The more you call white working class voters "racist" the more you will LOSE elections.

[TygrBright]

5. I am a white, working voter with plenty of "class" and NO ONE has called me racist.

Well, not recently.

Not since a black co-worker took me aside forty years back and had a little talk with me.

I *am* racist, of course. Because I was born white in a culture that privileges that status, and I live with that privilege even while I try to be aware of it and work to END it.

But I am getting fairly hacked off at the attempt to equate "white working class" with "buffoon asses."

So excuse me, if I C&P from my own post in another thread on this very topic:

Pretty much everyone I know works.

Pretty much all of them are classy, for what that's worth.

And a lot of them are white, too.

And all of them, I'm pretty sure, believe that pretty much everything the Nuclear Cheeto said on the campaign trail is toxic, vapid, divisive, opportunistic bullshit.

So where does that leave these "white working class" people in a world where we're redefining "white working class" to mean "people who want the power structure to reward them for having white skin, being Christian, and hating on people who live in cities, people who live on the coasts, people who appreciate education, diversity and progress, and people who understand that it's not our great-grandparents' world anymore"?

Sorry, fuck that noise.

I have lived in rural areas. I have lived in small towns. Living in a rural area or a small town does not automatically entitle you to some kind of special victim status just because you hate dealing with a world that's increasingly diverse and urban.

Yes, I *get* that rural areas have special problems and challenges, holy FUCK, do I get that, I LIVE IN A FRONTIER STATE and we have, like ONE nurse practitioner for whole counties that cover hundreds of square miles and have no towns larger than a few hundred people. And grotesquely polluted waterways and toxic land thanks so much to the extraction industries that extracted, dumped, and then moved on to places where labor was even cheaper. But wanting the mining companies and the gas and oil companies to come back and pay big wages for a few years while extracting some more and dumping more toxic crap into the soil and water to give our grandkids cancer is NOT going to solve our problems.

Yet the dumb shits in the oil and gas fields expect the Democratic Party to stand respectfully back, bow, and say "oh, okay, we'll stop trying to clean up the earth so everyone's grandchildren can live, just so Y'ALL can get back an oilfield job and buy a new truck, no problem"?

Well, fuck THAT, too.

Except, yanno...

...they don't.

Not the ones I know.

Oh, yeah, there's some that think like that, and I have no sympathy for what they're going to feel when they realize they're not only going to get buttreamed again, but they dropped their own trousis and bent over for it.

But, honestly, I don't really know who these "white working class" people that are the salt of the earth- you know, MORONS- are, other than a noisy, willfully ignorant bunch of nativist, racist dickheads that I want no truck with anyway. Sorry.

I'm really, really, REALLY sorry that there appear to be so MANY more of them, than I ever imagined-- enough more of them to provide cover for a putsch that is installing a parliament of putzes into the Executive Branch of our nation's government.

I'm damn' sorry about that, indeed.

But if it comes down to a choice between brownnosing a much larger group of mean, ignorant, fearful assholes than I suspected existed, or sticking with people who care about my grandchildren's future, the air they breathe, whether they can marry anyone they love no matter what gender they are or where they immigrated from-- that's a damn' easy choice for me to make.

So, yeah, if it comes down to treating racist buffoon asses all kissy-kissy just to win elections?

FUCK THAT.

I'd rather LOSE and have integrity.

But in the long run, we won't have to.

"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice."

proudly,
Bright