Those people in the upper midwest

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Odin Wrote:Scared, desperate people are easy prey for demagogues promising easy solutions, scapegoats, and a return to the "good old days". The blame falls on the Dems for not putting forward a populist message to counter Trump's BS.

Yes, exactly.

Quote:Indeed, the Dems did the exact WRONG things, putting up a candidate who is the embodiment of the establishment in an election year when the electorate was out for the establishment's blood.

I completely agree. I'd add the DNC's stacking the deck for Hillary played a large roll. The arrogance shown by Wikileaks is astounding.  They just thought they'd never get caught, ever. They just thought they could shill themselves off to special interests and never get caught, they just thought the super delegate system would get a pass THIS TIME!  would get a pass, they just thought outrageous speakers fees for their "chosen one" would get a pass.  They just thought identity politics  plays in Peoria would be the magic formula this time. Here's the deal, I don't give a rat's ass about pandering to assorted group identities.  Guess what?  They left out some groups. No mention of desperate white males, no mention of Asians???!!!! no mention of Natives Americans even. When you pander to identity groups, you're gonna leave out some stuff.

Quote:Praising years of economic growth that folks in Middle America are not seeing because all that new wealth is concentrated among the wealthy and middle class on the coasts, sounding completely tone-deaf in the process and reinforcing sentiments that the Dems have become the party of the "coastal elites", representing Wall Street and Silicon Valley rather than the average American.

For fuck sake Odin, stop reading my mind!

Quote:Not restraining over-the-top activist types who imply that working class whites have no right to complain about their problems because of "white privilege".

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Yes, there's nothing like ignoring folks to piss 'em off.

Telling older blue collar workers that they just need "retraining", ignoring that older workers would still struggle to find work because of effectively ageist hiring practices, and also ignoring that many of these new jobs mean moving across the country, destroying the bonds of community these people and their families have built up over the years.

Quote:In the long term some form of guaranteed minimum income is the only answer, but that requires overcoming centuries, millennia even, of cultural conditioning involving the belief that the only valid source of income is from one's own labor. In the mean time, folks here in the heartland need jobs. and folks in the big cities on the coasts need to quit treating folks out here as objects of contempt and scorn. You might not agree with their religious convictions and what you perceive as "backward" social attitudes, but they are still human beings who deserve respect.

I totally agree.  And... forget this stupid "job training" shit that folks have to go through to get unemployment insurance.  Hey Washington, there's no fucking jobs to go to after said training and it leaves folks with a bunch of fuckshit student loan debt.

P.S.

You might want to send your post to the New York Crimes, The Washington Boast, etc.  I mean it. Those idiots need that sort of info.

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