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The Angry White Poor:
Have they really been
neglected? If so, by whom? © 2016
For the last eight years, Republicans have controlled the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. In plain terms, during those eight years, Pres. Obama did not have absolute power to inflict his will on the country.
For another eight years, before Pres. Obama was elected, Republicans also controlled the White House AND the Congress.
That was 16 years of Republican control. During the eight years that Bush2 was president, Americans saw over 800,000 jobs losts every month. They saw the housing market collapse. They saw the stock market collapse and their retirement savings plunge. They saw gas prices rise, they saw the auto industry on the verge of going under and taking thousands of jobs with it. Not once during those horrible years did the “white poor” protest the mess the Republican left.
During his presidency, Pres. Obama stopped the loss of 800,000 jobs each month, and new jobs have been added every month. Gas prices are the cheapest they’ve been in years. The stock market has doubled since the time he took office, and the auto industry was saved and is hiring workers. Despite ongoing opposition from Republicans, the Obama Administration reversed most of those problems it inherited from Republicans.
However, during those particularly bad times, when Republicans had control, you never heard an outcry from the white poor, and you never heard them making claims of being neglected. When Pres. Reagan offered illegal immigrants virtual amnesty, you never heard them complain then.
The white poor have been riding the Republican bandwagon since Pres. Lyndon Johnson became president. The white poor deserted Johnson, a white southerner, and the Democrats, after both adopted more progressive policies on civil rights. But Johnson’s war on poverty wasn’t simply aimed at Blacks or others, the poor of all races benefitted. Yet, the white poor put prejudice ahead of common sense. Over and over, the white poor have voted against their own best interest due to their prejudice.
This brief summary is intended to show that the claims of the white poor to justify voting for Trump are nothing but a fig leaf to cover up their sexism, racism and raw prejudice towards others. The vote for Trump, pure and simple, was about anger, meanness and bigotry.
Pres. Obama has proposed countless legislation to stimulate jobs, including infrastructure programs that could have employed thousands of Americans. But like most of his proposals to help all Americans, Republicans blocked them.
Yet there was no outcry from the white poor directed at the Republicans to stop interfering with programs that could help them including the much maligned “Obamacare” that provided medical care to millions of Americans who didn’t have health insurance. Whatever anger the white poor, the black poor, and the Hispanic poor may have, should be directed at Republicans.
It is ironic that the white poor, or any poor group, would hitch their hopes and dreams to a Republican Party that has always favored the rich over the poor.
The white poor has been more than willing to ignore all of the Republican’s failures, for the same reason they were willing to overlook Trump’s list of issues, because each catered to their prejudices as a means to achieve political power and to retain it.
The white poor have proven they will vote for any unqualified, sham of a person so long as that person approves of and encourages their bigotry.
Know this, bigotry is like a mad disease that’s immune to facts, figures, truth, and common sense.
Have they really been
neglected? If so, by whom? © 2016
For the last eight years, Republicans have controlled the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. In plain terms, during those eight years, Pres. Obama did not have absolute power to inflict his will on the country.
For another eight years, before Pres. Obama was elected, Republicans also controlled the White House AND the Congress.
That was 16 years of Republican control. During the eight years that Bush2 was president, Americans saw over 800,000 jobs losts every month. They saw the housing market collapse. They saw the stock market collapse and their retirement savings plunge. They saw gas prices rise, they saw the auto industry on the verge of going under and taking thousands of jobs with it. Not once during those horrible years did the “white poor” protest the mess the Republican left.
During his presidency, Pres. Obama stopped the loss of 800,000 jobs each month, and new jobs have been added every month. Gas prices are the cheapest they’ve been in years. The stock market has doubled since the time he took office, and the auto industry was saved and is hiring workers. Despite ongoing opposition from Republicans, the Obama Administration reversed most of those problems it inherited from Republicans.
However, during those particularly bad times, when Republicans had control, you never heard an outcry from the white poor, and you never heard them making claims of being neglected. When Pres. Reagan offered illegal immigrants virtual amnesty, you never heard them complain then.
The white poor have been riding the Republican bandwagon since Pres. Lyndon Johnson became president. The white poor deserted Johnson, a white southerner, and the Democrats, after both adopted more progressive policies on civil rights. But Johnson’s war on poverty wasn’t simply aimed at Blacks or others, the poor of all races benefitted. Yet, the white poor put prejudice ahead of common sense. Over and over, the white poor have voted against their own best interest due to their prejudice.
This brief summary is intended to show that the claims of the white poor to justify voting for Trump are nothing but a fig leaf to cover up their sexism, racism and raw prejudice towards others. The vote for Trump, pure and simple, was about anger, meanness and bigotry.
Pres. Obama has proposed countless legislation to stimulate jobs, including infrastructure programs that could have employed thousands of Americans. But like most of his proposals to help all Americans, Republicans blocked them.
Yet there was no outcry from the white poor directed at the Republicans to stop interfering with programs that could help them including the much maligned “Obamacare” that provided medical care to millions of Americans who didn’t have health insurance. Whatever anger the white poor, the black poor, and the Hispanic poor may have, should be directed at Republicans.
It is ironic that the white poor, or any poor group, would hitch their hopes and dreams to a Republican Party that has always favored the rich over the poor.
The white poor has been more than willing to ignore all of the Republican’s failures, for the same reason they were willing to overlook Trump’s list of issues, because each catered to their prejudices as a means to achieve political power and to retain it.
The white poor have proven they will vote for any unqualified, sham of a person so long as that person approves of and encourages their bigotry.
Know this, bigotry is like a mad disease that’s immune to facts, figures, truth, and common sense.