The most hated bastards in America, stomped on by upper class bitchs and their colored lackeys.

Why do we put up with these low life upper class fascist pigs who keep rubbing our faces in the mud, booting us in the head, trying to castrate us, god knows what else.

Our enemies run this country, run all political parties, all media, and Bush's homeland security is to suppress any try we make at rebellion.

In America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters, ....the Republican resurgence from the 1980s to the 2000 election was due to non-union white working-class men abandoning the Democratic party, with over 20 percent of them switching from Democrats to non-voters or third party supporters or Republicans between 1960 to 2000.

debunk the myth ...of a swing towards rightwing, conservative values. Polls show ..... these voters, like most of the country, became slightly more liberal in the 1980s and 1990s. Nor did working-class white men become more anti-government. They did, however, become...disappointed in government, feeling....little for them. ....those "not protected by a union, a bachelor's degree or affirmative action [who have] lost much ground in wages and benefits over the past quarter-century, while often being culturally and politically lumped into the 'white male' power structure with whom they share little but the color of their genitalia."

When income trends are broken down, working-class white men are the only group for which median income actually fell from 1979 to 1998.......who actually saw a new generation earn less than their fathers. Deindustrialization, globalization and de-unionization meant good jobs disappearing...... attribute the change in voting patterns to bitterness at falling behind economically. They recommend that the Democratic party take up a platform that would help working-class white men as well as other working-class people — universal health care, retirement security, and access to education.

When I told one long-time progressive activist I was writing a cross-class alliance building manual, this reply popped out of her mouth: "We don't have to worry about those red parts of the country anymore, now that people of color are a majority." She was referring to the color code of the 2000 Bush/Gore election map, in which the middle and south of the country tended to vote red Republican and the northern coasts and northern midwest tended to vote blue Democrat, labeled Red America and Blue America by David Brooks in "One Nation, Slightly Divisible" (Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 2001). She was also referring to a recent Census announcement that people of color are now over 30 percent of the US population, but would be over 50 percent by 2050. I had not specified white working class people in my description of the project; it's interesting how often the words "working class" evoke a white image, and usually a white male image. And her image was not only white, but middle American and conservative. Her voice was full of scorn for white working class people, and relief that she now didn't need to work with them to keep the Republicans out of office. She was imagining a voting bloc made up of people of color and white middle-class liberals like herself.

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Ah, that's a relief. just had to say it the way it is.

Good to get these things off your chest.

Feel all big and shiny now, do we?

Oh yes..."working class white" is the new neo-klan speak for "still-hugging cracker".

Clearvoice you aren't brightest crayon in the Crayola box are ya?

I prefer small town, low rent, bitter gun toting Peckerwoods myself.

At least I don't write my posts in it. Small town, low rent, bitter, racist peckerwood holyrollers...

How's that?

I don't believe in that religion bullshit. In my youth, on occasion we were known to tear pages out of the bible and roll massive joints with it.

I wonder if the Pope would add that to his list of sacriledge.

I ate out with a friend — someone proud to call herself a Massachusetts liberal — and the waitress got her order wrong. My friend said, "Well, if she was smart, she wouldn't be a waitress."

—Jenny Levison

My mother is a passionate liberal Democrat. Her long-time housekeeper, a Mexican immigrant Pentacostal, voted for Bush on moral grounds. My mother says of her, "These people just don't understand!"

—Polly Cleveland

"Of course I am going to be patronizing to workers, I'm educated."

—Stephen Dempsey

A faculty friend of mine and I use to talk about classes I taught on issues of hunger and homelessness. The faculty person, who came from working class roots, said "Those homeless people like being homeless; they choose to be that way, and they like living under the bridge". My mouth instantly dropped!

[Brainwashed]

When I was a cashier at a food co-op, I hated it when members would say, "Have a great week-end," assuming that I had 2-day weekends off!

—Lori Wyman

An upper-class activist was complaining to me about some women from a public housing project. My acquaintance was a member of a group that was trying to form an alliance with the public housing women in order to determine the needs of the housing community that they might be able to work together on. They had the right idea of joining together to form an alliance where everyone could contribute and learn. But ...organized a meeting to be held in her home....complained when nobody from the project showed up; ...Her home was distant in the fanciest part of town and, in addition, there were hardly any bus routes leading to it.

—Sally Thomas

This is an excerpt from an email promoting an annual conference of progressives.

One word about pricing and payment. This year we have set the price at the bare minimum to make sure that everybody who is motivated to participate can. On the other hand, we have also decided that anybody who does not feel committed enough to pay is not committed enough to participate. The price is $100 per day and there is no free lunch (no Santa Clause either, its a tough world out there), no discounts, and workexchange by invitation only. We encourage you to sign up early as we want to make sure everyone in our community who wants to attend can, but the event is designed to sell out at this price."

—Terry Masters

As a progressive non-profit director frequently surrounded by other directors who come from more affluent means ...my background as a person who grew up in a single parent family....on welfare and food stamps....When I shared this on one occasion the first response.... was that they didn't know that about me and were surprised because "I speak so well".

As an anti-racist activist I challenge statements like that when they are said by fellow white people about people of color. When it was said to me, about me, I had nothing to say, I was just surprised.

—Bill Vandenberg

When I was about 21 years old, I worked as a live-in nanny for a wealthy white family. I was working under the table and living in their home. I was "hired" because the mother had golf tournaments to attend, and she needed childcare. That year while her husband was doing taxes on April 15th, she threw her arms up in disgust and said, "I just can't believe it! We have to pay $50,000 to the federal government ALONE! We'll be supporting over 500 Boston families this year!" I was astounded that 1) she felt it was okay to share this information with me so casually, and 2) that they made so much money in the first place, and 3)that she thought supporting poor families was a bad thing! I don't know if people who are wealthy their entire lives have any clue whatsoever about poor people, or if they just don't care how their privilege appears to other people.

—Sonia Belliveau

I was in college — an elite college where class stuff went down everyday. ..... I had won an internship in N. Dakota and had received a scholarship from the Dean to get airfare to go to fulfill my internship, but they wanted to issue it on a reimbursement basis. I didn't have money or a credit card, nor the safety net of my parents. When I tried to explain this to the woman, she simply told me: Well, ask a friend if you can buy it on their credit card. I didn't end up going, because none of my friends had credit .....this woman called herself a liberal working on behalf of young women's development.

—Ana