What exactly does “working class” mean?
I ask because I agree with everything listed here but not sure that I’d be someone’s definition of working class.
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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.
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.
>>What exactly does “working class” mean?<<
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Just another attempt to put us in a box.
Middle Class is a better term, which would include small business owners, independent entrepreneurs, professionals (doctors, lawyers etc.) and people on salary.
I think it is everyone who does not live primarily off interest/dividends, or off welfare.
Want to piss off a liberal? Point out that Trump supporters are CERTAIN TO BE SMARTER on the average that the libtard crowd, whose lefty college professors and Ivy Leaguers swim with a school of unemployed, broken-home, drop-out and immigrant fellow travelers; most of whom are totally dependent on the government to take care of them.
By contrast, we are virtually certain to be self-sufficient, responsible and for the most part well-enough educated for whatever career path we have chosen.
Obviously the libtards, on average, are not even close to being as smart.