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lumberjack_jeff

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27. Agree.

Reply to TexasBushwhacker (Reply #23)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 04:16 PM

Oct 2016

That was the core reason for my support of Sanders - economic populism. Show people who really is screwing them.

Failing that, the guilty will step up to pin the blame on others.

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"Working class white men make less than they did in 1996" [View all] lumberjack_jeff Oct 2016 OP

They are still doing much better than most of the rest of us, and those jobs are NEVER coming back. bravenak Oct 2016 #1

I'm deeply suspicious of this statistic. Donald Ian Rankin Oct 2016 #2

Here's what WaPo found lumberjack_jeff Oct 2016 #3

I'm not surprized by this at all. The University campuses are overwhelmingly female underahedgerow Oct 2016 #4

I teach community college, and my classes are at least 75% female. Coventina Oct 2016 #11

Do you consider that observation a problem that should be solved? n/t lumberjack_jeff Oct 2016 #12

Of course. This situation has a massive backlash across all of society in countless ways. underahedgerow Oct 2016 #13

It is extremely troubling to me, for all the reasons underahedgerow mentions. Coventina Oct 2016 #15

To what would you attribute this attitudinal change? lumberjack_jeff Oct 2016 #16

I have no idea. And, I agree that by college the trend is extremely difficult to reverse. Coventina Oct 2016 #17

I think young men are "opting out". MindPilot Oct 2016 #21

A number of Redditors also attributed part of it to college degree creep. Xithras Oct 2016 #24

I'm thinking its similar for blacks and Latinos, income insecurity is hear most by those who have uponit7771 Oct 2016 #5

"Trump's supporters might be comparatively well off" Starry Messenger Oct 2016 #6

it's hard to admit what it is that upsets them so much. JI7 Oct 2016 #7

Yup. Starry Messenger Oct 2016 #8

That posit doesn't explain why so many of them are overwhelmingly functionally illiterate underahedgerow Oct 2016 #14

It's the bigoted, jingoistic, hyper-masculine rhetoric. ronnie624 Oct 2016 #20

Less because of loss of jobs, less because of the loss of unions? ismnotwasm Oct 2016 #9

Both lumberjack_jeff Oct 2016 #10

More accurately, working class people are not all secure. LanternWaste Oct 2016 #19

We've had stagnant wages for decades. Rex Oct 2016 #18

I think white men have figured out where they stand nowadays AngryAmish Oct 2016 #22

The problem is that working class white men blame their losses TexasBushwhacker Oct 2016 #23

Agree. lumberjack_jeff Oct 2016 #27

Often blaming their lack of success on people of color TexasBushwhacker Oct 2016 #29

GOP has been systematically busting unions for years. Kingofalldems Oct 2016 #25

It's a lot easier to bust unions when the employment to population ratio is low. n/t lumberjack_jeff Oct 2016 #28

This is last years numbers Go Vols Oct 2016 #26