It Bears Repeating

I have said this many times over the years on this blog, but I think after every election it needs to be said again. It is "aggrieved entitlement" of white males, the type who support Republicans in election after election and who form the basis of Trump's support, that is a cancer on American politics. It isn't just racism-sexism is even more the reason. And the thing is, they are lost. You can't change them. Democrats should never pander to them in any way. They believe everything is owed to them just because they are white males. I quit caring about them long ago because these dudes kept voting the wrong way election after election. It's time to cut these men loose and let them die off.

The time for them to have cared about their plight was the 1980s, during the Reagan era, when jobs started going overseas, unions were being gutted, ruinous trade agreements were being signed. I was screaming about this trend 35 years ago. But what were the white dudes doing? Voting for the very politicians who were destroying of their way of life because those politicians fed into these men's sexism and racism. And the destruction of the standard of living was a deliberate policy on the part of the federal government, as it became enthralled with libertarian or neoliberal economic ideas of the crackpot Chicago School, specifically Milton Friedman. The white dudes then were just like the hard hats of the late 1960s forming the basis of Nixon's support and the white dudes of the Trump era now. They are racist, sexist bigots who think the world owes them "family wage" jobs and the "good life." Of course, the "family wage" was a terrible idea, the notion men deserved "family wages" and were given subsidies of much higher pay because they were assumed to have stay-at-home wives. It formed the basis of sex discrimination in the labor force. Women were not allowed "family wages." The "family wage" has largely died out though we still have the discrepancy of pay between men and women and the denigration of women's labor as a result of the "family wage." The mentality is sure alive, as we see in these idiot white dudes who think they are owed.


Women don't owe these men anything since the MRA mentality is also a big part of their "aggrieved entitlement." They need to get off their asses and make something of their lives. These men need to get with the times or get left behind. I quit giving a shit about them.

And what about the idea of trying to persuade these men the answer to their "plight" is government works programs ala FDR to jumpstart the economy? While I totally agree with this, the problem is the white dudes have been so totally brainwashed by right-wing media and politicians to believe government is the problem, it won't make any headway with them. They really and truly are lost.

These men have to die off, and they are numerically now and increasingly the minority in the United States. They long have been the minority but they are not a protected class or oppressed in any way because they are the ones in power. It doesn't matter their specific economic situation. They want to keep their unearned privilege intact and force women and minorities to the economic fringes. Since they are the antithesis of everything the modern Democratic Party stands for, they cannot be pandered to in any way, Bernie Sanders, Thomas Frank, and Michael Moore bullshit to the contrary.