... who, thankfully for them, don't have to put up with our "culture" of politics, infotainment, and Christian melodramatics.

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Amazon jungle tribesmen.are dipshits???

Says right at the end there: "Fact"

real world is some muthafucking racist dog whistle shit.

I am about goddamn sick of this "chase-a-cracker, maybe if we beg hard enough and toss us PoC, queers and uppity women under the bus their white power ass will vote for us" SHIT

The Orange One insults one group after another, his supporters turn a blind eye- challenging them on it is bad... asking how the fuck it wasn't a deal breaker for them at the ballot box is bad.... but WE"RE THE ONES WITH THE PROBLEM.

Rude pundit is funny, but funny does not equate to correct.

And if 90% of white American are working class, does that mean that one automatically assumes that they cannot be reached?

And I am not a sanctimonious GOP voter, I am a member of the working class who knows many other members of the white working class. True, I am a unionized white working class voter, which does make some difference. Union workers and black voters were the backbone of the Democratic Party for many years. And yes, racism is a huge problem in the US, but it does not explain everything. Economic insecurity is a big problem also, and when people are insecure they become less tolerant.

Recommended anyway because Rude Pundit is funny.
Thanks sheshe for your excellent choice of material.

Many are woman, and we got tossed under the bus a long long time ago. Interesting statement.

And far too many, especially women, are in your situation also.

But when I said:

They have recently suffered significant race riots and other signs of racial animus as the level of non-white immigrants have risen.

The Sweden Democrats (a far right anti-immigration party) posted major gains in 2014 elections.

Economic insecurity often leads to scapegoating by the insecure. And fascists are often willing to point out who is to blame.

Their whole demographic is mono cultural and mostly mono genetic until recently and now they are having some "issues", lol.

so forget the walk-back.

We haven't had them in the Dem Party to any great extent since Nixon, when he used racist code to get their support.

The vast majority of these dudes vote GOP. They keep voting against their self-interest time after time after time. The time to have protested against the economic ruination of this country was during Ronald Reagan's administration. That is when neolib economics really started snowballing. Jobs were being sent overseas by the millions, pensions were gutted, unions were undermined, ruinous trade agreements began to be implemented. And where the hell were these white dudes? Voting for Reagan, bitching about how many "advantages" women and minorities were getting because of affirmative action, these guys thinking they deserved and still deserve the best jobs because they have white skin and dicks.

I refuse to feel one bit sorry for these assholes. With the women, it is almost entirely the bogus "social issues" which the right politicians always use as a con in order to get these women's votes in order to pick their pockets.

Years ago I used to feel sorry for these guys losing their way of life, but there comes a time when to cut them loose. You couldn't knock sense into these idiots with a two-by-four. I am not sure another Great Depression would change them. They are hopeless.

I am sick of this "working class" phrase. That is Berniespeak, and he is nothing but a moth-eaten Marxist.

I am not a fan of the "Rude Pundit," since his foulmouthed writing grates on the nerves, but he is right in this case.

because far too many people seem to believe that the US is a classless society. If that sounds Marxist to you I understand, but any analysis of this society that does not recognize economic class is, in my opinion, deficient.

Rich people have always used race, and language, and religion, and sex to divide working people. A divided working class is easier to exploit because one subset can always be played against another.

If you said that we cannot reach racist white people I would still disagree because to write off a significant fraction of the population seems to be counterproductive.

It is wrongheaded, and yes, he IS a Marxist, which discredits him right off the bat.

The term "middle class" is typically used in the US instead of the term "working class," which is more European. This includes both white- and blue-collar workers.

Issues affecting women and minorities ARE separate because they ARE impacted much differently than white males, and just because they don't put white dudes in the center of concern doesn't make those issues less important.

People making 400,000 a year define themselves as middle class, as do people making 20,000 a year. It reflects more of a mindset or an aspiration rather than a term that defines economic reality. Who defines themselves as "low class"?

People making 50,000 or less a year, over half of the population, are much more vulnerable, much less likely to have a financial cushion. And the rich exploit that vulnerability, sometimes by pointing out union members make more than the average. Or that government workers have pensions.

Never examined by the corporate media is that the principal Walton heirs are worth more than the bottom 40% of US workers combined. Or that corporations are moving overseas because hedge fund operators are constantly seeking even higher returns. Carrier is a profitable company. it is moving production to Mexico to make even more money.

Marxist!

FFS, enough with the moth-eaten red-baiting.

Jesus H. Christ.

And they're going off about alt right nonsense the whole night. They were definitely tricked by the GOP into voting against their best interests. The election of Donald Trump and the destruction of Obama makes me wonder if we really do live in the Matrix and that there's hope on the other side.

You got good company.

Is homophoboc about that?!

They are anti-trade and anti immigration.. They are "PROTECTIONIST" and nationalist. They tout FDR even though it was only the white who did better under FDR. FDR was a huge segregationist

"We haven't had them in the Dem Party to any great extent since Nixon, when he used racist code to get their support."

No. Those were affluent, middle-to-upper-middle class suburban white voters who voted for Nixon. You know, those more "educated" and "tolerant" voters. In 1968, Hubert Humphrey won a significant majority of working class white voters outside the Deep South (where George Wallace, of course, got a lot of white support). Research the election results if you don't want to take my word for it. In 1972, Nixon obviously won in a massive landslide, and yes, he won a lot of working class white voters - but remember that Jimmy Carter won back a lot of those Southern working class whites who had defected to Wallace. And in both 1972 and especially 1976, the Republican presidential nominee did significantly better among wealthier voters (most of whom were/are white, of course). As is tradition.

And no, most working class white dudes did not vote for Reagan. Well, OK, a lot of them did in 1984 - in a 49-state, 59%-41% landslide. And once again, the wealthier whites did a lot better. The "Reagan Democrats" (a painfully overused and pretty much irrelevant term - most of those people are dead, and they either became loyal Republican voters or returned to the Democratic Party) tended to be more affluent suburban white voters. But again, take a look at the election results for 1984. Walter Mondale actually beat Reagan not just in his home state of Minnesota, but in many working-class white locales and counties in much of the Rust Belt - again, in an election in which much of the rest of the country, and wealthier voters in particular, voted for Reagan. You know, those same working-class white areas that Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump this year by scandalously large margins.. Same is even more true for 1988 (take a look at the electoral map that year in Iowa, for example - a state which Trump won this year by several points.

And remember....most of these places sent Democrats to Congress up until the "Republican Revolution" of the 1990s (and many of them even after that - especially outside the South). Which coincidentally, happened in the wake of NAFTA and the rise of "Third Way" Democratic politics with Bill Clinton and co. deciding that the future of the Democratic Party lied in pandering to those same affluent, suburban middle class white voters on everything from crime and taxes to "fiscal conservatism" and corporate deregulation. And all of this, of course, was done at the expense of working class voters of ALL demographic backgrounds - not just white men. And yet, a significant number of working class white men outside the South continued to vote for Democrats at most levels of government - and yes, many at the presidential level as well. And even as the Democratic Party was starting to decrease in strength among this group, a lot of working class whites outside the South (including white men) still voted for Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, and yes, Barack Obama. Hell, a lot of them voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 presidential primaries. And yet, as we are all now painfully aware, there's substantial overlap between these voters (well, the ones who are still alive) and Trump voters - especially in the states which proved to be decisive for Trump's Electoral College win. Which, as far as I know, is still how a candidate wins the Presidency of the United States.

All of this is a long way of saying: You're wrong.

PS: Red-baiting doesn't really do you any favors in a political argument. Especially since there aren't many Reds left to bait, even among Bernie voters (of whom I wasn't one, for the record).

Unite and fire up the troops for midterm turnout. And prep for 2020. Stay on message and don't get caught up in bait and rhetoric.

I'm a liberal, white, working class, "dumbass, mutherfucking, primitive, dipshit" teacher.

It's ugly and beyond fucking tired at this point.

to see on a Democratic message board.

We're supposed to hold ourselves to a higher standard. Dems aren't perfect, but to wallow in the mud and to make outcasts of the entire "white middle class" is detrimental.

telling people they are stupid assholes if they don't agree with you, ya that's how we get them over to our side.
and it continues.....

Just does us a big disservice. The hate expressed on DU gets over the top.

We White people have to swallow hard and shrug off a lot to cast a vote for Democrats. I'm tired ot it, too.

There's no need for you or others who identify as white middle class to be constantly subjected to the vilification. It should really be directed at those who supported Drumpf for his bigotry and misogyny, regardless of their socio-economic status.

we freaking won, if not for the weird electoral college. We have the majority. She has over 2 million more votes than Trump now. And still we have this same maddening story about how we must blow up the Party.

I just saw a post related to that where the person admitted that they didn't vote for our candidate. Why in hell should that person have a voice now? I don't see it. Those are the people who gave away everything for their own personal gotcha moment. This country will go back in time because of them. Maybe I'm just old, contrary and angry... but I am what I am, and I'm mad as hell.

We are losing ground all across America. We need to change our tone and message. The attitude of the article posted in the OP is a big symptom of our problem.

More people voted for us. Its not anything we did not do. It's Gerrymandering

More posts like yours. Less telling working people to fuck off, please.

Even though we will be taken down with them - I have no fucking sympathy for these trump fucks. They can go to hell.

They are lost. Consumed by anger and entitlement. They will never vote Democratic, or for their best interests, which we know to be synonymous.

this is also awful.

for a very long time.

It's hateful. It's lashing out with a broad brush, and it's doing more harm than good.

We had a whole fucking year of a living breathing shit stain exploit every imaginable fear of voters.

people stood in a booth and voted for it, they voted for a man who scapegoated and demonized ordinary people trying to live their fucking lives in peace. And the problem is with me - the liberal , who points out that this man lies , is disgraceful and will degrade the Presidency. If you vote for a racist fuck, what conclusion am I to draw?

Political correctness is only a sin for some. For those precious ones whose psyche every journalist wanted to uncover this year "Who are Trump voters?" .. "Let's understand the Trump voter" .. "The Hidden Voter - Trump Voters" - all these fucking ingratiating articles and I'm thinking -yes who are these fucking people for whom xenophobia and racism aren't deal breakers at the ballot box?

I point this out and I am the problem. Sexist shit and racist shit can be heard and sold at Trump rallies; The Deplorable behavior is called deplorable - oh the horror , don't call them deplorable! what the fuck else am I supposed to call this shit then?

Think back to any other politician or ordinary citizen getting away with this - Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a distant memory when a white nationalist can have the ear of the President and the Press normalises it..

So fuck all the "Identity politics of PoC of Gays, of Women is why we lost" narratives.

lost friends over this election? Just because we're white working class? That is the absolute largest broad brush I've ever seen used here. I've voted Democratic in every election since 1968, never got out of the "working class" until I retired, and I was born white, and still am white.
So, does this mean my vote is no longer needed or welcomed in the Democratic Party? Just say so, and I'll just stay home from now on - I can't take another heart attack like the one I had two fucking days after this last election!

This nastiness helps NOTHING!

Second, I assume you did not vote for tRump, or third party or left your ballot blank. So this is not about you.

This is about tRump supporters that vote against their best interests every dayum election.

The absolute hate is saddening

Apparently the Rude Pundit has very little desire to attract more voters to the Democratic side. Which seems like a poor choice given what that gives us. Democrats have enough of a built in disadvantage with the electoral college and gerrymandering. There's no need to tell people that they are too stupid to vote for us.

In most cases (aside from the really religious people) rural voters don't give a flying fart who you marry, what you do with your body, whether or not you eat meat, whether or not you want a gun, don't care what you look like, what religion you follow, the color of your skin and whatever else. They are just reacting like a pissed off vegan who has been told that they need to just eat meat and feed it to their families and be happy about it because there are starving people in other countries and meat is a good source of protein and since you need protein it must be what's best for you, so we can make rules that say you HAVE to eat meat. We're just doing it for your own good, afterall.

There is a very DEEP resentment not towards "the Man" but towards those on the left who DO act superior and DO try to force their opinions onto others. Hell, I experienced it here simply by having the audacity to say I prefer to vote in person and NOT by mail in ballot. That group of voters actually agree most with Democrats but they are fed up with the sanctimonious BS. That's what it really boils down to.

White 60 year old working class woman here and I agree 100%.

diverse mix of groups. It is no longer the party of the lower class working people and minorities but now higher income people whose priorities are environment and sexual orientation. The tent is getting very wide and I have seen on this and other Democratic message boards that the groups really do not support each other. I noticed that the newbies really do not care for the low income and disadvantaged people. (Not all)

We have a very difficult blend in our party which at times helps some our party but also offends some on the borderline. Thats why I still hear "The Democratic Party left me".

What we are doing is the right thing to do but we must get our widely diverse party working more for each other.

I lost my post count when I came back in after the crash.

"I lost my post count when I came back in after the crash."

Trying to get back in here, I was having problems with my email address and tried everything and I got that fixed so I then still had problems getting a new password because I decided to get back on with a star membership. I got back on with a Star membership but my post count zeroed out for Jim Beard which did not change.

Some need to look in a mirror

I'm not sure why some object so strongly to the notion that 20-25% of eligible voters can't be reached by the Democratic Party without the Democratic Party abandoning its base. That seems like a pretty obvious point. A similar point, minus the colorful language, was made in this piece: "On Rural America: Understanding Isn't The Problem."

Trump didn't put forth any substantive policy positions, and I don't think many of his supporters were sitting around having nuanced discussions about trade or any other issue. If trade was such an important issue, Rob Portman wouldn't have kicked Ted Strickland's ass in Ohio. And the median income of Trump supporters is substantially higher than the median income of Clinton supporters.

No Democratic candidate for president has won the white vote since LBJ, and that's not because Republicans are the party of sound economic policy.

Of course Democrats need to do a better job of messaging, of making it clear that progressive politics is key to improving economic conditions.

Of course Democrats need to do a better job of GOTV, fighting voter suppression and attempting to reach those who don't vote.

But the fact is racism, sexism, misogyny, heterosexism, xenophobia and Christian supremacy take precedence for tens of millions of voters. It's not that 100% of them are unreachable, but the time and effort necessary to undo the brainwashing is time and effort that can be spent in much more productive, efficient ways.

It'd be one thing if most people were working from a set of agreed-upon facts (which is even less the case in this age of 24/7 infotainment with media personalities who say it's not their job to fact check). There'd still be disagreement over causes for and appropriate responses to those facts. But millions of people flat out deny facts while subscribing to patently false beliefs. Presenting them with facts has a tendency to backfire, as studies have made clear. The false beliefs become more ingrained. That's true across the political spectrum, but it's a matter of scale. While most everyone will cling to at least some false beliefs, there are those who simply live in an alternate reality. If you want to dedicate time to pulling people out of that alternate reality, more power to you.

I mean, seriously.

They are only in "pain" because they are fearful of losing privilege.

They are only "angry" because they think they are losing out due to "reverse racism" (whatever THAT unicorn happens to be).

So, they've seen their incomes go down.

So, they won't do as well as their parents.

So what?

They have not been beaten up for being who they are. (LGBT, an uppity person of color)
Their ancestors were not brought here as slaves, nor suffered generations of discrimination.

They scream about identity politics, but their whole position is nothing BUT identity politics.

They HAD their chance to move this country into a better place for ALL Americans, but chose to double-down on some sort of made up threat that simply doesn't exist outside of their own minds.

Now, they are trying to bring the rest of the country down to their level.

I stand with the Rude Pundit: I have zero fucks to give for them.

Thank you!

We saw all those white middle class people at the tRump events. They are sooooooooo concerned about 'their welfare'. We saw them and the con make fun of people with disabilities. The reporter and the mom with a young child. This is who they are, violent, uncaring racist, sexist bigots that lost their souls a very long time ago.

He advocated violence at every event, the crowds roared their approval. Now I have people telling me I am being harsh and should reach out to them. Fuck that.

One woman posted a pic with her tshirt message. Hey Donnie grab this with an arrow to her P***y. What type of self respecting woman does this!!!

I'm quote you.

And WE are the ones being hateful and divisive.

And now WE are supposed to feel sympathy for all the widdle hurt feewings they've had for eight years of Obama's TYRRANY!!

Ummm,, sorry, no.

Please take your little pocket Constitution, roll it into a tight spindle, and give your prostate a massage with it.

I so love your last line!!!!!

I am always in hopes of introducing more men into the joys of bottoming.

If all straight men gave it a try, I think it would truly change the world.

Even if it wasn't every guy's cup of tea, it would at least help them understand a little bit about the physical vulnerability of their female partners. Also, I think it would reduce homophobia.

...don't expect them to acknowledge yours. Especially when there are many white working class people who have acknowledged the problems in our society.

Oh yes, they are such an oppressed group, now and for generations past.

Instead of being born on third, they have to take their chances with the pitcher now, like the rest of us....

You say this:

THEY are the ones dragging us all down.

Not women, not LGBT, not PoC.

Sure, some of it is ideological differences. A lot of it was lack of messaging to address their concerns. Why would they vote for a party that doesn't address them or their needs? Why do you vote for Dems...is it because you believe you'll benefit from them being in power? That your issues will be advanced by Dems? The same is true of the people you're demonizing...give them a reason to vote for Dems and they will.

Stop brushing off peoples concerns as being less important than your own. This is not the same thing as "ignoring bigotry, racism, sexism, and homophobia" as it's currently being painted as. It's building our party's message to reach a broader audience.

address their concerns. They preferred a demagogue who promised them the impossible and lied every time he opened his mouth. He lied and told them what they want to believe. A minute or two of research would have shown them that his promises are either impossible or would not improve their situations But they chose not to invest that minute or two of research and put all our futures into the hands of the snake oil salesman.

I am not brushing off people's concerns as being less important than my own. I am denying the idea that the concerns of the intellectually lazy voters of the rust belt are any different or more important than my own. I am brushing off the idea that they deserve empathy for their idiotic choices that put us all in jeopardy.

I learn from! But thank you for the compliment.

vanishing in the cities are any different from the jobs that are vanishing in the country? Do you think that the problems those people have are any different from the problems that every other area and group are facing?

They are not.

There is nothing special about these people that we need to pander to them. The only difference between them and every other struggling group is that they didn't bother to learn which candidate would work to make their lives better and which one would ruin them along with the rest of us.

I am a member of the white working class. It is still true that the only things that would induce a voter to vote for Corrupt Donald are stupidity, laziness and a privilege that makes them believe that their struggle is somehow worse than the struggles of the rest of us.

I will not pander to those imbeciles.

...but poor, rural, white people are the current subject of many people's ire around here. I did stereotype a bit in my response, but that was going to happen regardless of how I broke it down. The point is, struggle is struggle...regardless of race/gender/whatever other thing you want to break it down by.

enough not to vote to put a psychopath in the White House.

Those who DID vote to put a psychopath in the White House did not do it because of the struggles that everyone is naming. Because as we agree, we are ALL subject to those struggles. So what is different about them? It is this: they think they are entitled to not have to deal with those struggles. They think they are entitled to expect that some demagogue will come along and make their lives comfortable without requiring the effort from them even to understand what is causing their problems.

That is the ignorance and hubris of privilege, plain and simple.

I am a member of the white working class. I know that ignorance and hubris when I see it.

they don't want a leader, they want a ruler. Makes everything simpler that way, no thinking involved.

Bunch of assholes.

One of the least progressive posts I have ever read on this board.

And I will share mine that I found that post to be startlingly unprogressive and hurtful.

demagoguery that is putting a psychopath in the white house. I have no need to show respect for the decision by those people to give him the presidency.

Your mileage, apparently, varies.

Ignorance and bigotry should not be pandered to.

... error in flip counties.

Fuck those counties if their doing better now than when Obama got into office...

There's no help for people like that

and yes, that includes the white working class...Sick of all the race & class hatred here.

Maybe someone will introduce a tax fairness bill to cap the extra money spent in red states, say no more than maybe 10% more in any state than the amount they contribute. Many of the folks who voted for Trump depend on the money coming in from the blue urban areas. Tax Fairness Now. Let's just give them improved interstates without many exit ramps.

though I doubt it will satisfy the haters.

He is also a victim of his kind. I wouldn't know or care if he makes income from his punditry but perhaps a little more focus on that 240 year old rule penciled in the constitution by a just few people in some back room to appease some slave owning fat cat colonials back in the day. This little stinking rule has thwarted millions of people even after slavery was abolished after a very bloody civil war.

No, he is just like the other lemmings following others who being paid to spread descension and division while keeping things as they are. Truly serving a conservative agenda

Sh needs to hear it.

Also if one fits part of that bill does this indicate one is also included?

A friend of mine, who emigrated from Hong Cong many years ago and also an independent voted for Trump because she was tired of Clinton and Bush dynasties. China has had dynasties ruling for thousands of years and so is she also wrong for her convictions?

We are all suckers for identity politics. Not using the true test and holding our elected officials accountable for the responsibilities of that position what our real problem is. Mostly if we looked more closely, we would know that.

Let's get something out of the way: I'm a member of the white working class (WWC), and a woman. So what? That should take care of all the responses of "I'm white working class and I'm not like that!"

It's not about me, or you. The RP was talking about a wide swath of the WWC. I know them, you know them, if you live or have ever lived in the Rust Belt, the deep South, or in certain rural areas. It's God, Guns, and their absolute right to be dirt stupid and still have high paying jobs. It's hatred--ignorant, blind hatred--of anything and anyone who challenges "all that is dear" to them. It's hanging on, desperately, to the past that no one will ever see again, and many of us don't want to.

You can't reach these people. Their families and loved ones can't reach them. They are impervious to rational argument. They are anti-education, anti-science, anti-anyone who is not exactly like them, and who does not think like them.

Yes, we ought to help them with our liberal policies, even though they don't appreciate it. Not because we feel sorry for them, but because those policies benefit all of us, not just them. And they won't like that. They want everything for themselves and cannot understand that a strong society means safety nets for all who need them.

Yes, yes, I UNDERSTAND that not all members of the WWC are as described above. I'm not, and I don't believe you are either. But it's not about us.

And yes, Fuck them.

The data seems to belie your claim.

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/15/502032052/lots-of-people-voted-for-obama-and-trump-heres-where-in-3-charts

I don't want to say too much because right now people are rubbed raw by the defeat. But we could have won this election. Certainly we won the prior two. If we don't go nuts we'll win the next election.

in 08 and 2012, are now ignorant, stupid, racist, homophobic, uneducated assholes in 2016?
anyone?.......

Read Gary Younge at the Guardian. He spent a long time in Muncie and talked about these very things. It is far from as simple as "They're racist" or "They are economically shattered." Both those things (and others) may be true, but fundamentally it is that they voted for change with Obama and didn't get it (obviously they expected way too much given the Republican Congress) and the Democrats refusal to support anything other than incremental change as well.

and succeed in softening any of their policies, then people will say, "See, everyone was so worried about Trump, but he isn't so bad."

We win if he is bad. If he fails miserably or disappoints those who supported him. We need to play their game, because clearly it worked.

I know, the GOP! You want to become what you hate?

...sucker them out of benefits and stick them with taxes. It's too bad these working class people don't see that.

..our politicians, and our actual pundits who get media time need to say this exact thing, but they don't. They dance around and try and play nice and not offend the powers that be, or upset anyone with uncivil talk.

They don't point out again and again and again and fucking again all the stuff that liberalism and the Democratic party have done for them.

Until they are ready, willing, and able to do that in a full throated, clearly stated way we will continue to lose this vote.

So yeah the Rude Pundit is right, but the reason the white working class don't realize any of this is because nobody with any power in our party, nobody with even the smallest of megaphones says this stuff day in, day out, and all through the goddamned fucking night.

who are ALSO part of the working class, as mere "collateral damage" to 'fucking the white working class'?


So many of these posts/articles saying we should just throw the working class under the bus, seem to presume that the working class is almost exclusively white--
which is in itself, a RACIST notion-- since it presumes that "minorities don't work".

from straight white folks for some time. And guess who it was that ACTUALLY played "identity politics" and ran, not walked -- RAN, to vote in a blustering fuckwit who hasn't even been sworn in yet and is already backtracking on his campaign promises because he'd make them feel damn good about being white in America again?

A man that economists noted time and again that his policies were either incoherent or dangerous? A man who thinks that he can run the country from Trump Tower and not have to slum it with his employees at the White House?

The same folks that screamed that Obama was a secret Muslim, that Michelle was a man, that he was a socialist and conjured up every single bit of stupid assed fantasy bullshit they could pull out of their behinds RAN to vote for a man who has an actual list of crimes a half a mile long. Who has ACTUALLY been sued multiple times for racial and gender discrimination, who has ACTUALLY been accused of sexual assault. Who has been married 50 leven times and has OPENLY cheated on at least one of these ridiculous women and whose current wife was by any account an illegal immigrant, the thing they've been screaming that Obama is for over eight years?

But no, none of that shit was about racism! None of it! That was just legitimate policy concerns these folks had with a decent, brilliant, hard working man that lead them to question every single fucking step he took and then vote for a man who's not qualified to clean his predecessors' shoes.

I have missed you Number23.

Michelle is an ape in heels. Not raciest all. This family, best ever. I love them.

I want them to stay as much as I want them to go. America did not deserve their beauty and grace. America is a stupid lot. They never appreciated what they had and now threw it away to a fascist pig. He will use our treasury as his personal piggy bank.

I hope we can survive the next four years.

It is late and I have to go.

about people not respecting you! HMMMMMM!!!!

Whine about a group of people and then whine when someone in that group is angry at you. Reads like a solid Republican value to me!

Reading through the replies makes me wonder if anyone actually read the article, or even wonders, much less reads, about racial power dynamics.

Now you just called her a whiner and Republican-a response I find very odd.

You're not the only one to have noticed it, I can assure you!