The Rude Pundit calls it like it is.
Look. We liberals gave them health care and addiction treatment and retraining help and an auto industry bailout that saved millions of their jobs. We created the programs that brought electricity and indoor plumbing and phone service to them. We gave them tons of shit that the Republicans fought tooth and nail to prevent or take away. We kept them fucking alive, goddammmit. And in the end, none of that made a damn bit of difference because it’s not about how bad their life is with them. It’s all about identity politics. It’s all about sticking it to The Man, about being upset that niggers and faggots no longer know their place, about a fear their children might get edumacated and move the fuck away from the hellhole they’ve made of the place they live.
And since I’m sure some sanctimonious Republican dickwad is gonna flounce in here at any moment and decry El Rudo and me as some New Yawk Elite and other bullshit like that, El Rudo is from Louisiana, like me. We went to the same high school, actually, and I remember him well though he was two years behind me (folks, he was loud, profane, and funny as hell even as a young El Rudo). When he says that Democrats chasing white working class voters is a lost cause, he’s not doing it from some elite coast viewpoint, he’s doing it as someone who grew up there and knows how people think there (for some definition of the word “think”). Identity politics trumps economics, in the end.
We liberals should feel their pain if we want their votes? Fuck that shit. We should do what’s right by them because unlike them, we embody the Christian virtues of caring for the least amongst us, but that ain’t gonna make a bit of difference in terms of votes because when you see people who repeatedly time and time again spew racist blather like it’s God’s own truth, who continually over and over vote against the people who created the government programs that keep their butts alive and give them a chance for the future (programs like Medicaid and food stamps and retraining programs and so forth), when you see people who time and again vote for politicians making shallow promises about things that even a moment’s worth of thought can never happen because reality just don’t work that way (those coal jobs are *gone*, people, and they aren’t coming back, because even the Chinese are retiring coal-fired power plants and replacing them with solar and wind), when you continually see people who vote against their own self-interests because they care more about sticking it to “The Man”, some caricature in some far-off state that they don’t really comprehend but they know has to exist, than they care about their own self-interests… screw’em. Yeah, call me smug if you want. Won’t be the first time. Won’t be the last time. But I’ll just point out that Trump won with fewer votes than McCain lost by. Trump didn’t win because white working class voters deserted to him. Trump won because the Democrats forgot their own coalition and didn’t turn out their own voters. A coalition that today trends urban, more educated, more minority, and younger than Republican, and which was broken up this year by a number of things, but none of which had a damn thing to do with white working class people.
As for white working class people? Yeah, their plight sucks. 99% of it is their own fault for hanging on to their own petty bigotries and hanging on to their own ignorance and refusing education when it was offered to them, but yeah, their plight sucks. And we liberals ought to do something about that. But because it’s the right thing to do, not because they’re going to be grateful and vote for us. This election wasn’t about economics. Trump’s voters actually trended *wealthier* than in the last election. Claiming the election was about economics is nonsense. This election was about identity politics, pure and simple. It was about a whole class of people saying, “Stop the world, we want off, we want to go back to when you could graduate high school dumber than a rock and still make a good living at the coal mine, and black people knew their place, and gay people were somewhere else, not in our face in our towns, and we didn’t have all these strange ideas coming into our towns via satellite TV and the Internet.” Well that ain’t happenin’. That train done rolled. The left-behind are pissed about that. Well, there’s not a bloody thing we can do to make them un-pissed about it. You know what the take-up rates are on re-training programs in Kentucky coal towns? You know how many of those who *did* take the re-training courses were willing to move in order to get a job in their new field? 0.5%. Zero. Point. Five. Percent. You got people who aren’t willing to help themselves, and then they’re blaming Democrats for that fact. Boo fucking hoo.
So fuck the white working class. We liberals have no outreach to do there that has any political import. What we need to do is get the liberal coalition back together again, and kick their politicians out of office and help these stupid motherfuckers despite their unwillingness to show a dime’s worth of gratitude for that help, not because we’re going to get their votes — the dumb ass motherfuckers ain’t gonna vote for a liberal, nosirree — but because it’s the right thing to do. And then we need to dump all the bullshit that the KGB spread to divide Democrats against themselves, and get our people pumped up and ready to vote these motherfuckers out of office and get in there and fix this shit, already. Wasting time on the white working class trying to win their votes, in the end, as about as useful as outreach to Amazon jungle tribesmen. They’re both a bunch of primitive dipshits who aren’t gonna vote for us regardless, so. Offer them help because it’s the right thing to do, but obsessing about getting the votes of these primitive inbreds is about as useful as a bicycle for fish. We need to get our own shit together and get our own people out to vote. That’s the solution, in the end.
– Badtux the Rude Penguin
Yeah, pretty much dead on. Frankly, we can’t give these people what would make them happy, because time and technology have made their skills obsolete. And time is going to make them more obsolete every day.
Sad, for them, but there it is. We are entering a new era in society, in technology, and in employment. And when these vast, society-wide changes occur, they come with enormous instability and danger. (Let’s see, when was the last time something like this happened, back when laissez-faire capitalism broke down and produced the modern welfare states? sometime in the 1930’s, wasn’t it? How did that work out?) Until society finds a way to cope, and until the winners and losers get it sorted out — we need to have very cautious, thoughtful leadership.
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I am so tired of picking through the “If Only We . . .” articles. We Lost, Period.
The message and the messenger were flawed. “IF” the uninterested half of our country had voted, it would at least be fair representation, but we couldn’t even give them a reason to go out and vote. Reading the internet has been a daily thing for me for many years, but with all this useless whining going on now, I have to go back to cat pictures or go do something else.
Yes we can ‘rearrange the deck chairs as our Titanic goes down’, or maybe we might build a better ship to begin with?
Not even sure what that means, but business as usual isn’t working.
Depressed with politics
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Yep. Like I said, “And then we need to dump all the bullshit that the KGB spread to divide Democrats against themselves, and get our people pumped up and ready to vote these motherfuckers out of office and get in there and fix this shit, already.” Democrats let themselves get led up a blind alley with all this hand-wringing about working-class whites. Democrats need to be fucking Democrats and do what Democrats do and stand for what Democrats stand for, I’m tired of all that hand-wringing about “if only we’d done *this* to appeal to working class whites” yada yada.
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This attitude is what lost the race for Clintonova in the first place. The basket of deplorables is pissed off and the Democrats offered them “more of the same and harder”. They’re going to continue losing until they become a genuine party of the Left or go the way of the Whigs. Because all I’m hearing out of you and El Rudo and a whole chorus of middle of the roader Dems is about how much butthurt they have. If you want to win, offer a winning platform, not warmed over lesser evilism. That shit just isn’t going to fly anymore.
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You seem to have not gotten the point at all. My point is that there isn’t a goddamned thing that liberals and the Democrats are ever going to do that’s going to get white working class voters to vote for them again, because the core gripe that white working class voters have is the 21st century and Democrats ain’t gonna be able to roll back time for them to the 20th century where they wanna live. The Repukes are lying to them and saying “sure, we can roll back time for you to 1960 when you didn’t need an education to have a good paying factory job and niggers and faggots knew their place”, and it’s the lie they want to believe, so unless Democrats want to do the same — which I do not recommend, because it’d piss off people who *do* vote for Democrats — fuck the white working class.
It’s time to do a Blues Brothers and put together the band again, the band that got Obama elected in 2008 and 2012, the band of minorities and liberals and gays and left coasters and young people, you know, *Democrats*. The Republicans won because they went after their voters, that whole basket of deplorables, and didn’t give a shit about trying to run to the center or get natural Democratic constituencies to vote for them. They ran a campaign to excite their base. Democrats need to run a campaign that excites their voters, not some voters who wouldn’t ever vote for them, but, rather, their base. That’s one thing Hillary did *not* do with her wishy washy both siderism and attempts to run to the middle.
What this election proves is that attempting to run to “the middle” doesn’t work for Democrats in an era where negative campaigning is cheap and outsourced — you’ll just get slimed by the slimeballs until your positives are in the gutter, and you’ll have pissed off your base so you’ll lose them, too. Get your base excited, get the people who will vote for you excited, and forget about trying to run for the votes of white working class voters. To paraphrase something said about jobs, them votes are gone, and they ain’t comin’ back, ’cause their gripe is with the 21st century, and unless you’re willing to run against the 21st century — which Democrats can’t, because that’d piss off their base — you’re just wasting time.
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Why do we, the majority, have to reach out to them? Why do we have to understand them? Before this election result (which was a surprise to everyone, including Republicans) if we brought up working class voters who happened to be non-Caucasian the only reply would have been a speech about personal responsibility and coded racism in the form of mentioning affirmative-action. So, yeah, fuck them.
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Fuck the white working class. Seriously, fuck them, or whoever people believe they are. I’m sorry, that’s harsh, so let me start from the beginning. I was born into a white working class family. Dad drove a tow truck and mom answered phones at a plumbing company. I know exactly who these people are because I’m one of them, or was one of them. I even lived in a trailer for a spell that was located in a junkyard and took two buses to the good school. And while interactions with people of color or openly gay people were few and far between, that doesn’t mean I didn’t occasionally hear the words nigger, wetback and faggot. I didn’t hear these words often, but I heard them come from my family member’s mouths enough to remember how they were said. These words were always spoken in a slightly hushed voice with a downward head tilt as if they were sharing an intimate truth. It’s not like they were racists, right? It’s not like they were sexist or homophobic, right? It’s not as if they were personally responsible for racial, gender or sexual orientation discrimination, right? Well…right. They were. They are.
When asked in isolation about a host of issues white working class voters, to the extent they exist as a large group, are in favor of Social Security, Medicare, a higher minimum wage, higher taxes for the wealthy and oppose trade agreements. Wait, what? Their stances on the issues I’ve just described are not currently being debated within the Republican party because the official position of the Republican party is the literal opposite. They cast their votes for a party defined by unfettered capitalism that led to the trade agreements they believe cost them good jobs, and along the way, deregulated the financial industry leading to the Great Recession causing massive home foreclosures in which any of them who owned homes watched helplessly as their most valuable asset was ground to dust or was lost outright. It’s interesting because it makes no logical sense why exactly these people consistently vote for Republicans.
In this election’s aftermath I understand and immediately reject progressives well intended need to know what happened and why Democrats fail to resonate with working class whites. How could this happen? What world do I live in and how do I not understand this whole other world that resides nearby and upended mine? Empathy is more advanced in humans than any other species and provides the charity, service to others and hopefully peace essential to a civilized society. However, a surplus amount is often the downfall of those on the political left (see: bleeding heart). Enough with those on the left trying to “understand” what happened by understanding how a group of people who describe themselves as the poor left behind working class could vote for a silver-spoon sorta-billionaire from New York City who doesn’t pay taxes. The demographics are clear and most are not poor, left behind or put upon by corrupt political and economic elites who they always accuse of “looking down on them.” They didn’t vote for Trump to right a grave injustice because there’s been no injustice perpetrated upon them to right. They didn’t vote for him in spite of his racism, misogyny, xenophobia, pro-sexual assault by celebrities or anti-whatever isn’t white and a part of “real America.” They voted for him because of it. What did you think that red hat slogan meant?
Donald Trump led the birther movement which was never about a good faith belief that President Obama wasn’t eligible to be President of the United States, but was entirely about legitimacy. You see, if you’re a Republican and you’re creating a concept of “real America” and “real Americans” then you’re
also doing the inverse. So who are real Americans and where do they live? They’re white people, mostly men, who live overwhelmingly in the South and Midwest so if you don’t fit the description you’re not a real American and are therefore illegitimate. Yes, you’re an American citizen, but to real Americans you’re more accurately thought of as an american with a small a. Not quite real enough to be president. Not real enough to make your own reproductive decisions. Not real enough to get paid the same as your male coworker. Not real enough to enjoy the full benefits of citizenship by marrying your same sex love. Not real enough to be protected from unlawful search. Not real enough. Think of your status as more of a new-age Dred Scott. No, I don’t think using his name is a step too far because I can connect the obvious dots from slavery to segregation to Jim Crow to birtherism to voter ID laws like a picture on a children’s paper placemat at a chain restaurant.
We are a nation that allows so much money in politics we are forced to endure presidential elections that last nearly two years. While insufferable, that thorough of an election process should make Americans the most well informed voters in the entire world. How could we not be? Individuals running for the single most powerful office in the world spend two years telling us exactly what they’ll do while in office for four years. So, how much do you know about policy? Please take as much time as you’d like. You know, really get into the dispassionate details of everything you learned these past two years. Okay, that’s too much so just narrow it down to the final two candidates. You don’t know anything do you? Okay, you know some but is it two years’ worth of information? Six months? Don’t even front, if there was a test on policy we’d all fail. We had a nearly two years’ long policy-free campaign for the presidency. Instead candidates mostly asked us to vote for them by describing the defects of their rivals. It lasted for months until there were two and then we got more of the same before we accidentally landed on something that matters. Does a respective candidate have the proper temperament and comportment for the most distinguished and important national office? It matters. This person is the face of America and despite what some believe that still means something everywhere in the world, big time. It’s just not exactly what I wanted after months of just two of them; we had the time for policy details and temperament. Anyway, let’s just weed out the obvious non-qualifiers. Surely we can cross people off the list who have done following:
– Discriminated against African-Americans by systematically denying them equal access to rent an apartment in several buildings they owned.
– Described in graphic detail how their celebrity status provides a gateway to sexual assault.
– Has been accused by more than 10 women of groping or otherwise physically assaulting them.
– Refers to and regards women exclusively by their physical appearance and treats them according to their own personal judgment and approval of that appearance. In fact, this point could run several pages so just think of every disgusting and crude insult reserved for women and this candidate has used it regularly and publically for the entirety of their adult life.
– Described Mexicans as drug dealers and rapists. Full stop.
– Described their lively sex life on a radio show as their personal Vietnam while avoiding service in actual Vietnam for fraudulent reasons.
– Failed to recognize as heroes American POW’s because they prefer service members who weren’t captured.
– Insisted the first African-American President of the United States wasn’t an American, and then years later begrudgingly said he was and then a few months ago during a speech used air quotes when referring to “President” Obama.
– While entrepreneurial, this candidate has gone bankrupt at least a half a dozen times destroying the finances of small investors but not before regularly refusing to pay small business owners and tradespeople for their work while daring them to sue for payment.
– Has a charitable foundation that illegally solicited donations and then illegally used those donations for business expenses and financial settlements related to other corporate malfeasance.
– Claimed they were skipping a debate to instead raise money for military veterans and while claiming to have raised millions had in fact not raised or donated a penny.
– Has a plan to ban Muslims from entering the United States, a country founded by people fleeing religious persecution.
– On two separate occasions publically mused about someone murdering a political opponent.
The people who elected Donald Trump did not do so for complicated reasons that need to be carefully considered to be understood. How do I know? I know because when looking at the shared actions of a group it helps to identify who they are and what traits they share. Patterns emerge. The more diverse a pattern the harder it is to discern, the simpler the easier. Who voted for Trump? They are college educated and non-college educated men and women, incomes ranging from working class to richest in the world, geographically close to each other or at least connected by state borders, and…I think that’s it. Okay, it’s a simple pattern but where are the similarities? It’s a decent cross section of gender, education, profession and income, but what do they all have in common besides their vote? It’s tough I may have to read one of the newly popular novels that explain hillybillydom as if it’s scholarly anthropology.
Progressives please stop looking for some bigger reason and see what is in front of you. Stop using your empathy against your common sense. Stop using emotion to blind the reality in front of you. Why did the Republican candidate win? Because they keep it simple by promising two things: They will abandon all beliefs to make sure rich people never pay taxes, ensuring those doing better than average will vote for them no matter what else they stand for or policy they implement, and supremacy. Their poorer voters being takers don’t pay taxes (but enjoy your draw compliments of my blue state California dollars), so they’ll happily accept supremacy in place of an America that never was and which their president will not deliver.
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Here’s the other problem that NObody wants to talk about; a “winning platform” for the people in Cornhole, Ohio involves believing that the Dems can make three impossible things happen before breakfast.
Forget offshoring. Automation is going to replace a butt-ton of what maufacturing jobs are left. Good luck coming up with a “platform” to fight that. Try and lock down on automation and you’ll find that your plant owners are gonna run like scalded cats, and without a massive tariff wall AND punitive rules on capital mobility (and good luck getting the plutocracy to let THAT pass…) the offshoring will go up exponentially.
Plus the bottom line is that the locations of these places are a century behind reality. Pittsburgh didn’t become “steeltown” because of the view. It got steel because it was close to the coalfields and the iron ore deposits. Well, coal is playing or played out and it’s cheaper to mine iron ore in Gambia and ship it here (or recycle steel scrap) than it is to mine it in the Appalachians. In order to bring these jobs back we’d have to change geography and economics.
And don’t forget that to do all this the GOP would have to agree to (or at least, not filibuster and fight) all these changes in financial regulation, legislation, investments in infrastructure. When’s THAT gonna happen?
I’m not saying that the D’s should try and have a better answer to this problem than “Globalization! It’s What”s For Dinner!” I’m saying that the answer is a hell of a lot more difficult and a hell of a lot less “possible” than just saying that the Dems need a “winning platform”. There’s a very real possibility that there IS no “win” for these people in these places. They don’t want to hear that, though. They want magic sparkle rainbow ponies only with fewer negroes and homos…
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Right. Their problem is the 21st century. Nothing short of promising to bring the 20th century back will get their votes, and the Dems can’t promise that, because it’d piss off critical parts of *their* base — the parts that are getting rights now that they didn’t have in the 20th century, the young people who’ve never known anything but the 21st century and are quite happy living here thank you very much, and the parts that are benefitting from the 21st century because they fucking adapted rather than sit around and whine about how miserable their lot is in this new century.
0.5%. Of the 10% of those eligible who even bother showing up for re-training. That’s how many of these miserable coal town miners are willing to relocate to get better jobs now that their jobs are gone and are never coming back. If they aren’t willing to take even that amount of initiative, forget about them actually creating their own jobs the way a lot of us have to do in the 21st century. It ain’t fucking happening. They want the 20th century back, when they didn’t have to do shit except show up for work everyday at the coal mine in order to make their way through life. Well, that century is gone, and it ain’t ever coming back.
I can’t blame the rich and affluent Republicans for voting for Trump. They voted for one of their own who they figure is gonna take care of them. The white working class Republicans? They want the 20th century back, and Democrats can’t promise that, so they’re gonna vote Republican. Period.
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The problem with expecting the Dumbocratic political party organisation to do what you rightly recommend, operate from an ideology that is like FDR’s, is that the party.org is made up of “insiderists.” The people who decide which candidates to support in Congriftsional races, where to direct campaign money (and who to beg it from), which way Congresscritters are going to vote on all sorts of motions and clauses and policies as legislation gets made — they’re the bought-off Establishment. It’s why the official Democratic Party monkeywrenched Bernie. If you’re part of the official D apparatus, it makes more sense for you to keep doing what pleases the people who give you BIG money (not those little donors and voters) and maybe a good lobbying job. Your party and your (alleged) constituents might lose more often than they win, but YOU stand a better chance of coming out ahead. I watched an interview of Thomas Frank, who wrote the book “What’s the Matter with Kansas” and now has a similar one aimed at Dems titled “Hey Liberal” in which he lays it out clearly. Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept and a lot of other left-leaning writers echo the same theme. Even Howard Dean, who was an insurgent populist type when he ran for Prez in 2004 and had the “50-State Strategy” when he was DNC chairman, has sold out and become a lobbyist now. Debbie Wasserman Schulz might have lost her DNC job, but she just got re-elected to her Congrifting seat. Chuck Schumer, a fatcat bankmaggot buttboy, is going to be the Dems’ leader in the U.S. Senate now that Harry Reid is leaving. As long as it pays well-connected individuals more to ignore what SHOULD be their constituency than it does to serve that constituency, they’ll stay bought.
The only solution I see is to prepare yourself as best as possible for the coming shitstorm. Save money. (The most effective way to fight back against The System would be to stop spending as much as possible, because a 10% drop in economic activity would tank the economy and bring on a crash that MIGHT cause a realignment. Crash is coming anyway, so why the hell not?) Learn to grow some food. Establish a network of people you can rely on to help you out, and help them out in turn. Get your head wrapped around the probability that things are going to fall apart, and be prepared to deal with it. It will help you, maybe, come out less damaged from the smoking wreckage that lies ahead. But none will emerge unscathed.
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But like I said in my comment above, Bukko; the problem with assuming that Bernie would have done better with this group is that Bernie 1) had a hard time connecting with non-white Democrats throughout his primary run, so it’s hard to see how he gets them to turn out in higher numbers than they did for Clinton, and 2) there’s no way Bernie can promise them what Trump did. Trump lied; it’s really that simple. As Tux and I discussed above, the problem here isn’t that the Dems are in the bag for the plutocracy – they kind of are, but that WASN’T the problem – but that to promise what these “white working class” (and most of the people who voted Trumpist weren’t genuine proletariat – they were petit bourgeoisie and upper-middle-class) wanted would be to promise to return to 1962, and that just ain’t possible.
The hard reality is that for a lot of these people these jobs and their way of life are just gone. Big agricorporations are gonna keep swallowing family farms because economy of scale unless the feds decide to bring out the trustbusting axe…and who’s gonna explain to the People of WalMart that they need to pay more for milk and Jimmy Dean pork sausage because they need to support family farms?…and manufacturing jobs are gonna keep fleeing or being automated short of some pretty radical capital-flight and domestic-content (i.e. exclusionary) legislation…and who explains to the People of WalMart why their cheap plastic crap ain’t so cheap anymore?
Not saying that this shouldn’t happen. But I AM saying that this isn’t as simple or easy as waving the Magic Bernie Wand, either…
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BTW, why do I say white working class rather than working class? It’s because the brown working class isn’t kvetching about how they want to go back to the 20th century. They’re busy washing your windows, mopping your floors, and picking your fruits, and predominantly vote for the party that isn’t trying to take away their Medicaid and their food stamps.
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Yes this 100%
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You still need those with the old skills. You must grow all your food? Harvest the beans needed? Repair the road? Dig the ditch?
It’s not so much as giving them a good living, an education, a set of job skills, and an opportunity to employment. If the opportunity is only open to those who speak a foreign language, is it an opportunity? For all? If it is only open to those of a certain vocation, religion, sex, gender, can everyone fill the position? Will the employer teach the job needed, like the old days? They are calling for college degrees, now, to dig a ditch. Why?
Why do people live in the rust belt? Many times they have ever opening jobs. Where the employer is willing to hire some caught with drugs. Or a driving conviction, unlike the elite areas. Don’t blame the victims, till you walked the mile.
Oh, and color plays no part of it. The bad actors are all colors. But especially green.
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The reality is that many of those tasks are increasingly automated. Once upon a time roadbuilding had a bunch of people who did things like set down forms for concrete, wipe boards across the top to level it, etc. Now it’s a machine that leaves a ribbon of asphalt behind it. What used to take dozens of people now takes 2 people.
That is, those tasks will always be there and will always need people for them, but they need *fewer* people. The auto industry still needs people to build cars, but it needs literally half as many people per car as it used to need only fifteen years ago.
The world has changed, and it’s not going to go back to the old ways. Neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton could have accomplished that. The difference is that Donald Trump promised them they could go back to the 20th century, and that’s what they wanted to believe, so they voted for him. Hillary couldn’t promise that, not without making her own base that loves the 21st century just fine angry, so.
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I’m a registered Democrat and a member of the white working class, and I’ve seen this movie more than once already. Barring folks who are not yet old enough to vote, the Democrats have reached pretty much everyone they’re capable of reaching. I grew up in an almost completely white small town in Massachusetts that may as well have been in Louisiana. The schools were decent (our science classes taught a somewhat flawed theory of evolution, but there was zero creationism, so we turned out to be a little smarter than rocks), but the bulk of the parents I knew were pig ignorant bigots to one degree or another. They loved Ronald Reagan and his Morning In America bullshit then. I know for a fact that most of the ones still alive love Donald Trump and his Take Our Country Back bullshit now. I have that same white working class background; I just ditched that primitive mindset a long time ago. So I won that small battle. They’re hidebound, and that’s the way they’ll stay.
On the other hand, I see no point in getting mad at them. If anything, we should be mad at ourselves. If our side didn’t turn out to vote the way the other side did, then shame on us. Whether or not Hillary was a flawed candidate or ran a slipshod campaign is irrelevant — she was the best we could do this time around. And the alternative was clearly worse: a small-minded man with a big loose cannon, and now he’s the president-elect.
One of my coworkers is a white guy who voted for Trump. He and I obviously don’t see eye to eye, but we were watching some of the protests on TV the night after the election, and he said something I thought was spot on: “I’d like to know how many of those people didn’t vote and wish they had.”
So would I…
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The WWC began leaving the Democratic Party in 1968, was in full retreat to Raygun Dreamland in 1980 and has been voting soildly Rape-publican since 2000. The voters who awarded Trump the Presidency (with less votes) are the same pukes who voted for R-Money in 2012, got hard for Sarah Palin in 2008, and voted to continue the War Crimes Adminstration of W(orst) Cheney in 2004.
They’ve abandoned the Democratic Party and the Democrats in their folly have been chasing after then for decades only to be jilted over and over and over.
The WWC choose unvarnished Racism and Out-right Bigotry. The WWC is dying faster and faster and the Rape-publicans are going to accelerate the process.
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