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brush

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18. The OP is not that far off. The repug party is 95% white so it follows that that includes . . .

Reply to Stryguy (Reply #8)

Tue Nov 8, 2016, 08:22 AM

Nov 2016

a majority of white men. Most of those men are not the corporate honchos who have exported hundreds of thousands of good jobs, they are the guys whose jobs have been exported.

They're angry and should be angry that the jobs their fathers and grandfathers had are gone and most likely not coming back, they're just angry at the wrong people — African-Americans, Latino-Americans, Muslims, gays, women — their own basket of deplorables.

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White Males Don't Get It /Their Future Is W/Democratic Party & Unions. [View all] TheMastersNemesis Nov 2016 OP

I'm a white male. I get it. I have an executive job, but I get it. NNadir Nov 2016 #1

Shit Glamrock Nov 2016 #5

Well, we obviously travel in very different circles. I have no idea of what you're talking about. NNadir Nov 2016 #6

See, that's the rub. Glamrock Nov 2016 #10

The fact that both of you guys are on this progressive site distinguishes you from . . . brush Nov 2016 #15

I'm an old white male and I get it...there is a few of us around. Pauldg47 Nov 2016 #7

My husband is an old white man. murielm99 Nov 2016 #9

It's not about policy for them. Glamrock Nov 2016 #3

White males have had the biggest fucking over in the last 40 years Warpy Nov 2016 #4

Good post. Your analysis is spot on. brush Nov 2016 #17

I think generalizing white males is bullshit. Stryguy Nov 2016 #8

The OP is not that far off. The repug party is 95% white so it follows that that includes . . . brush Nov 2016 #18

Those factory union (or non-union) jobs lapfog_1 Nov 2016 #11

Generalize much? armed_and_liberal Nov 2016 #12

Let me ask you a question. What percentage of white guys think like you? brush Nov 2016 #20

This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles Nov 2016 #14

My family are all whit working class union Dems. Odin2005 Nov 2016 #19