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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSince we're talking angry white male voters, I thought I'd break out this oldie with some minor edit
I've heard and read a lot about the angry middle class white male voter lately. Well, let me tell you that I fit that description.
I'm white. I'm 59. I'm middle class... and I'm pissed the eff off.
Im so blanking pissed I cant see straight!
Im angry that white middle class males support a Republican Party that has done nothing but shatter their lives, send their kids off to endless war, wrecked their labor rights, screwed their wages and told their mothers, wives, sisters, daughters and granddaughters that they arent smart enough and emotionally secure enough to control their own health care.
- Im pissed that they put Ronald Reagan into office twice, believing that it was their social safety net and economic protections, and NOT the profits of the 1% that had become bloated and ineffective.
- Im pissed that they have declared their enemy to be the fire-fighter who lives down the street, the teacher who teaches their kids, or the government employee that coaches their kids little league baseball team, simply because those Americans have a decent pension and benefits package. Im extremely ticked-off that they dont ask instead
WHY DO MY BENEFITS AND RETIREMENT PLANS SUCK SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!
- Im perturbed that they dont realize that 400 years of slavery, followed by 150 years of State-Sanctioned racism and discrimination
in housing
in employment
in education
in law enforcement
in voting
in mobility
might, JUST MIGHT, have something to do with some folks being mired in abject poverty.
- Im fucking apoplectic that the White Middle Class watched 5 and 6 year old kids get their fucking brains blown out and their torsos blown in half by military grade weapons and ammunition magazines, and allowed some LaPierre asshat to convince them that we couldnt do ONE reasonable fucking thing to make this mass-murder shit a little harder to carry out. Thats all we were asking
lets just make killing massive amounts of people just a little bit harder. Instead they listened to this ass-pickle from the NRA, who they KNOW in their heart of hearts, would be the first prick to turn tail and run in a barfight.
- Im pissed that theyve given away just about all the labor rights and social justice progress that their forefathers fought and died for, without so much as a whimper.
- Im beyond angry that they believed a guy with five Vietnam Era deferments and a guy that spent the war defending the Floribama Bar, were better suited to defend this country, or understand the sacrifices asked of our military, than the guy that did back-to-back Riverine tours in Nam with the Purple Hearts and Bronze Stars to prove it.
But what pisses me off the most is that theyve become frightened little pissants
either brainwashed by incessant horseshit on talk radio or constantly told by Faux News that, others and NOT their own effing votes and support for the asshat party, are the reason theyve been held back. Its never the fact that theyve bought into the trickle-down bullshit that has caused their wages to stagnate, their social safety net to be destroyed, or their employment rights to be diminished
NO
its always the fault of some other.
-Some mythical Welfare Queen
-Some immigrant picking lettuce for $20 a day
-Some LGBT person who just wants to be left the eff alone to love who they love and prosper in freedom
-Some Union Member that patrols their streets, teaches their spoiled ass kids, or protects their home from fire.
Hell NO! Admitting that theyve been played like fools for the past 40 years would require them to blame themselves, and they are way too cowardly to do that.
So what will they do? Theyll continue to vote for pricks like Donald Trump, or Chuck Grassley, or Mitch McConnell, or Ted Cruz, in the hopes that maybe if we just pump more wealth to the top, itll all start trickling down eventually. But hey, when it doesnt, theyll just blame the liberals, the hippies, the dope smokers and the queers.
These asshats, most making between $42-$47K a year with a shitty 401K and bare-bones health benefits, identify their enemy as their fellow American making between $46-$51K a year with a decent pension and benefits
and that pisses me off to no end.
And I'm nuclear weapon level pissed that for the last 3+ years, they have forced me to take seriously, a bunch of ignorant fucksticks that I know in the depths of my soul should NEVER be taken seriously.
They've turned my country into the laughing stock of the entire world by electing a guy as president that you would laugh at if you saw him on the street.
Jeebo
(2,023 posts)Thank you for that.
-- Ron
Wawannabe
(5,651 posts)It is very much how I feel as well.
Ugh. My stomach has a rock again.
I like it better when its burning with rage but right now it just sunk again. It was like I raged it out a bit as I read!
Maybe can get through a few more days before it builds again.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)I'm pissed I'm young and knowing how much longer I'll be here knowing that these individuals will continue to make this world unlivable
maxrandb
(15,320 posts)and you can change this shit.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)"It's Always someone else's fault, those (fill in blank here) !!"
Any wonder they follow him like lemming.
Spineless weasels.
My apologies to lemming and weasels. Really shouldn't compare those a-holes to animals. Animals don't deserve that.
Annie Moosee
(71 posts)especially since the lemmings were brutally thrown off the cliff by the film maker for the scene. And weasels do have spines... very flexible spines....
(follow the tRump like zombies? rotted, fetid zombies?)
DEbluedude
(816 posts)My thoughts exactly. It's astonishing how this country has devolved in the last 40 years. We really are living in dumbfuckistan. Along with the anger, I also weep for this nation.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,124 posts)+1000!
electric_blue68
(14,886 posts)my answer, too!
Solomon
(12,310 posts)I approve this message.
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)Thank you for this righteous rant!
MLAA
(17,282 posts)I am with the angry old white guy!
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)From an equally pissed and not just a little perplexed white male in his late 50s.
Peace.
nature-lover
(1,469 posts)We have to make sure that this is the last horrible presidency that we have to live through. Fortunately, both of my children are as pissed as I am and are politically active.
Ligyron
(7,627 posts)... and you did!
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)I'm just an angry old (64) white long haired hippie freek living in a fuckin red state where I can't talk about it.
CRK7376
(2,199 posts)pandr32
(11,579 posts)It is excellent!
Initech
(100,063 posts)bluestateboomer
(505 posts)With you demographically and emotionally too!!
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Karadeniz
(22,506 posts)LittleGirl
(8,282 posts)I'm 60 now and I could have recited this rant myself! Thank you for that. Cheers
NNadir
(33,512 posts)We are certainly not the majority in our demographic, but we are definitely opposed to the senile decrepit orange racist.
Aristus
(66,316 posts)Well said...