2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Fuck the white working class [View all]duffyduff
(3,251 posts)We haven't had them in the Dem Party to any great extent since Nixon, when he used racist code to get their support.
The vast majority of these dudes vote GOP. They keep voting against their self-interest time after time after time. The time to have protested against the economic ruination of this country was during Ronald Reagan's administration. That is when neolib economics really started snowballing. Jobs were being sent overseas by the millions, pensions were gutted, unions were undermined, ruinous trade agreements began to be implemented. And where the hell were these white dudes? Voting for Reagan, bitching about how many "advantages" women and minorities were getting because of affirmative action, these guys thinking they deserved and still deserve the best jobs because they have white skin and dicks.
I refuse to feel one bit sorry for these assholes. With the women, it is almost entirely the bogus "social issues" which the right politicians always use as a con in order to get these women's votes in order to pick their pockets.
Years ago I used to feel sorry for these guys losing their way of life, but there comes a time when to cut them loose. You couldn't knock sense into these idiots with a two-by-four. I am not sure another Great Depression would change them. They are hopeless.
I am sick of this "working class" phrase. That is Berniespeak, and he is nothing but a moth-eaten Marxist.
I am not a fan of the "Rude Pundit," since his foulmouthed writing grates on the nerves, but he is right in this case.