2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNational Review just comes out and says it: Fuck you poor white trash!
Wow...
https://amerortho.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/the-national-review-finally-just-comes-out-and-says-it-fuck-poor-people/
National Review link here: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432876/donald-trump-white-working-class-dysfunction-real-opportunity-needed-not-trump
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.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)THIS. Clinton will be more of the same. The Rust Belt doesn't need more of the same.
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)"The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture" is true for a part of the group. The ones who cheered Ronnie Reagan while he dismantled labor unions; joined the vicious attacks, led by the US Chamber of Commerce, the AEI and their Republican allies, against Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats who led efforts to pass legislation to protect American jobs from outsourcing; who enthusiastically embraced the GOP's full-throated defense of wealth and privilege.
Now they embrace another GOP millionaire who tells them blacks, Muslims, and Mexicans are the problem.
I'm sorry, my sympathy is just not there.
forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)The more alienated they'll get from the RW noise machine.
Beating Trump will go a long way towards discrediting this crap, and beating Trump with Bernie even more so.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)especially the "the robots are coming! the robots are coming!" cranks
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)The palpable hatred of white people seeps through the posts of some people here...