Truth can be painful at times. There was an article in the Washington Post a few years ago about a company wanting to build a factory in Danville, VA. Danville is a former textile town that has been in bad shape for decades and is a white working class area. I forget the name of the company, but the governor recruited this company to build in Virginia, but when the company was out scouting for locations, it also interviewed and tested potential factory workers. So many were on meth and other drugs, that the company decided to go elsewhere. So there is some truth to those articles and this has occurred in other communities. Rural news is not covered much, but there is a crisis out there.
That doesn't mean I think David French is qualified to be president. He has written many moving articles about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and is mainstream conservative, but again, at best he would be a spoiler, if that.
It doesn’t mean that these communities “deserve to die”. It means that conditions today are destroying what used to be and should be the most vibrant part of the US economy. Just letting the middle class die because it deserves it??? What deserves to die is the Illuminati who have now unmasked their ugly faces!
The point being that working class communities are dysfunctional due to high rate of drug use and high percentage of out of wedlock children.”
Those are symptoms of the disease, not the disease itself.
When men can’t find work, they turn to alcohol and drugs to ease the pain. It’s been that way for a thousand years.
When women can’t find husbands with steady jobs, they have their children out of wedlock, so they can obtain government benefits. It’s been that way since the 1960’s.
The core problem is the jobs have moved out of the area, leaving MEN jobless.
“So many were on meth and other drugs, that the company decided to go elsewhere.”
You are describing what has been the problem in the black community for decades. Now that problem has moved into the white community. Why? Do you actually believe it is because whites (as a group) have become lazy and shiftless? Because, that seems to be the point you were trying to make.
Or, could it be that whites, like blacks before them, had problems because they were on the low end of the economic stick with no hope of rising out of it?