“Middle Americans” in the rust belt without any skills wound up doing low paying service industry jobs, and many are now having children out of wedlock. Pat speaks for a world and a people that increasingly exist only in memories.
I think that’s true nationwide. To some extent, it occurs “naturally” (bad choice of words, I know. Organically?) but it increasingly appears to fit an agenda- the whole communist claptrap writ large. Not the moral decline necessarily but the poverty/ “inequality” thing.
We shouldn’t *let* these memories go down the memory hole. For all it’s “deficiencies” & it’s “backwardness”, it was a better world- saner, safer, by far less stressful & more satisfying. There were improvements to be made, but tragically, those attempts at “improvement” destroyed the good things we had.
And that suits the communists’ agenda; those who hate the whole concept of America, just fine.