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In reply to the discussion: 2 black kids adopted by white Republicans 40 years ago [View all]Warpy
(111,147 posts)with declining wages and disappearing jobs. Women and POC already had mostly shit wages, so we haven't felt the brunt of it.
The right wing has done a great job at pointing at POC as the reason white males are feeling that very real pinch. Never mind all those corporate bastards who offshored the good jobs, the Republican governments that busted the unions, and the Democratic conservatives that rubber stamped Reagan's ruinous tax code that shifted wealth away from the working and to the super rich, the "news" aimed at white males has always pointed to other working people as their problem.
It's likely to get a whole lot worse before it gets better, Democrats don't seem to have a clue how to reach these guys. It might have been different had other groups been raised instead of the apex group being pushed down, but that never seems to occur to conservatives, no matter which party they claim.