Why the fuck do we have Democrats trying to get us to sympathize with deplorables?

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205. I feel absolutely ZERO sympathy for them, and here is why...

Peter is a 21 year old honor student in Oklahoma. Not the stereotypical middle aged white guy, and yet.....

"We all live out in the wilderness, either in the middle of a forest or on a farm," he wrote. "Some people cannot leave their homes during times of unfortunate weather. Many still dry clothes by hanging them on wires with clothespins outside. These people are nowhere near the top, or even the middle, of any hierarchy. These people are scraping the bottom of the barrel, and they, seemingly, have nothing to benefit from maintaining the system of order that keeps them at the bottom." His county ended up going about 70 percent for Trump.

Okay, I get that. I'd feel ignored and helpless, too, right? But..

According to the 2010 census, the median household income in Peter's county is a little more than $45,000. By comparison, Detroit's is about $27,000 and Chicago's (with a higher cost of living) is just under $49,000. The poverty rate is 17.5 percent in the county and 7.6 percent in Peter's little town, compared with Chicago's 22.7 percent. The unemployment rate has hovered around 4 percent.

Hmmm. What is this? Why does a supposedly educated young person not know facts about his own county?

Oh but here we get a bit closer to where his thinking originates:

Peter thinks he's not a reactionary. Since that sounds like an insult, I'd like to think so, too. But in writing this piece, I did notice a line in his essay that I had glided over during my first two readings, maybe because I liked him too much to want to be scared by him. "One need only look to the Civil War and the lasting legacies of Reconstruction through to today's current racism and race issues to see what happens when the federal government forces its morals on dissenting parts of the country."

Sadly, I am limited by the three paragraph rule. But this article is required reading. It is chilling, really. So no. I'm not able to scrape up any sympathy. On the contrary: I'm more wary than I was before.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/donald-trump-2016-election-oklahoma-working-class