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In reply to the discussion: What fueled right wingers, fathers rights, mens' rights, gun rights & teabaggers into existence? [View all]whathehell
(30,408 posts)White middle class men with some education don't feel this as much, IMO, because they have more choices.
It's the offshoring of factories, the destruction of unions and then, on top of it, all this social "change".
Change can be hard for even those in better economic circumstances, but when you combine it with lack of
work and the desperation and lack of self-esteem that can bring, it can really all boil to a head.
P.S. By the way, I'm not sure this is just white men, either...South Central LA used to be filled with factories
and places for average guys to work, and now it's empty. You can't blame people for feeling depressed...The problem
is so many of these guys, mainly white I think, get steered to the Right and blame the wrong people.