Posted on 06/01/2016 9:43:36 AM PDT by Brookhaven
While Donald Trump has called on the GOP to become a workers party a development Sen. Jeff Sessions called for two years ago, ironically, in the pages of the National Review French has defended the idea that white working-class communities deserve to die.
Specifically, French wrote a piece in support of Kevin D. Williamson, who had said:
The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible. Forget all your cheap theatrical Bruce Springsteen crap. Forget your sanctimony about struggling Rust Belt factory towns and your conspiracy theories about the wily Orientals stealing our jobs. Forget your goddamned gypsum, and, if he has a problem with that, forget Ed Burke, too. The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trumps speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isnt analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul.
French insists that the devastation of the working-class livelihoods is unrelated to failed federal policies such as mass immigration:
[I] have seen the challenges of the white working-class first-hand. Simply put, Americans are killing themselves and destroying their families at an alarming rate. No one is making them do it. The economy isnt putting a bottle in their hand. Immigrants arent making them cheat on their wives or snort OxyContin. Obama isnt walking them into the lawyers office to force them to file a bogus disability claim.
When readers responded with outrage to Frenchs piece, French doubled down in a post entitled The Great White Working-Class Debate: Just Because Im Nasty Doesnt Mean Im Wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Coal never went anywhere. Profitable technology exists to extract it. When the political winds shift, it will be used.
Take a pill.
There's simply not a single true word to anything you've said. The "A" in EPA is almost entirely (de)composed of admin regs & EO - either you know how easily most of that is unrolled (or should I say "untrolled"), or you don't. Either way, FU.
So, are you saying you approve? That's ok with you? Because from your timeline, I'm not strongly getting the idea you disapprove with McGovern's 1972 Democrat Platorm:
"Probably the most liberal [platform] ever adopted by a major party in the United States". It advocated immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, amnesty for war resisters, the abolition of the draft, a guaranteed job for all Americans (it offered to "make the government the employer of last resort"), and a guaranteed family income well above the poverty line." - Wiki
Do you intend to vote for Trump in the US November general election?
“So, are you saying you approve? That’s ok with you? Because from your timeline, I’m not strongly getting the idea you disapprove with McGovern’s 1972 Democrat Platorm:
“Probably the most liberal [platform] ever adopted by a major party in the United States”. It advocated immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, amnesty for war resisters, the abolition of the draft, a guaranteed job for all Americans (it offered to “make the government the employer of last resort”), and a guaranteed family income well above the poverty line.” - Wiki”
That was almost 45 years ago, when technology and the economy were so different that it was almost an entirely different civilization. I don’t “approve” of what amounts to welfare, I haven’t seen anything in the 21st century that I really like, but this is the reality. There simply may not be enough honest work to go around in the future. It isn’t true now, but it may be true in a future on the horizon.
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