America's Heartland Benefited From Obama's Economy Better Than Most Think

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No s***, they won't realize it because they are addicted to the drug that is a culture war obsession.

Indeed. When will the GOP stop running on white identity politics?

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Misleading statistics to further a political point. House prices and GDP growth rate don't matter when wages have been continually falling, income inequality rising, poverty rising, combined with a growing opioid crisis. Many of the American working class since 08' have become the American working class and Obama did nothing to rectify such a problem.

This.

But also, I love how when it comes to minority groups Liberals crow, “we should listen to their perspectives, let them tell their experiences and not try to talk over them or judge them!” Which is true, we shouldn’t; as a White man, I simply don’t and never will know what it’s like to be an African American woman in this country. However, for Liberals, when it comes to White people struggling, particularly in America’s heartland, all you’ll hear is, “White trash pieces of sh**t are ingrates who simply don’t know how amazing our leaders have made it for them! Racist hicks need to suffer if they don’t do what we say!”

I am a literal "white working class male." I certainly fit the definition better than 99% of the posters here. And here's my perspective: the uneducated white trash racist hicks should stop blaming minorities for all their problems and take a look at two things: 1) the ACTUAL "elites" who they vote for and enthusiastically support that are robbing the poor, the middle class, the social safety net, etc. to pay for more tax cuts for themselves and 2) the mirror.

Given that I am a white working class male, you should take my perspective into consideration and stop being so condescending by calling me a coastal elitist.

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No s***, they won't realize it because they are addicted to the drug that is a culture war obsession.

Indeed. When will the GOP stop running on white identity politics?

Opposing abortion, secularism, internationalism, gun control, and drug legalization are white policies? Keep in mind that it was abortion, not immigration, that allowed evangelicals to hold their noses and vote for Trump. Don't mistake the tail for the dog no matter how long it is nor how hard it wags.

They can all be rooted in insecurities about your racial identity, yes.

  Can be? President Hillary Clinton can tell you how effective it is to blame people for not agreeing because they are deplorable, especially when there are valid non-deplorable reasons for holding positions.

You forgot black people kneeling, brown people existing, and Confederate traitor flags.

Anyway, Hillary Clinton couldn't tell you anything about that, since her Deplorables comment had zero impact on the election results.