[USS Alaska]

First, white working-class voters have proven increasingly unpredictable and unfaithful to any single party. It should not be surprising that they tend to live in many of the most prominent swing states, including Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Their fickle nature is not indecisiveness, but rather the sense that neither party has done much for them over the past 40 years. The Rust Belt population has confronted post-industrial economic collapse and depopulation. It is fed up with Washington, and cynical about politicians who pledge to address its plight.

We are not fickle but we are fed up with Washington types that make and break promises with regularity.

[kearnyirish2]

The white working class has lived under a “president” for seven years that acted as though they don’t even exist; he has ruled as though the country is composed solely of blacks, Muslims, and sexual deviants.