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6. No one wants to say it in these postmortem threads but non-progressive white men are the problem
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 01:07 AM
Dec 2016

Many seem to feel that the country and top-of-the-heap entitlements are their birth right, and the working class among them resent that the straight-out-of-high school, high paying, unionized jobs they've had for generations have been off-shored or automated, with some remaining ones even being held by blacks and other POCs.

That resentment apparently numbed some brain cells as they participated in, starting in the Reagan's era, with the demolition of the very unions that built those factory wages up to solid middle class ones.

Apparently those union dues being automatically taken out of their paychecks was too much to bear so they voted repeatedly for repugs whose clients were the very corporate bigwigs who were weakening unions and off-shoring and automating their jobs.

But being against trade issues is too little, too late now as those jobs are long gone and not coming back andTrump, who they also voted for and claims to be against the TPP, has his clothing lines made in China, Bangladesh and India.

Go figure.

I know one thing though, those white male repug voters need to smarten up and pay attention to who is doing what to them, and without any lube even.



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