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In reply to the discussion: You guys can't keep doing this. Working class white man here. [View all]
Aristus
(72,122 posts)107. I'm with JI7 on this one.
It isn't the middle class and wealthy white Trump supporters we keep hearing about. It's stories about how the Democratic Party dropped the ball when trying to win the white working class voter.
Stories about the poor, oppressed downtrodden white working class male who has been "forgotten", "overlooked", "taken for granted", whose "voice has gone unheard".
Ony to find out they don't really care about whatever issue Trump is spewing about; they just love his crassness, idiocy, and bigotry. We have unemployed coal miners in West Virginia refusing state-sponsored job re-training because they're sure Trump will fix everything. We have virulent working-class white supramacists dragging their bedsheets and duncecaps out of the closet, not because they are unemployed and desperate, but because Trump has lent an illusory validity to their repulsive beliefs.
If Buford and Lurleen Redneck of Trailerville are such progressives, let them step up to the ballot box and prove it.
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if they voted for Trump they are involved in the political process. and they told us why they voted
JI7
Nov 2017
#2
everyone who voted for him is shit. and there is nothing wrong with calling out the low income
JI7
Nov 2017
#6
Jesus Christ! The problem is that you guys are calling ALL of us shit and bigots.
Tobin S.
Nov 2017
#7
we do. but we don't continually get people going on about the goodness of those groups
JI7
Nov 2017
#8
That is nonsense...my own son is 'working class' although after being laid off from GM is seems
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
#71
I'll delete the post since it doesn't address Tobin's concern. I think my response is #95...
Corvo Bianco
Nov 2017
#121
Anyone who voted for the Nazi-in-Chief is a POS... period! Fuck them all!!!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Nov 2017
#32
My 26 year old son is an electrician, and everyone he works with voted for Trump
adigal
Nov 2017
#145
Just amazing how all those rich and middle class voters just happen to live out in the sticks
n2doc
Nov 2017
#3
Did you read the article? I thought the Washington Post was a respected news source here.
Tobin S.
Nov 2017
#5
Okay I think the problem here is that you don't like being "lumped in" with Trump supporters.
Corvo Bianco
Nov 2017
#95
You're on DU. Posters here are more knowledgeable than to assign a whole demograhic segment...
brush
Nov 2017
#112
The groups in your last sentence are the ones who deserve all the scorn we heap upon them.
brush
Nov 2017
#156
Not to be argumentative or snarky, but now you know how we Southerners or Texans
Stonepounder
Nov 2017
#157
The media's interviews with voters conrtibute to our impression of each other.
Jim Beard
Nov 2017
#173
The county where I live and vote went the lightest pink in the general election.
PufPuf23
Nov 2017
#129
That might be the reality where you live, but it is not representative of Trump's entire base.
Tobin S.
Nov 2017
#10
The first half of your post was very good and you should have stopped right there.
Tobin S.
Nov 2017
#19
I seriously doubt that you're going to get anywhere by reasoning with cult followers
Cary
Nov 2017
#82
Just make them watch the shiney silver dollar you started spinning on the table
Jim Beard
Nov 2017
#174
Yes. By all means, shame them and tell them that they're terminally stupid.
WillowTree
Nov 2017
#100
The upper middle class who voted for Trump dont give a shit about your shaming.
cwydro
Nov 2017
#123
The sub thread kinda veered off topic, but that doesn't change the fact they should be ashamed of
mdbl
Nov 2017
#124
Well, for a fact, some unions turned their backs on Hillary in 2016 and voted for Trump and the
mamas
Nov 2017
#37
That's in the ANES study; this says they put the overall 4 year college degree figure at 62%
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2017
#42
you need to stop taking this stuff personally, the demographics are pretty clear and you are
beachbum bob
Nov 2017
#22
? A majority of white men ... DID ... vote for Red Don. That doesn't mean demean them though
uponit7771
Nov 2017
#65
Yes please: Let us know how that conversation goes AND Get back to us with your results!
Madam45for2923
Nov 2017
#76
Please post a few examples of DUers attacking white working men as one monolithic group
BamaRefugee
Nov 2017
#36
you asked...But posts that simply blame that entire group? Nah. Don't think so.
questionseverything
Nov 2017
#136
that was the point I was making. He picked out 3 lines out of a thread with HUNDREDS of responses
BamaRefugee
Nov 2017
#137
actually i said "post 3 to 5 DISCUSSIONS where white males were attacked end masse"
BamaRefugee
Nov 2017
#159
You do understand that most things you talk about also apply to working class people of color
ehrnst
Nov 2017
#48
I've been in that boat my entire life. Hard work and never made big money. I'm just under 40k
brewens
Nov 2017
#53
Republicans don't have solutions for WWC workweek beside feel-good-now-racism & religion un-freedom
Madam45for2923
Nov 2017
#61
Ah misogyny it is baked into the whole she-bang PIE and cannot be separated.
Madam45for2923
Nov 2017
#102
The average Republican isn't just a middle class to wealthy class white male voter.
Baitball Blogger
Nov 2017
#79
Sorry, but a lot of us poor whites are racist morons looking for someone to blame for their life.
PubliusEnigma
Nov 2017
#81
I'm am also a black woman and I agree with you. Whether real or perceived, if poor white men feel
SweetieD
Nov 2017
#117
I think the reason "they" say that is because the white working male group in 3 states....
Honeycombe8
Nov 2017
#133
I, for one, am sick of to death of hearing about white male grievance, and this is just another....
Tarheel_Dem
Nov 2017
#140
Shockingly, income does not equal 'class.' The MSM just keeps assuming that
TrollBuster9090
Nov 2017
#142
Yep, it's a soft prejudice of the media. Without doing actual research, they just assume that
TrollBuster9090
Nov 2017
#163
Tobin doesn't really need my help or support, perhaps, but I'd point this out:
PatrickforO
Nov 2017
#146