2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumConservative media now blaming poor and middle class whites for their economic troubles.
Conservatives just can't face the truth that they created Trump and have encouraged his supporters with red meat and dog whistles for decades. Now the conservative media is using the exact same language they use to blame minorities for the disaster of Republican policies. Blame the victim is how they roll.
Following is an excerpt from a National Review article in which poor and middle class whites are blamed for their economic troubles, telling whites that they are lazy and immoral. It is an astonishing article only for the fact that, like Donald Trump, they are finally saying out loud what used to be said in code.
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.
The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles 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/article/432876/donald-trump-white-working-class-dysfunction-real-opportunity-needed-not-trump
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)the 1% end game comes to fruition.
Republicans can dump their base and DINOs can dump theirs.
RIP USA
I wasn't running the three restaurants that went belly up when I worked there. The coke snorting owners or the gambling junky owners or the shady husband of the owner did that. The steel workers didn't pass NAFTA. We didn't raise tuition rates to prohibitive heights. We haven't kept minimum wage at poverty levels. We didn't engage Wall St criminality or rig the credit rating of their debt swaps. We didn't hand billionaires tax cuts while our bridges collapsed. We didn't poison people with lead filled water. We didn't lie to America about WMD's and spend trillions killing Muslims.
F you, NR.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Ayn Rand worshiping fake christian dominunist preachers to put the genie back in the bottle. Its time to pay the piper assholes!
They rode that tiger for quite awhile. Now its hungry for blood, good old mainline republican blood! HAHA!
The Frankenstein monster they created via Limbaugh/Hannity/fox news/Beck, etc broke out of his chains and is terrorizing the republican village.
Except this time the villagers aren't trying to stop him with their pitchforks and torches, they are one with the monster!
I will enjoy watching the republican party eating its own children and burning up on a funeral pyre of hate and destruction!
I hope they give the party a proper burial somewhere so the public can come and show its respect by pissing on its fucking grave!
Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)to be the meal instead.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)The 1% has always found a way to make everyone else feel inadequate and unworthy. They will never, ever own up to their own complicity in the manipulation of capitalism which makes it impossible for "the average Joe " & his family to get a step up.