You guys can't keep doing this. Working class white man here. [View all]

[Tobin S.]

Trump voters were mostly middle class to wealthy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/05/its-time-to-bust-the-myth-most-trump-voters-were-not-working-class/?utm_term=.978cbe765580

"This kind of stereotyping and scapegoating is a dismaying consequence of the narrative that working-class Americans swept Trump into the White House. It’s time to let go of that narrative.

What deserves to die isn’t America’s working-class communities. It’s the myth that they’re the reason Trump was elected."



So I check in here and what do I see but comments like this, and stuff like this has been here since I came to DU.

"White college educated came out for the democratic party yesterday

and the white working class male is stubbornly republican.

I really believe that the white working class male is a seething mass of resentment that they are no longer handed the world and have to start working as hard as the rest of humanity."

and

"And they watch FOX and listen to right-wing radio"

In this thread ----> https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029816070#post39



White working class men have never been handed the world and they work very hard for their meager lifestyles. They started calling us working class because that's what we actually do for a living. This slandering of low income white people by people on both sides of the aisle is why many working class white people simply do not participate at all in the political process. They don't feel like either party is truly looking out for them. Whether you think that perception is the reality or not might be up for debate, but that perception is there and it's there for a reason. It's not all about Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. They hear you guys when you talk about them like that. Don't think so? What do you think is happening at this very moment?

I have voted in every election since 2000 and it has been a straight Democratic ticket every time. I am not an outlier or an anomaly. I have been either poor or working class all my adult life.

You guys need to stop doing this kind of thing. Do you know how bad this hurts people like me?

I work anywhere from 53 to 64 hours a week and I make less than 50k a year. That is the reality of most working class white men. Where I'm from a typical job for a young working class white guy starts at $10 an hour in a machine shop or a plastic extrusion company. It is dirty, hard, stinking, tiresome work. We don't need this kind of thing from you guys. It is incredibly disrespectful.