Hmm... Maybe the average person should have worked a little harder and tried to better themselves a little more and they wouldn't have found themselves in such a bind.
I went to college. I worked hard. I kept my nose clean. I learned to be courteous and professional. I moved away from home to find more opportunities. I worked multiple jobs and denied myself luxuries in order to improve my financial stability. I learned to appreciate culture and become more well-rounded. I learned to read and parse arguments and to thoughtfully weigh them against each other. In short, I did everything that everybody in my (poor-ish, working class) family and church taught me to do. And now that makes me an elitist?
I understand why we lost. And I don't disagree that maybe I'm out of touch with "the average person". But who's fault is that? Is it mine? Or is it the fault of the people who didn't put in as much effort to better themselves? These charges of elitism sound more and more like excuses for people who are stuck being lazy, unmotivated, and unwilling to challenge themselves.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not with that first line...
Assuming not, I agree with the idea of working hard, etc. etc. etc. but I also recognize that things can happen outside of your control. For a lot of people, the jobs simply came back after the 08 recession, or if they did, they were McJobs. Add to this the rise of intersectional/identity politics and you have a huge swathe of middle Americans who were not only suffering, but demonized as having it too good.
As for being elitist, I'm not necessarily talking about you. I'm talking about people like CNN's Van Jones, who blamed the election on a so-called 'whitelash' against Obama and then went to Ohio to meet some of the people who voted for Trump. Van Jones has a net worth of over a million, IRC, and you had him on his show talking to people who were definitely your average Americans who were struggling, and it blew his mind they weren't white Nationalists.
Then you have people online or off who push the idea that minorities cannot be racist, women cannot be sexist, etc. etc. So you have extremists in groups like the BLM movement calling for the murder of whites and cops, and when someone says that sounds hateful or they happen to share their belief that there should be less genders than Baskin Robbins has flavors, they're shouted down and told to check their privilege.
So all this talk about how hateful or stupid Trump supporters are... it's the same thing that made the liberals lose last time.
BTW, if you're not lazy, change your user title. You aren't a Newbie, you were here last time I was.
