2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I don't buy into the "Americans are angry" bullshit. [View all]JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Back then, a huge number of jobs were being lost each month.
People were losing their homes.
Tax dollars were going to save Wall Street, only to learn that CEOs of failing firms were giving themselves outrageously huge bonuses.
American car companies were on the brink of going under.
Two wars were raging hot, so much so that Sunday talk shows ran lists of the weekly war dead.
The bloated corpses of American citizens floated unattended in the flood waters of New Orleans.
The stock market and the global economy were cratering.
But at that time, there was little more than tired resignation.
However, now that the economy has made huge improvements under Obama, with the exception of wage stagnation, angry white men are lighting their torches and grabbing their pitchforks because of how bad things are going for them.
The only logical explanation is, as you say, they're pissed about having a black guy in the White House.