One giveaway as to Rudy Teixeira’s analysis of “why white working men “ are what they are is, I hate to break the news to him, is absolutely race. As a member of that class for over 50 years, I have never had a political discussion while ay work, or even while socialising, that these men especially, havent gone directly to race whether it started out with economics, education or cultural subjects.
I grew up in the rural southwest. The vast majority of guys I knew are MAGAs and have always been bigoted. For decades of my life, I apologized inwardly--they are decent people who would give you the shirt off your back etc. But eventually I just couldn’t take what this was doing to *me* and cast most of them out of my life. Whether it’s contempt, disdain, or something else, the truth is that I don’t think much of them.
One giveaway as to Rudy Teixeira’s analysis of “why white working men “ are what they are is, I hate to break the news to him, is absolutely race. As a member of that class for over 50 years, I have never had a political discussion while ay work, or even while socialising, that these men especially, havent gone directly to race whether it started out with economics, education or cultural subjects.
I grew up in the rural southwest. The vast majority of guys I knew are MAGAs and have always been bigoted. For decades of my life, I apologized inwardly--they are decent people who would give you the shirt off your back etc. But eventually I just couldn’t take what this was doing to *me* and cast most of them out of my life. Whether it’s contempt, disdain, or something else, the truth is that I don’t think much of them.