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 ...
Don’t bother with the mods, btw. They let him harass women day in and day out. Some wrote me that he was a ‘mascot’ here. Pretty pathetic, eh? Brave Indian tribes are removed from great American sports team but we’re stuck with this creep as a mascot.
Guilt?
Interest is guilt?
Surely there are things you have paid attention to for decades.
Maybe MANY decades in your case.
Are you guilty of something as a result?
LOL
Oh, hush up Marblehead.
Go fawn over some theater crap.
I never call the MODS on him; never have done. I just laugh AT him, which we should now do together.
Since you are an old, saggy, demented , extremely lonely attentionwhore, perhaps you should follow others around; those who just might appreciate your attention. ;^)
Go blow it out your ear, you lowly, uneducated peon.
Whatsa matter, pigface? Can dish it out but can’t take it? Take my advice: go to the mods, do a little kissing up as you usually do, and maybe they’ll remove our nasty little posts and you can go back to chasing down big bad bloggers.
He’s crying like a little girl. He does that - pretty soon he’ll call you...snotty...the absolute height of his vocabulary. Prepare for the worst!
LOL...he’s never called me “snotty”, that I can recall.
Not willfully. Hence I’m wandering around FR trying to pick up kernels of insight and wisdom!
Yes, maybe “ignorant” but I assure you not “willfully.” Look at my tag line and have pity on me! :-)
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