[lbo-talk] Burying the White Working Class | Jacobin

[Jeffrey Masko]

Truthfully, it seems quaint that that those who thought Trump was a joke
and now figuring out that "legitimate whites" ie those who fool themselves
into thinking they are the "middle class" post memes to show how "hickish"
the rest of the "illegitimate white are, those white trash folks, are now
recognizing it in the "liberal" wing of the Dems. The Dems have never
supported the working class, other than as a concession and they certainly
aren't now. What is happening now is more of a class realignment, the dems
are the out and out business party, the Repubs (depending on the deal the
Donald cuts) becomes a rightwing populist party (either with ties to
establishment republicans or not).

If now it not the time to work as hard as ever to build a third party, then
serious consequences could develop culturally as political identity
movements continue to polarize. Years and years of work on the WWCPC (white
working class and poverty class)  by not only big names, Barbara
Ehrenreich, David Shipler, and countless others, the study of white
masculinity by John Hartigan or the sociologist Sarah Denton work on the
Representations of rural wokers makes it clear the Bernie followers are cut
from the same cloth. Middle class academic doesn't care about working class
people, many times even when that's where they grew up. When those aorund
us who think that Trump can't win, then they are deluding themselves; and
when Connor Kilpatrick does not include our current batch of "radicals"
that continue to practice racism against poor white, then he and they are
deluding themselves.

This articles of Jacobin are so serving at times I wonder how valuable they
really are. Thanks Conor for talking for us poor white people, I'm sure you
know quite a lot about it.

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 7:48 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> Yes, a great article.
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> Spot on:
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> https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/white-workers-bernie-sanders-clinton-primary-racism/
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J.A. Masko
College of Communications
Penn State University
State College, Pa 16801

  "The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without
becoming disillusioned."

           Antonio Gramsci.