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wcast

(595 posts)
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 08:53 AM Mar 2016

Conservative 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.

It is immoral because it perpetuates a lie: that the white working class that finds itself attracted to Trump has been victimized by outside forces. It hasn’t. The white middle class may like the idea of Trump as a giant pulsing humanoid middle finger held up in the face of the Cathedral, they may sing hymns to Trump the destroyer and whisper darkly about “globalists” and — odious, stupid term — “the Establishment,” but nobody did this to them. They failed themselves.

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 wasn’t Beijing. It wasn’t even Washington, as bad as Washington can be. It wasn’t immigrants from Mexico, excessive and problematic as our current immigration levels are. It wasn’t 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 wasn’t some awful disaster. There wasn’t 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 ain’t 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 Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isn’t 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
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Conservative media now blaming poor and middle class whites for their economic troubles. (Original Post) wcast Mar 2016 OP
with either current front runner PowerToThePeople Mar 2016 #1
Geez tazkcmo Mar 2016 #2
Its too late for the hate monger koch bros, casino owners, Moonies, workinclasszero Mar 2016 #3
Let the Ivy League reich-wing conservatives eat their young because they will only find themselves Kip Humphrey Mar 2016 #4
That's nothing new .... Myrina Mar 2016 #5
 

PowerToThePeople

(9,610 posts)
1. with either current front runner
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 09:17 AM
Mar 2016

the 1% end game comes to fruition.

Republicans can dump their base and DINOs can dump theirs.

RIP USA

tazkcmo

(7,286 posts)
2. Geez
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 09:20 AM
Mar 2016

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)
3. Its too late for the hate monger koch bros, casino owners, Moonies,
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 09:22 AM
Mar 2016

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)
4. Let the Ivy League reich-wing conservatives eat their young because they will only find themselves
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 09:32 AM
Mar 2016

to be the meal instead.

Myrina

(12,296 posts)
5. That's nothing new ....
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 09:32 AM
Mar 2016

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.

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