2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A word about all these threads implying white voters are racists [View all]Squinch
(56,467 posts)overtly racist and sexist or they have unexamined racism and sexism that they don't admit to themselves. But they are, nevertheless, racist and sexist. A vote for Trump is proof of that.
The rust belt people who you characterize as so DESPERATE are no more DESPERATE than poor people in any other area of the country. The same factors are at work everywhere: jobs lost to mechanization, unaffordable health care, education debt, inability to save for the future. And yet the people facing those same factors in other places didn't vote for a bigot and a sexist who was guaranteed to make their lives, and everyone else's lives, a living hell.
The same forces are at work in all the urban areas that DIDN'T vote for Trump, so that desperation and joblessness is not the explanation for why people voted for Trump. People in other areas saw through Trump and voted for the person who would help them.
So what is different about the people in the rust belt who voted for Trump? It is that they are racist and sexist, and were blinded by their racism and sexism, so much so that they handed the keys over to the person who very obviously will make their bad situation a hundred times worse.
They voted for Trump because they are racist and sexist.
And PS, I am white. It doesn't change the fact that all those white people who voted for Trump are racists and sexists. A vote for Trump is proof of racism and sexism.
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