Wednesday Open Thread No More Defenses for the Deplorables

[sheshe2]

How Many Damn Defenses of That Basket of Deplorables Do We Need?
Michael Arceneaux

Last November, a majority of white people in America voted for a bigot for president. If you voted for a man who campaigned on xenophobia, racism, sexism and other strains of bigotry, you either share his prejudices or you are complicit in them. The former makes you an audacious racist; the latter, a bystander, which in and of itself is a racist act. Nothing about that reality has changed since Habanero Hitler was declared the winner of the 2016 presidential election or officially sworn in to office.

In the news analysis “Are Liberals Helping Trump?” Sabrina Tavernise, a national correspondent for the Times, echoes all of the greatest hits associated with any defense of 45’s supporters.

First, there is the introduction of the 45 voter, who in this case is Jeffrey Medford, “a small-business owner in South Carolina” who apparently “voted reluctantly for Donald Trump.” Next we get his rationale for helping to elect a monster who is presently trying to reintroduce a travel ban aimed at people from primarily Muslim countries while stripping protection of transgender children in public schools. For Medford, it was the sentiment that “as a conservative, he felt the need to choose the Republican.”

Then comes the bullshit: the idea that assigning culpability is cruel and unjust, not to mention the cries of victimhood.

More: https://3chicspolitico.com/2017/03/01/wednesday-open-thread-no-more-defenses-for-the-deplorables/
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We are only at the tip of the iceberg, the pain, suffering and death will me immense and the damage to the world may well prove to be irreversible.

[ProudLib72]

1. The thing I picked up on

was Habanero Hitler. I haven't heard that one before.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

2. I'm so sick of that tired approach. Whatever their reasons for voting for him,

in reality, they voted for a dishonest, egomaniacal, misogynistic, uninformed, simple-minded, vocabulary deficient, selfish, bully. It's a national disgrace that he was elected.

This makes me think, too, of how Jared Kushner has turned totally into a RWer, after having been a Dem all his life. He claims that it was meeting and listening to the rust belt guys that really won him over. I guess he grew up only knowing rich, "elite" Democrats so doesn't get that there are countless Democrats who are just as (if not more) down and out as the rust belters.

Why doesn't he meet some of them and listen to their stories? Why should the plight of those few people trying to hang onto, in many cases terrible, jobs in often environmentally damaging or otherwise harmful industries take precedence?