked for the WPA. Great Grandpa a Wobbly.
Not saying it’s so. Just a guess.
3 race/skin color references in 1 sentence. Is that all these people think about?
I can't remember the last time I made a race/skin color reference of somebody. Any time I ask my kids who somebody is, I always ask "who was that kid in the red shirt" or "who was that tall kid with the blue stirrup socks"....
Author’s dad is probably from Chicago and they decided not to mention it.
So, that degree in Women's Studies didn't get him a real job? I'm shocked!................
It is a women..
By Sarah Smarsh
Ms. Smarsh is the author of the forthcoming “Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth.”
She might be trying to say that the working democrats..have figured out that the democrat party has done nothing for them..
Lets face it the GOP has done a lot of damage to the working class..
About the Author
Sarah Smarsh has covered socioeconomic class, politics, and public policy for The Guardian, VQR, NewYorker.com, Harpers.org, The Texas Observer, and many others. She is currently a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. A former professor of nonfiction writing, Smarsh is a frequent speaker on economic inequality and related media narratives. She lives in Kansas. Heartland is her first book.
Looks like a liberal democrat?
About the only time I made a reference to skin color was in a dangerous situation. We were at a winter church retreat and one of the guys in our group went missing. I asked the director to make an announcement. He started to describe him as 6 ft. tall, bald, blue jacket. I stood up and said “It’s the black guy.” He was the only black guy there so it was a perfect description. No one had seen him so we got a search party started. Me and a friend were the only campers allowed to join the staff in the search. My friend and I found him an hour or so later. Hypothermia was starting to really kick in but he was fine.
Yes, there are always exceptions & in this case very important. Good work on your part.
Yes, my father is angry at someone...His anger is directed at bosses who exploit labor and governments that punish the working poor — two sides of a capitalist democracy that bleeds people like him dry. “Corporations,” Dad said. “That’s it. That’s the point of the sword that’s killing us.”
Yep, deal old Dad doesn't like corporations that "exploit" labor. He really needs to go live in Venezuela and enjoy the fruits of a socialist paradise that doesn't exploit labor.
Dad is even dumber about fundamental economics than that idiot Ocasio-Cortez. I am always amazed at people who don't take charge of their lives and figure out how to better themselves. If you are not satisfied with your lot in life, go learn a new skill or trade or maybe move to a more prosperous area. Get some more education. Stop whining and control your own destiny. Unfortunately we have the World Champion Whiner Clinton cheerleading all sorts of whiners like this.
He’s not a reporter.
He’s a whining, left-wing crybaby, carrying a load in his pants.
What’s remarkable is how the left/media is so entirely comfortable with a vile anti-Semitic/anti-Zionist bigot who sounds like a run-of-the-mill Nazi. If Stalinist Sandy were a Republican with the same exact view of Jews, the media would be in hysterics of painting the entire GOP as Hitler.
These people have reached new lows of disgusting and evil.
Who is this guy kidding? Where does he live where he knows "many midwestern workers" who want to live like Venezuelans do now under Maduro. Starving with no water or toilet paper. Venezuelans may have free health care but the health care itself is non-existent.
What country offers a universal basic income? None that I know of. It means I work hard for my paycheck and then give half of it to the government so they can redistribute it to some lazy ass who doesn't want to work. Then we both have the same low income, except that I worked for mine and they didn't. How long to you think that situation would last? It wouldn't.
Just another New York Times liberal trying to convince people that the midwest is full of people who want to live like the downtrodden casualties of socialism and communism. Such a place does not exist. He's lying.
Times needs to get an interpreter.
Looks like the author is a female, Sarah Smarsh. Just looked up a little about her. It looks like she’s from Kansas. Seems her dad’s employer wouldn’t give him the day off to attend a Sanders event with that Ocasio-Cortez in Kansas, wanted him to work that day instead.
So they are true victims of capitalism, they think. Maybe her dad should get a different job or move to another country.
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