Whites in America today suffer from a sort of reverse racism, only it's always that bad government or Obama's fault, when he is gone they will blame Hillary. They can cry and whine and blame others for their own actions. When they support each other and support policies that move their neighborhood forward then they will be winners again, great again. Kinda funny how this works today.
"Here is where the rhetoric of modern conservatives (and I say this as one of them) fails to meet the real challenges of their biggest constituents. Instead of encouraging engagement, conservatives increasingly foment the kind of detachment that has sapped the ambition of so many of my peers. I have watched some friends blossom into successful adults and others fall victim to the worst of Middletown's temptations-premature parenthood, drugs, incarceration. What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It's not your fault that you're a loser; it's the government's [ or Obama's] fault.
My dad, for example, has never disparaged hard work, but he mistrusts some of the most obvious paths to upward mobility. When he found out that I had decided to go to Yale Law, he asked whether, on my applications, I had "pretended to be black or liberal." This is how low the cultural expectations of working-class white Americans have fallen. We should hardly be surprised that as attitudes like this one spread, the number of people willing to work for a better life diminishes.
The Pew Economic Mobility Project studied how Americans evaluated their chances at economic betterment, and what they found was shocking. There is no group of Americans more pessimistic than working-class whites. Well over half of blacks, Latinos, and college-educated whites expect that their children will fare better economically than they have. Among workingclass whites, only 44 percent share that expectation. Even more surprising, 42 percent of working-class whites by far the highest number in the survey report that their lives are less economically successful than those of their parents'. " excerpt from 'Hillbilly Elegy' by JD Vance
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