deep thoughts for a Monday morning

[orangerful]

Very interesting read from the Harvard Business Review - What So Many People Don't Get about the U.S. Working Class?

Biggest issue is they forgot to say WHITE working class right upfront but otherwise, I found this fascinating and a way to try to understand what was going on in their minds. I don't agree with their decision to support Trump, but the first steps to fixing any problem is understanding both sides, right?

And, of course, these are not the only people that voted for Trump, but this is the group getting the bulk of the blame.

Decent comments too! I mean, some people are just angry, but others have good points about the article, other issues, and where they disagree but still relatively civil!

I've added a safety pin to my work lanyard as a silent protest and a nod to anyone who feels unsafe in these times.

Comments

[rahirah]

I grew up lower middle class -- my dad was a bus driver, my mother a stay-at-home mom until my dad got sick, at which point she went back to bookkeeping. We were never in danger of being out on the street, but we ate a lot of hot dogs, and most of our clothes and furniture and cars and pretty much everything else were second-hand. Mom once told me there were times she had to pay a ten dollar doctor's bill in installments. (Granted ten dollars was worth a lot more in the 1960s than now.) My parents were/are both racist as fuck -- but I've only realized just how racist as my mother's gotten older, and her filters have come off. They are a generation or two older than the people this article talks about. It's depressing as hell that in those two generations, there's been so little change. And I can't claim to be free of the influence myself, since after all, these people raised me.

Sigh. None of this is going to be easy, but I don't think we can make it any easier by trying to claim the ugliest parts don't exist. :(