Workers in this town may become victims of Trump's trade war,but they're behind him 'no matter what'

[matt819]

72. Because if they don't

Then non-white people will be getting stuff that is the birthright of white Americans.

And they'll see no disconnect when they have to start collecting welfare, just like some non-white people, and they'll bitch about work rules to collect such benefits, and see no contradictions.

Call it, what? Stupidity? Bigotry? Racism? Cult?

There is no reaching these people. The only people that Dems need to reach are the 37,000 voters in just a handful of counties in PA, WI, and wherever else that swung the electoral votes. Sure, Dems should have a 5-state policy, but the reality is that those people are lost - in so many ways.

Which is why I keep coming back to the reality that we are no longer one country.

I was in the grocery store the other day and in the used book bin (used to raise money for non-profits) was a book by the late AFrican-American Republican senator from MA, Edward Brooke. The title? Bridging the Divide.

How quaint. How much divide bridging is possible today? Zero. Zilch. Nada. None. That's not the hallmark of a stable society.