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In reply to the discussion: What fueled right wingers, fathers rights, mens' rights, gun rights & teabaggers into existence? [View all]Warpy
(114,523 posts)White males have taken wage depression harder than any other group. The reason women are now making 77% of what men make instead of 60% is because men's wages have fallen faster and farther.
Add to that the loss of the Leave it to Beaver family paradigm where dad made the money and Mom stayed home and raised the kids while being his personal domestic cook and servant died a rapid and ignoble death as the rapid decline in white male purchasing power meant the income of women was absolutely vital to the household. Suddenly, he was expected to pitch in and do "women's work" or the woman in question would leave him.
White males had ample reason to be angry. I fault the Democratic Party for caving to the conservatives and taking economic issues largely off the table. Meanwhile, the Republicans have been going out and telling these guys to be angry at all the wrong people, when they should have been angry about fiscal conservatives in both parties. for screwing them on wages.
They should have been angry at the collapse of the New Deal and the shredding of the social contract. They should be angry at Republicans and conservative Democrats.
And that should be our challenge.