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In reply to the discussion: I am grateful that people are finally realizing the level of corruption and conspiracy it took [View all]IronLionZion
(51,035 posts)I would hope for Kamala.
I thought Hillary was going to win big. A lot of folks did.
Cultural anxiety is real. And calling people racist and sexist probably doesn't help them to be less racist and sexist. There are a lot of changes in America including the nature of many jobs and education, and where it's located. The rust belt lost people too, not just jobs. Liberals move and adapt. Conservatives tend to own land and dig deep roots and dream of some imaginary past that never existed.
A lot of the problems they are blaming on immigrants, have more to do with corporations changing the nature of their business models in ways that people who can't or don't want to adapt are left out. Automation and new technology are major culprits in the need for less labor in many jobs. I doubt that any immigrants are stealing coal jobs. Or feminists. Maybe the environmentalists are just filled with spite?
But people don't want to acknowledge the role of fracking and cheap natural gas.
Just like they won't acknowledge that millions of people who look like me are born in America, legally, as US citizens. Sure, they act as if the enemies of America are infiltrating our government and burrowing into the deep state like dirty brown moles who need to be fired. But really, they don't want competition for jobs that are reserved for US citizens. It's gotten so bad that our military's training started to include diversity components to teach people that someone is not suspicious just because they are brown or have a difficult to pronounce name. Sometimes suspicious people look like Snowden, Manning, Robert Hansen, Aldrich Ames, etc.
Americans are not white. Whites (not mixed, not Hispanic) are about 60% of US citizens now and decreasing. Some people delude themselves into believing this can't be true, because they are afraid. And this also happens on our side with well-intentioned liberals who also think the default American is white. It baffles some people.
And some are baffled by feminism and don't know what to make of it. So they vote against the woman who forgot to stay home with her grandkids and bake cookies and knit.