Well who cares about rural white men anyway?
Obama and the Democrats owe them nothing. They've done nothing for this country but stoke race and class resentment at home and serve as cannon fodder for unnecessary wars abroad. They hate minorities, gays, pretty much anyone who isn't like them.
Romney and the Republicans don't owe them anything either. Guys like Romney would just as soon replace them with robots. Or if you can't get a robot, get some little Chinaman to do the same job for a tenth the cost. Cap their SSI benefits. Make it impossible for them to afford to retire and next to impossible for their kids to go to college. They'll still vote for the "working man's" party (even if most of them are laid off).
And they'll go on living in their alternate reality where they think the rest of us are mooching off them and that they're always being cheated and put upon. They always point their pitchforks at the wrong people. Schoolteachers. Black single moms. Do they really think they're to blame for the fact that a high school education doesn't get you into the middle class anymore? They ought to pick on somebody their own size for a change. Like their fellow white men - the ones who laid them off, for example.
I should clarify what I thought was beautiful about this post. It's the idea, that some in this country have, that just because your white you are inherently entitled to things. I was thinking more along the lines of the Tea Party/Pat Buchanan types who long for the 1950s and other demographics knew their place in society.
However, it raises a bigger issue. What about those white, non-college educated, mostly non-ideological, working class types who feel betrayed? They have every right to feel that way. If you were one of these people, I don't understand what the Democratic Party has to offer you. They don't have anything, but unlike Republicans, Democrats don't even attempt to appeal to these people.
Republicans use these people. Democrats ignore these people. People would rather have manipulative attention given to them rather than be ignored. I don't understand why Democrats are afraid to talk about class.
