Posted on 05/15/2016 10:57:29 PM PDT by Trumpinator
The National Review, a conservative magazine for the Republican elite, recently unleashed an attack on the “white working class”, who they see as the core of Trump’s support.
The first essay, Father Führer, was written by the National Review’s Kevin Williamson, who used his past reporting from places such as Appalachia and the Rust Belt to dissect what he calls “downscale communities”.
He describes them as filled with welfare dependency, drug and alcohol addiction, and family anarchy – and then proclaims:
“Nothing happened to them. There wasn’t some awful disaster, There wasn’t a war or a famine or a plague or a foreign occupation. ... The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible. The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles.”
A few days later, another columnist, David French, added:
“Simply put, [white working class] Americans are killing themselves and destroying their families at an alarming rate. No one is making them do it. The economy isn’t putting a bottle in their hand. Immigrants aren’t making them cheat on their wives or snort OxyContin.”
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Downscale communities are everywhere in America, not just limited to Appalachia and the Rust Belt – it’s where I have spent much of the past five years documenting poverty and addiction.
To say that “nothing happened to them” is stunningly wrong. Over the past 35 years the working class has been devalued, the result of an economic version of the Hunger Games.....The working class only had their hands. They lost and have been left to deal on their own.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
LOL......*snicker*
Oh that’s a nice touch. ;^)
On second thought, that would probably turn him on. Sigh...
You make some really excellent points.
Sadly, you’re probably correct; drat!
Nice. Now try it without looking at the label of your adult diapers.
Thanks,Frederick, for the clarification on our discussion. I must say that I totally agree with all you said in your post #107 and I am happy to find out that we are certainly both on the same page, so to speak.
God bless you.
Go chase rabbits in traffic.
Watch out! Or he’ll be putting your name into the search box every night. He trolls women while sucking up to administration. Embarrassing suck-ups.
Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...hew and I go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back; he won’t stalk me.
Just watch out for sickies you suck up.
Video games and pornography were booming in 1981, but that didn't stop Reagan's economic boom.
Yeah, it's video games fault. It has nothing to do with GATT putting the working class in direct competition with billions of third worlders who will do unskilled labor for pennies a day, or the tens of millions of low skill immigrants who've been allowed to glut the labor market.
Video games and pornography. And backward satanic messages in heavy metal music. That's it.
Illogical. If that were so they'd support closing the borders. If people are obsolete why import more of them?
The elites want less expensive people. They bring in more to increase the supply and drive down the price.
When did I "suck up" to him?
I seem to recall getting Zotted in 2001 when I was a n00b and you were involved.
Don't think that prevents your being stalked, or that it hasn't prevented
your being stalked for years. Of course I stalk you.
Who wouldn't?
No, I meant he sucks up to admins. Sorry. (He really does!)
Not being a MOD here in '01, nor "in" with them, getting you zotted ( but you're still here ) wasn't within my perview.
Lots of people wouldn't "STALK" me, but now you have openly admitted that you have stalked and harassed me for many years. Nice admission of guilt, for all to see...including the Mods and JR.
That he does and he’s also not particularly intelligent.
No, he’s seriously not.
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