The greatest risk to America
”continued class cluelessness"
The suggestion that the WWC will continue to gravitate towards Trump types because:
"Directness is a working-class norm,”
“If you have a problem with me, come talk to me. If you have a way you want something done, come talk to me. I don’t like people who play these two-faced games.”
Manly dignity is a big deal for working-class men, and they’re not feeling that they have it.
Trump promises a world free of political correctness and a return to an earlier era, when men were men and women knew their place.
For many blue-collar men, all they’re asking for is basic human dignity (male varietal). Trump promises to deliver it.
Here's where I have a big issue with that article-
the answer to the problems of voters supporting a candidate who runs on a racist and sexist ticket?economic policies that give the WWC steady jobs and restores their sense of manly dignity.
Hey presto no more racism (because the argument here is that the WWC are not racist) and sure sexism and homophobia are no biggies.
Basic human dignity applies to the manly variety only it would seem.
Working in manufacturing I've worked with WWC for years now, WWC who have those settled decent paid jobs for 20 to 30 years on average - mortgages fully paid, holiday homes abroad
ie better off in a material sense than any of the under 40 college educated who manage them.
And yet of the people that I know they are the most openly and coldly racist.
No contest.
Why?
Am I misunderstanding their motivations when they say we need to control immigration?
That immigrants come here to live on the dole and sell drugs?
That they're "taking jobs"?
That they're all criminals?
I'm coming to the conclusion that there are a multitude of reasons for the rise of Trump - from the influence of his reality TV persona, to social media and the acceptance of lies, to the disaffection of WWC, to the hatred evangelical Christians had for Hilary's stance on abortion, to Hilary's age and gender, to inherent racism and misogyny and so on
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Pinning so much on America's class cluelessness, suggesting that if the WWC could be mollified with good jobs that the racism and hatred exposed in this campaign would not be an issue in the future avoids the thorny subject that the WWC are a group who have zero interest in the dignity of those who are "other" and that it was a voting public broader and bigger than WWC who voted for Trump.
