RE: Why the Dems Lost
November 10, 2016 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2016 at 2:04 pm by Autumnlicious.)
I hate to agree with A Theist but he is right, but not in the obvious way.
I was asked by one of my coworkers how this election happened. I said it was simple - the voters in the Rust belt, in Florida, in New Hampshire have no real jobs. No real economy except the service industry which will pay shit or drop them. It doesn't occur to them (the underemployed, unemployed) that they helped create that mess - only that they're suffering for it. Hell as a judgement, it seems, is lost upon the damned.
And the worst thing you could say to the Rust belt white voter? Anything that involves them moving. They''ll take it as a "Fuck you" and react in kind.
So she asked why don't they change jobs, getting an education if necessary. I said "Moving". Then why don't they go where the economy is (coasts) - again I said "Moving".
Look, we can debate about how this act of setting the House on fire is vindictive or we can focus that Whites set the damn House on fire.
Unlike any minority, this minority of Whites is going to increasingly destroy the US unless they are mollified. The problem grew this big and now they can make demands, however incoherent or insane. This was at least two decades in the making.
Every member of the press who gleefully posted outrageous stories of "The end of White men" - congratulations you galvanized them into support Trump. Every pundit who forgot to tell the difference between a small minority and a big one - here's your prize in threat analysis, a large enough minority to fuck everything.
I didn't want this, but don't be surprised that "business as usual" wasn't good enough for voters. Voting is hard to do. At least when you're:
- Underemployed (fear of losing your job even if you try to vote)
- Unemployed (demoralized and depressed)
- ignorant of absentee voting
- etc
I am in the thick of the economy on the West Coast, yet the income inequality rises. Doesn't that strike you as strange that the economic recovery has mostly gone to the wealthy on the Coasts, leaving the rubes of the rust belt dry?. I live off of their breadcrumbs, like many West Coast residents, and fear losing even that. How low our inclusive society has descended if we exchanged paradise for less pay if it was garanteed solely to us.
If the "angry White man" is to be answered, we have to move fast and kick our wealthy industrialists in the ass to employ more of the heartland before they find something worse than Trump. Because once you make a minority big enough, it's threat profile changes. And this minority has become big enough.
I was asked by one of my coworkers how this election happened. I said it was simple - the voters in the Rust belt, in Florida, in New Hampshire have no real jobs. No real economy except the service industry which will pay shit or drop them. It doesn't occur to them (the underemployed, unemployed) that they helped create that mess - only that they're suffering for it. Hell as a judgement, it seems, is lost upon the damned.
And the worst thing you could say to the Rust belt white voter? Anything that involves them moving. They''ll take it as a "Fuck you" and react in kind.
So she asked why don't they change jobs, getting an education if necessary. I said "Moving". Then why don't they go where the economy is (coasts) - again I said "Moving".
Look, we can debate about how this act of setting the House on fire is vindictive or we can focus that Whites set the damn House on fire.
Unlike any minority, this minority of Whites is going to increasingly destroy the US unless they are mollified. The problem grew this big and now they can make demands, however incoherent or insane. This was at least two decades in the making.
Every member of the press who gleefully posted outrageous stories of "The end of White men" - congratulations you galvanized them into support Trump. Every pundit who forgot to tell the difference between a small minority and a big one - here's your prize in threat analysis, a large enough minority to fuck everything.
I didn't want this, but don't be surprised that "business as usual" wasn't good enough for voters. Voting is hard to do. At least when you're:
- Underemployed (fear of losing your job even if you try to vote)
- Unemployed (demoralized and depressed)
- ignorant of absentee voting
- etc
I am in the thick of the economy on the West Coast, yet the income inequality rises. Doesn't that strike you as strange that the economic recovery has mostly gone to the wealthy on the Coasts, leaving the rubes of the rust belt dry?. I live off of their breadcrumbs, like many West Coast residents, and fear losing even that. How low our inclusive society has descended if we exchanged paradise for less pay if it was garanteed solely to us.
If the "angry White man" is to be answered, we have to move fast and kick our wealthy industrialists in the ass to employ more of the heartland before they find something worse than Trump. Because once you make a minority big enough, it's threat profile changes. And this minority has become big enough.
Slave to the Patriarchy no more
