I'm through coddling the white working class

At a time China's economy is now majority service sector, these ignorant racist hicks try to drag us back into the 19th century? Why are we bound to create makework for them? Primitive economies are primarily primary and secondary sector, advanced economies are primarily tertiary sector. This is how it's always been. The decline of manufacturing is progress. These luddites need to be drug out of their cave and alerted to the fact that they are not owed jobs by the American people.
 
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blackascoal said:
Although I supported the Sanders movement, I wasn't a Bernie guy because I thought Clinton had the best chance to win .. and defeating Trump trumped all else.

I think the disconnect between Krugman and Sanders is that Krugman doesn't believe that Sanders has done the hard work necessary to make his agenda a reality. I agree with Krugman when he said that "being on the right side doesn't excuse you from doing the hard thinking." Many liberals suffer from that. It's not enough to just be right on an issue.

However, I disagree with Krugman on his characterizations of Sanders supporters. They don't all fit into the box of 'dreamers.'

One of the best things to come out of this election is the the lowering of the Clinton profile, and the raising of the Sanders movement .. although not necessarily Sanders himself.

Had Clinton won, democrats would have been stuck with the Clinton's forever. Now that they have been moved from center stage, it's time for democrats to move back to the Left and away from the DLC centrism of the Clinton's.
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I'm pissed at Clinton because I supported herfor months and she didn't even win. So much for electability. I am not some Trumptard traitor brocialist though.
 
#NotMyPresident said:
I'm pissed at Clinton because I supported herfor months and she didn't even win. So much for electability. I am not some Trumptard traitor brocialist though.
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Is it similar to giving a celebrity look a like a blowjob then realizing afterwards they were just some random hobo?
 
signalmankenneth said:
[FONT=&][1]Paul Krugman dismisses [2] Bernie Sanders's call for a populist Democratic Party that could recapture the white working class by "stand[ing] up to Wall Street, to the insurance companies, to the drug companies, to the fossil fuel industry." Krugman explains why he dismisses Sanders's populist program, which you can read in full for yourself, but here's one telling instance: Take "Clay County, [Kentucky], which the Times declared a few years ago to be the hardest place in America to live….

Independent estimates say that the uninsured rate fell from 27 percent in 2013 to 10 percent in 2016. That’s the effect of the Affordable Care Act, which Mrs. Clinton promised to preserve and extend but Mr. Trump promised to kill. Mr. Trump received 87 percent of Clay County’s vote."
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[FONT=&]In brief, the white working class rather consistently puts a gun to its (as well as our) head. As an ethnic class, it's economically irrational. "Trump Turning to Ultrawealthy to Steer Economic Policy," screams an above-the-fold NYT headline [3] this morning — an act as predictable any other Trumpian con. Trickle-down conservative elitism has been hustled as a poor man's populism for decades, with predictably ruinous effect. And the suckers took the bait again.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]About this, Krugman is as befuddled as any:

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The only way to make sense of what happened is to see the vote as an expression of, well, identity politics — some combination of white resentment at what voters see as favoritism toward nonwhites (even though it isn’t) and anger on the part of the less educated at liberal elites whom they imagine look down on them.


To be honest, I don’t fully understand this resentment. In particular, I don’t know why imagined liberal disdain inspires so much more anger than the very real disdain of conservatives who see the poverty of places like eastern Kentucky as a sign of the personal and moral inadequacy of their residents.

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[FONT=&]Financially, I'm not even up to white working-class status. Nonetheless, I'm sure my left-wing politics cast me, in the eyes of that class, as part of the infamous "liberal elite." I have this to say to them: You don't have to "imagine" that I look down on you. I do. There's nothing imaginary about my disdain for a voting bloc so spectacularly ignorant as to re-elevate a trickle-down conservative elitism that, in the hands of the most disgraceful demagogic buffoon ever, will cause yet more American wreckage. You deserve my disdain. You've earned it.
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[FONT=&]In Trumpism there reigns one untouchable political correctness: One should never question the virtue of the white working class. This class is superior to all others, it must be coddled, it must be endlessly praised, never criticized. It is the "real America." And yet, in return, the white working class is free to openly disdain all others.
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[FONT=&]To which I say, Horseshit. You can't doom America to four, grotesque years of Trumpism and then ask for my respect. What's about to befall us is on you — and you alone.

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here here


we won they cheated


we don't need the racist vote
 
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