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Republicans are finally showing their true colors. They have such a hard time believing Trump is their creation. For decades Republicans have instituted policies designed to keep minorities down while pretending that the fault lay with those communities devastated by Republican policies. Now Republicans are using the exact same language to describe poor and middle class whites, blaming them for the problems created by Republicans caring only about the rich.
Following is an excerpt from the National Review. Maybe this will finally open their eyes.
If you spend time in hardscrabble, white upstate New York, or eastern Kentucky, or my own native West Texas, and you take an honest look at the welfare dependency, the drug and alcohol addiction, the family anarchy which is to say, the whelping of human children with all the respect and wisdom of a stray dog you will come to an awful realization. It wasnt Beijing. It wasnt even Washington, as bad as Washington can be. It wasnt immigrants from Mexico, excessive and problematic as our current immigration levels are. It wasnt any of that. Nothing happened to them. There wasnt some awful disaster. There wasnt a war or a famine or a plague or a foreign occupation. Even the economic changes of the past few decades do very little to explain the dysfunction and negligence and the incomprehensible malice of poor white America. So the gypsum business in Garbutt aint what it used to be. There is more to life in the 21st century than wallboard and cheap sentimentality about how the Man closed the factories down.
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.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432796/working-class-whites-have-moral-responsibilities-defense-kevin-williamson
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)It was only a matter of time.
wcast
(595 posts)Theory was the social collapse of the AA community was due to economic collapse in their communities. Middle class whites are now showing the same collapse. I hope this will be a catalyst that opens eyes as the communities that are described in the OP are similar to my community. Here people vote Republican as a reflex and some seriously believe he is the antichrist.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)Thanks for the link. I'll bookmark for tomorrow.