Republican Presidential candidates have received majorities of the white vote in every election from 1968 on. They did not always receive a majority of the white women’s vote, but if you take whites as a bloc, and only whites had voted, the last Democratic President would have been Lyndon Johnson.
This year will be no different. Older white men feel they are getting left out of the public dialogue. Maybe they are. Is bathroom accessibility for transgender students really an important national issue?
According to a study by two Princeton economists last year, since the year 2000 middle-aged white Americans, mostly with low education, have been dying at increasing rates. According to the study, this is true of no other ethnic or age group.
Main factors seem to be opioids, alcohol, and suicide.
Remember Trump’s boast: “I love the poorly educated.” The saddest thing is that while many white working class Americans will vote for him, their health care won’t be better, their children will be in the armed forces, industry isn’t coming back, and the rich will continue to run the political system.
Somebody needs to explain that, but in an election year filled with bombast and Fox News bullshit, it is hard to get across.
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