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What The Left Will Never Understand About Middle Class Americans
Townhall ^ | Mar 11, 2024 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 03/11/2024 3:21:00 PM PDT by george76

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1 posted on 03/11/2024 3:21:00 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

They think millions of drones going to work in steel mills and cutting grain with scythes.

Like it was a hundred years ago.


2 posted on 03/11/2024 3:24:09 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: george76

They could care less. They hate us and they want us dead.


3 posted on 03/11/2024 3:24:46 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: george76

Every time they talk about the white working class voting “against its interests” what they really want is to taser them repeatedly until they “stop resisting” and take the soma of welfare benefits from programs administered by their degreed “betters.”


4 posted on 03/11/2024 3:25:49 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Noumenon

Too few people realize this.


5 posted on 03/11/2024 3:25:52 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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… because real Americans just want to be left alone by their government.

I agree with this, but I suspect the number of people who fit this definition of “real Americans” is actually very small — perhaps 15% of the population at most.

I would say the share of the population that homeschools their kids is a good indicator of just how many “real Americans” there are out there.

6 posted on 03/11/2024 3:27:04 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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I wouldn’t have been a good home schoolteacher. But two of three of my kids turned out great. The other is struggling with issues. I did have to move my daughter to a private school because she was being bullied by hideous ugly girls (my daughter is gorgeous and smart.) But after that she did fine. True I had to get her tutoring in math because the public school in our upper middle-class suburb hadn’t cut the mustard in math, but after that she did fine.


7 posted on 03/11/2024 3:33:08 PM PDT by yldstrk
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Our government is telling us terror threats across every demographic is higher than it's been before. The top cause of death for 18-45 year olds is Fentanyl.
8 posted on 03/11/2024 3:34:53 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: yldstrk

Good points. “Homeschooling” is more than just parents teaching their own kids. Many of these kids are taught by groups of parents that run cooperative informal private schools.


9 posted on 03/11/2024 3:35:59 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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We in the flyover country are the modern day version of the Russian Kulaks.

Be prepared.


10 posted on 03/11/2024 3:39:41 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Make orwell fiction again)
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Is there much of a middle class left? What is the annual income to be “middle class” with the inflation rate?


11 posted on 03/11/2024 3:44:38 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Noumenon

Exactly.

And the feeling is mutual. There is no coexistence with these communist/Nazi psychopaths, And folks on our side should stop, pretending that there is.


12 posted on 03/11/2024 3:51:47 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Noumenon

That’s how I feel about leftism.


13 posted on 03/11/2024 3:54:24 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: george76
The people who run the GOP-e do not understand us either.

Their god is their bank account.

Money is nice. But I got my little farm and my little business and my little family. We cover the necessities and a few luxuries. We go to church, have fun at local events and make twice yearly trips to see the family.

Life is good.

Except the government wants to say I can not take care of my animals. I will have to take them to a big animal vet rather then dealing with things I have done for years on my own. Because.... well you can not actually get an answer.

And the government is saying I have to have more inspections on what I am selling.

And now I am annoyed.

And a couple of years ago they told me I could not go to church.

Or visit my family.

Or travel.

Or have local events.

Or go to the park.

I did it any way and moving into peeved territory.

And now they are saying I can not educate my kids without jumping through government hoops.

I am now angry.

They will not like me when I am angry.

I just want the government to protect me from invasion, lock up habitual criminals and otherwise leave me be.

So far they are batting a zero.

14 posted on 03/11/2024 4:51:46 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: yldstrk

Quit my career to raise my kids.

Volunteered pretty much ever day at their school and home schooled them after school. They had algebra down by the end of the 3rd grade.

Each time I found out was pregnant, I’d start singing the “ABC” song!!! That was also their nighttime lullaby.

All have post-grad degrees. Worked hard and had a blast doing it!


15 posted on 03/11/2024 4:57:45 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Noumenon
They could care less.

I don't think they care at all.

16 posted on 03/11/2024 5:13:12 PM PDT by ytrebil
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To: READINABLUESTATE

My Grandfather’s family in Kiev were considered Kulaks during the Bolshevik Revolution.

Somehow his parent’s got their 2 son’s out by getting them enlisted in the U.S. army during WWI. My Great-Grandparents later were starved to death during the Holodomor.

They were middle class.

Ruling elites have hated the middle class for centuries.


17 posted on 03/11/2024 5:13:48 PM PDT by lizma2
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I quit practicing law to be a full time stay at home mom, too. Loved it. Still would have not been a good home school teacher. Read to my kids every night. It was the best time of my life.


18 posted on 03/11/2024 5:17:09 PM PDT by yldstrk
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“.....Ruling elites have hated the middle class for centuries”

History repeats itself. Especially when the past has been flushed down the memory hole.


19 posted on 03/11/2024 5:28:07 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Make orwell fiction again)
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To: yldstrk

I was an Ophthalmologist at the time before I quite.

Totally understand. Sooooo worth it!

(The fact my mom was a teacher might have helped with my home schooling.)


20 posted on 03/11/2024 5:38:30 PM PDT by lizma2
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