Memo To Working Class White Males: The Future Is Here, Whether You Accept It Or Not!

It is clear that the vast majority of supporters of Donald Trump are working class white males, along with many elderly white males.

They are in full revolt against the future of America, whether they accept it or not!

That future is as follows:

A growing Hispanic-Latino and Asian American population, with the white population of the nation declining by the 2040s to be less than a majority.

A growing role of women in America, way beyond the old concept that a woman should only be a mother, and stick to the kitchen and the bedroom, and always “obey” the men in her life, when women are becoming the majority of educated and working people, and no longer will accept dominance by men.

The growing urgency of people gaining more education and job training, as the future of America will be very different economically, no matter whether Donald Trump becomes the 45th President, as there is no magic potion to reverse what has been occurring since the middle class reached its peak in 1973.

Racism, nativism, misogyny, antisemitism, xenophobia have no possibility of promoting harmony in the future of a multicultural nation, which is inevitable.

The future is here, and working class white males and many elderly white males cannot change the future, which if they could, would be totally detrimental to peace, security, and stability!

64 comments on “Memo To Working Class White Males: The Future Is Here, Whether You Accept It Or Not!

  1. fvecc May 7, 2016 8:37 pm

    It’s the left wing turning this into a race issue. Those supporting Trump aren’t scared of immigrants or minorities. They’re just trying to to get the government to implement policies that benefit American citizens. The current immigration and trade policies benefit large corporations at our expense. Limiting immigration and using tariffs to protect domestic businesses and workers would put more Americans back to work and shrink the welfare state. That helps all Americans, regardless of race.

  2. Mercy May 8, 2016 11:58 am

    fvecc: I recall that the last time we had a President who was a successful business man, who could “get things done”, and raised tariffs to “protect” domestic businesses and workers, was big government Republican Herbert Hoover! He not only managed to make a bad situation , the Wall Street crash of 29, worse by turning what would have been a recession into a depression with his interventionist policies, but paved the way for FDR which resulted in more interventionism that ended up prolonging the Depression to a decade!

  3. Former Republican May 8, 2016 1:53 pm

    fvecc: You are totally wrong about the left wing.

  4. Ronald May 8, 2016 2:05 pm

    Former Republican, thank you for speaking up as you have done here! I appreciate it!

  5. Mercy May 8, 2016 3:21 pm

    I think that those supporting Trump are neither scared nor angry at immigrants and minorities. Don’t get me wrong, they are angry but at the political, cultural, media & intellectual establishment, who by the way are predominantly white liberals, that seems to be constantly denigrating those people that simply disagree with what the establishment imposes on all Americans. Whether it be uncontrolled borders, mass illegal immigration, high taxes and even the use of language. For example to say the words illegal immigrant can literally get you in trouble if not fired or boycotted. No dissent is allowed lest you be called an intolerant, racist , bigoted xenophobic rat by the establishment. So these people are actually using Trump not Trump using them. They are using him as a missile directed at the heart of the establishment. They simply want someone to fight back and fight back hard. I don’t think they even care if they win or lose, as long as they see someone, in this case it happens to be Trump. who hits back hard, someone who at least fights back. Even if he ends up losing.

  6. Former Republican May 8, 2016 6:33 pm

    Mercy is also wrong.

  7. Southern Liberal May 8, 2016 6:35 pm

    Some of my Republican friends are saying they would much rather vote for Hillary before they would Trump.

  8. Mercy May 8, 2016 6:45 pm

    Former Republican: May I ask what you think of the existence of “Safe Spaces” at our universities?

  9. Former Republican May 8, 2016 6:57 pm

    The Professor’s article is what is correct.

  10. Former Republican May 8, 2016 7:12 pm

    Southern Liberal – My Republican friends said the same. Some also said they’d rather not vote at all.

  11. Mercy May 8, 2016 8:02 pm

    Former Republican”: With all due respect, why don’t you answer my question?

  12. Princess Leia May 8, 2016 9:13 pm

    With all due respect, he doesn’t have to answer your question.

  13. Rational Lefty May 8, 2016 9:16 pm

    Mercy – We’ve never heard of anything called “Safe Spaces”. Explain what you are talking about.

  14. Former Republican May 8, 2016 9:47 pm

    Mercy – I believe exactly the same as the Professor said in his posting as far as racism, sexism, etc. are concerned.

  15. Former Republican May 9, 2016 6:52 am

    Mercy – To second what Rational Lefty said, I can’t answer about something that I’ve never heard of.

  16. Princess Leia May 9, 2016 7:33 am

    Donald Trump is a dangerously insane fascist who would cause doomsday if elected president.

    #NEVERTRUMP

  17. Pragmatic Progressive May 9, 2016 8:36 am

    Trump is trying to get Bernie voters. He’s flip flopped on taxes and claims he’s going to tax the wealthy. LOL! Bernie voters reading here, don’t believe pathological liar Drumpf’s schtick!

  18. Rustbelt Democrat May 9, 2016 11:30 am

    I think it’s funny how certain people crawl out of the woodwork here when it’s election time.

  19. Mercy May 9, 2016 12:47 pm

    Former Republican and Rational Lefty: I heard about them the other day from Mayor Bloomberg’s commencement speech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i23pD38lpE
    Also Bill Maher seemed to be a problem for some children at Berkeley . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcB-zvsRslY
    Apparently some colleges create spaces for students (children I would say) that are somehow perturbed by certain visiting lecturers, ideas or words so they can go hide and feel safe from these ideas, points of views or just words.

  20. Ronald May 9, 2016 1:15 pm

    Mercy, a university or college is a place to be exposed to different ideas and concepts other than one’s own.

    It is preposterous that students do not feel “safe” because someone espouses certain ideas or beliefs.

    There should be no such “safe” places, but simply if one does not wish to attend an event, do not attend!

    Why even bring this up, as it has NOTHING to do with the entry!

  21. Mercy May 9, 2016 1:55 pm

    Ronald: I bring it up because I am trying to understand this appearance on stage of the Trump phenomenon. The other day I also read that some students were offended by what is called “chalking”. I asked myself what is that? Apparently the name “Trump” was written with chalk on the sidewalk of a college campus, and that provoked such anguish on some students that they needed to go to their “safe space”. Then in another instance Christina Hoff Sommers was at UMass together with two other people giving a talk on “On Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far, and she was discussing feminism today. And this chat was met by angry students who just went crazy yelling and screaming “hate speech,hate speech” and not letting her or anyone speak. Some students then needed to go to their safe spaces due to her presence at campus. But in the middle of all this insanity what caught my attention was that the students who were there just to listen and participate respectfully started chanting “Trump , Trump” when these protesters began yelling and screaming. Maybe they wouldn’t even vote for Trump, but yet they used him as a push-back against this attack on freedom of expression in campus. So I was asking myself , how much of this extreme political correctness or as George Carlin would say “Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be Manners”, is responsible for the rise of Trump? How much is the rise of Trump a reaction to political correctness gone amok? A reaction to people in their private life having lost their jobs due to ”incorrect” opinions?

  22. Ronald May 9, 2016 2:41 pm

    Thanks,. Mercy, for your explanation.

    NO ONE should be barred from a college campus because some people object, no matter what the view.

    However, there needs to be civility and a sense of order, so that no speaker or viewpoint is threatened in any form.

    Trump and anyone else should not be able to bar freedom of expression, but again in a civil manner.

    Trump kicking people out of rallies is wrong, and provokes mob psychology, and I DO worry that he is a Fascist in his techniques!

    But neither should extreme left ideas be able to bar anyone or be allowed to provoke violence, so free speech with civility is the rule!

  23. Former Republican May 9, 2016 4:27 pm

    Now that it’s been explained, my opinion of it is the same as what the Professor said.

  24. Ronald May 9, 2016 4:28 pm

    Actually, Mercy, I have never had a problem in more than four decades of college teaching.

    I think a lot of the fortune is due to my open attitude on issues and my ability, so far, to overcome tensions and stresses in the classroom atmosphere.

    I think one’s persona and presentation when speaking or teaching has a lot do with it, and this is a major issue with Donald Trump, who has no sense of diplomacy or tact!

  25. Mercy May 9, 2016 7:25 pm

    Donald Trump is as much a conservative as I am Miss Universe! LOL! The Republican Party hierarchy commenced the current primary season with two overriding objectives 1) make certain no constitutional conservative would win the nomination; and 2) nominate someone considered to be an ideological moderate. They have succeeded in many ways far beyond what they could have imagined.
    The last conservative standing, Ted Cruz, was recently vanquished in Indiana. The presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, while certainly not the first choice of the party insiders, is more than just a moderate, he is the most liberal nominee in the party’s history. Nonetheless, as he has been a member of the Ruling Class establishment for his entire adult life, Trump will eventually be acceptable to the party elites, as their first allegiance is to themselves and the Party.

  26. Ronald May 9, 2016 7:43 pm

    Mercy, I totally disagree that Trump is a liberal, with the racist, nativist, misogynist views he has, far from it. He is a Fascist demagogue!

    And as far as being the most “liberal” nominee the GOP has ever run, far from it. as Theodore Roosevelt was much more a progressive, and in modern times,. I would argue that Gerald Ford was very moderate, as was John McCain.

  27. Mercy May 9, 2016 9:17 pm

    Ronald, Trump is not the nominee to represent conservatism at all. Basically the fundamentals of conservatism can be defined as : (1) fiscal discipline, free enterprise within a free competitive market, constitutionally limited government, and low taxes (economics and freedom); (2) moral standards (social); (3) and peace through strength (defense). He represents none of that, quite the contrary. As far as I see Trump was lifelong Democrat, crony capitalist, avowed leftist on many issues, and a strident nationalist prone to issuing diktats and floating conspiracy theories. In truth, though Trump is not a conservative in the American context of the term, he champions a form of backward-looking orthodoxy, or conservatism in the general sense, not unlike that of the Early Modern European reactionaries. Among the latter were groups like the monarchists and feudalists who opposed the classical liberal principles of limited government, free markets and trade, rights such as the freedoms of speech and press, and individual liberty. Thus, the ascendancy of Trump within the Republican Party obfuscates the difference between the American conservative, i.e. the ideological descendant of nineteenth-century liberalism, and the common reactionary. F.A. Hayek predicted that the defenders of individualism in a world dominated by the progressive march towards a collectivist dream would find themselves alongside those who perpetually resist change. Today, the conservative who opposes bad ideas, such as state-sponsored impingement on personal liberty in service of the welfare state, and the reactionary who opposes all new ideas irrespective of merit seem to stand side by side in the face of the current administration and the candidate of the government and state party. However, the enemy of my enemy is not a friend in this case. Reactionary Trumpism is ideologically antagonistic to American conservatism and cannot coexist in the same political habitat. The reactionary stubbornly resists placing faith, as Hayek describes in The Constitution of Liberty (1960), in the intangible forces that sustain economic freedom. Thus, Trump’s attacks on free trade and in his unabashed advocacy of protectionist policies such as high tariffs on imports. Second, the reactionary finds solace in submitting to coercion so long as he finds the actions of the authoritarian acceptable. Third, that the reactionary finds no objection in surrendering power to a demagogue symptomizes a larger ailment — the lack of political principles. In such apathy toward limiting the power of government, the reactionary finds common ground with the socialist, which explains the affinity between Trump and Bernie Sanders. Finally, the inclination for political expediency and consolidating power in a select few, combined with a stubborn distrust of ambiguity and foreignness, tends to culminate in fervent nationalism. Indeed, Trump has reaped great success at the ballot box by masquerading jingoistic rhetoric as sincere patriotic pride. (To be sure, the left consistently misrepresents his remarks on illegal immigration as xenophobic; like a broken clock that is right twice a day, Trump is not always wrong). His nomination has brought Republicans at a crossroad, join Trump or start anew. For conservatives the choice is clear.

  28. Ronald May 9, 2016 9:44 pm

    Mercy, it sounds to me like you copied your rant out of some ideological propaganda work. Hayek is not taken seriously by any one today that has any perception of America and its long term future.

    You have a right to your views, of course, but conservatism in any form is bankrupt, with the goal of keeping wealth in the hands of a few, and doing their best to take away individual rights from groups not seen as in the mainstream by conservatives.

    Liberals and progressives have accomplished all of the great political, social, and economic reforms of the past hundred years, and conservatives have been left in the dust, and Trumpism will finally expose the reality that conservatism has no interest in caring about the America we live in, and they will go into the dustbin of history with the Republican Party and Donald Trump.

    I plan not to debate this any further with you, as I have better things to do with my time, and you will not find friendly responses on this blog by readers, I assure you. But you certainly have a right to have your views!

  29. Ronald May 9, 2016 10:40 pm

    Trump is a Fascist, a reactionary, a conservative of a certain type, and fits the Republicans perfectly, and they are in the dustbin of history!

  30. Princess Leia May 10, 2016 9:02 am

    Thanks for that Southern Liberal. Describes Trump to a T.

  31. Mercy May 10, 2016 10:47 am

    I believe that there is a fatal feature in today’s ruling class establishment and it is its belief that ordinary Americans are a lesser intellectual and social breed. Its increasing self-absorption, its growing contempt for whoever won’t bow to it, its dependence for votes on sectors of society whose grievances it stokes, have led it to break the most basic rule of republican life: deeming its opposition illegitimate. Once you view your opposition as having illegitimate and evil goals then there is no way back to civility in the political discourse because there is no dialogue possible.

  32. Princess Leia May 10, 2016 12:17 pm

    The fatal feature is that the Republicans let lobbyists and the wealthy control our politics.

  33. Mercy May 10, 2016 12:24 pm

    Princess Leia: I heard something similar before..where was it? Oh yeah, Bernie Sanders said that of Hillary and her Wall Street donors. By the way, when is Hillary going to release the transcript of her speech at Goldman Sachs? That and Trump’s “off the record” interview with the New York Times editorial board is what I want to read.

  34. Southern Liberal May 10, 2016 12:56 pm

    Right on, Leia and Pragmatic! 🙂

  35. Former Republican May 10, 2016 1:17 pm

    If he had run this time, several of us here would have preferred Joe Biden.

  36. Mercy May 10, 2016 3:47 pm

    Who knew that the following ideas, (1) fiscal discipline, free enterprise within a free competitive market, constitutionally limited government, and low taxes (economics and freedom); (2) moral standards (social); (3) and peace through strength (defense), would go into the dustbin of history and cause so much anger in some Americans?

  37. Mercy May 10, 2016 4:30 pm

    Liberal New York Times op-ed writer Nicholas Kristof penned his Sunday column, “A Confession of Liberal Intolerance,” which I find truly refreshing. “We progressives believe in diversity, and we want women, blacks, Latinos, gays and Muslims at the table,” he begins his column, “er, so long as they aren’t conservatives.” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/a-confession-of-liberal-intolerance.html

  38. Former Republican May 10, 2016 5:03 pm

    From personal experience, many conservatives that most of us have known in our lives (neighbors, family members, co-workers, etc.) are very narrow-minded.

  39. Mercy May 10, 2016 5:42 pm

    I could say exactly the same thing about liberals I know. Completely narrow minded, they just don’t want to listen or hear about data that contradicts some of their firm held beliefs. Like the myth of the gender wage gap for example. Some literally hold their hands over their ears so as not to listen. This is what happens when you deem those with opposing views as illegitimate and with evil motives. You just shut them out. So sad.

  40. Princess Leia May 10, 2016 6:36 pm

    Several of us here agreed that Kasich sounded the most reasonable of the Republican candidate choices.

  41. Princess Leia May 10, 2016 6:57 pm

    After reading the opinions of men who posted there, it’s very obvious we still have a long, long way to go in women’s fight for equality.

  42. Rustbelt Democrat May 10, 2016 7:35 pm

    Thanks for that Rustbelt.

  43. Princess Leia May 10, 2016 7:35 pm

    Thanks for that excellent article Rustbelt.

  44. Rational Lefty May 10, 2016 7:56 pm

    The possible benefit of having Trump as a GOP candidate is that he’s so manifestly unsuited for the job that it may impel some of these not-insane Republicans to re-consider their own stances. My own 89-year old uncle is a lifelong staunch Republican who subscribes to the notion that Obama has been a total disaster, but he as much as told me last weekend he is not voting for Trump. I think there is an excellent chance he votes for Clinton, but even if he simply doesn’t cast a vote at all, that is a huge advantage for the Democrats if the GOP is losing people like him. One key aspect of him is that while he’s very religious, it’s in the old school sense—he’s a Methodist, and does not subscribe to the religious beliefs of the Evangelicals. He has as much disdain for Cruz as he does Trump. Bizarrely, thanks to Trump, his vote is gettable for Clinton.

  45. Rustbelt Democrat May 10, 2016 9:17 pm

    Comments have disappeared into the Twilight Zone. Only two are showing up now.

    Professor, my wife, Princess Leia, typed her comment while I was still logged in. Please replace my 2nd comment from an hour ago with her comment from an hour ago.

    Rational Lefty – I’ve heard some Republicans amongst my circle of family and friends expressing the same thing in regards to voting for Trump.

  46. Ronald May 10, 2016 9:44 pm

    As far as I can tell, Rustbelt Democrat, all comments have ended up on here, with me only eliminating the similar comment that was repeated.

    Certainly, I did not remove any comment and never do.

    At worst, send the comment again as long as it is different than what has been posted.

  47. Southern Liberal May 10, 2016 10:07 pm

    For us, it’s saying there are 50+ replies but is showing less comments than that.

  48. Pragmatic Progressive May 10, 2016 10:09 pm

    To be able to read older comments, we’re having to click on the time beside each comment.

  49. Ronald May 10, 2016 10:19 pm

    I am aware of this problem and have asked someone for assistance, hopefully to resolve this issue.

    I will do whatever I can, but I am not a tech expert.

  50. Ronald May 10, 2016 10:20 pm

    Oh wait, I think it has just been resolved, at least for myself, and I hope so!

  51. Former Republican May 11, 2016 6:52 am

    Hasn’t been resolved for us yet.

  52. Ronald May 11, 2016 8:51 am

    I see that, Former Republican. It seems to be a glitch, only happening on this entry, as far as I can see.

    Trying to resolve it as best as I can, sorry!

  53. Southern Liberal May 11, 2016 12:16 pm

    We had figured that maybe you got sick of certain right-wingers that suddenly popped out of the woodwork. 😉

  54. Ronald May 11, 2016 6:04 pm

    HAHA, Southern Liberal, I see you are a “wise guy or gal”! LOL

    Finally, the problem was resolved and everything shows up.

  55. Princess Leia May 12, 2016 9:30 am

    The dictionary definition of conservative: a person who is averse to change and holds to traditional values and attitudes, typically in relation to politics.

    ———————————-

    Explains perfectly why right-wingers hate a changing culture.

  56. Former Republican May 13, 2016 9:33 am

    Our troll’s candidate Cruz is a theocrat, which is just as dangerous as Trump’s fascism.

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