re: Book- I spent 5 years in Louisiana talking to Trump voters, here is what I found

He's in here melting sooo hard.

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THEN THEY. Need to get a skill set that is in accordance with the times or they will be left behind? Why are we being empathetic for this group but not others. Isn't they how our economic system is supposed to works? Isn't this the freest and truest economic system The world has ever seen? Let their creation work on them--- they are at its mercy too if they refuse to evolve

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This sounds like a Republican or Libertarian posted this, not some fricking Leftist POS.

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These people aren't skipping you in line

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You dont understand affirmative action and mandated quotas. That is exactly what happens.

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moar white guilt!

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That's all the racists have left is projecting their racism

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Being white isn't enough to get you a high paying job with a low paying skill set anymore.

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What the hell do you think we are complaining about?!?

Yeah, frick Muhammad because he came and is taking over the world of medicine. You really want this to be the narrative, but it's not.

America has low, if not the lowest, skill set immigrants coming into the country. Canada takes in mostly high-skilled workers in contrast, as do most other countries try to do.

Yes, our country has many low-skill set workers out of jobs that have a hard time getting into the workforce, but the immigration is most of the damn reason they can't find a job.

Affirmative action and things alike have shown to take away spots from significantly qualified white individuals and give them to significantly unqualified other individuals, who have shown to have lower graduation rates and scores as their counterparts after enrolling. If anything, most intelligent white people know they have to pull out the kitchen sink to get into any kind of prestigious school because the odds, are in fact, stacked against them whether you believe it or not. This can be very similar for certain jobs.

The problem right now is that the unsuccessful minorities, because Asians don't count remember, are getting benefits and many feel they are undeserving. Welfare is also a thing being taken advantage of in the US, and I've seen examples from all parties. This entitlement is an American thing, not just white

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All these poor people have to hold onto is their whiteness...and because that's all they have, they think they are entitled to everything.

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You're so fricking racist it's unreal. Pardon my white supremacy, but you think all WHITE poor people feel like this? What would make them feel like this? What would make you feel like they feel like this?

You realize that most of the poor population isn't white right? Only 10% of white families are poor. They make up around 2/5's of the poor population in the US.
Most of the white people that would be complaining would be the ones that are not poor. There are other poor people that love the government, including white people.

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I'm a conservative white male and I'd be damned if I raised my sons to think they are owed things like these lazy hacks. They are entitled. The world is passing hem by and it will never stop for them. Human history is pretty firm on that.

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You are really doing yourself a disservice with such intellectually lazy stereotyping. Yes, there are people that meet the criteria. The article, which you evidently did not read, is much more nuanced. White middle class workers who busted their arse for decades are now feeling a squeeze that is not their own doing, like you insist. Is someone who has worked in manufacturing for 40 years, makes 60k, and never went to college (because back then, these jobs didn't require it let alone a Masters or something) supposed to go back to school at age 60 something? We're in a transitioning society and the economy is becoming highly specialized and the market for respectable, well-paying 'blue collar jobs' isn't what it used to be. People who have worked earnestly for their entire lives are struggling, despite what you say. It's a much more complicated scenario than you put forth.

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You are patiently standing in the middle of a long line stretching toward the horizon, where the American Dream awaits. But as you wait, you see people cutting in line ahead of you. Many of these line-cutters are black—beneficiaries of affirmative action or welfare. Some are career-driven women pushing into jobs they never had before. Then you see immigrants, Mexicans, Somalis, the Syrian refugees yet to come. As you wait in this unmoving line, you're being asked to feel sorry for them all. You have a good heart. But who is deciding who you should feel compassion for? Then you see President Barack Hussein Obama waving the line-cutters forward. He's on their side. In fact, isn't he a line-cutter too? How did this fatherless black guy pay for Harvard? As you wait your turn, Obama is using the money in your pocket to help the line-cutters. He and his liberal backers have removed the shame from taking. The government has become an instrument for redistributing your money to the undeserving. It's not your government anymore; it's theirs.

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That's an interesting way to put it.

He spent 5 years formulating his own narrative about what constitutes people on the right in Louisiana, but failed at coming up with the correct answer.

Louisiana votes conservative because Louisianians hold true to the American ideals we were founded upon, in spite of everything else. What's missing in this nonsense is the fact that this country has drifted sharply from those ideals, and so that's why Louisiana doesn't work well. It doesn't benefit from most of its contributions in natural gas and oil, and perhaps that's in part due to our own stupidity in allowing it to be taken advantage of by politicians and corporations, as well as the US government, it's also largely the fault of corruption at all levels of government, the government that Louisianians believe less is best.

And truth be known, the more you hurl racial accusations at the people here, the more entrenched they become at every insult. WHY? Well, surely an educated people should be able to figure this out. I like to refer to it as human freaking nature. It's the same reason why you don't win arguments or sway anyone to your side by insulting them. You make them stronger and more dogmatic in their opposition to you. So keep it the frick up. You've been doing it for a long time, and at some point you'd think such educated people would come to the obvious conclusion that it doesn't work.

Shitty troll is shitty.

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How many of these folks work for cash and don't report most or all of it? Bet many of the swamp folks, small fishermen, etc. do.

Wonder how many folks around the country do that and take gubment benefits on top of it?

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I will make direct and clear judgements about people based on "I wonder", "I bet", and "What if".


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