Why low income whites usually vote for Trump

[Independent thinker]

I did not mean to say that at all. I meant to say the opposite: Republicans try to keep wages low and taxes for the rich low.. I am sorry about the misunderstanding.

Low wages are what helps keep prices low. Democrats were never able to understand that.

 

[TruthNotBS]

Low wages are what helps keep prices low. Democrats were never able to understand that.

Higher wages allow people to purchase more products, regardless if they're a bit more expensive. It stimulates the economy and generates more long-term profits for capitalists. Listen to this billionaire, who figured that out:

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[Hector12]

Low wages are what helps keep prices low. Democrats were never able to understand that.

Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. they are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.

- Adam Smith, from The Wealth of Nations

Reactionaries like to quote Adam Smith, but they rarely read him, or much of anything else, for that matter. Do you know who Adam Smith was?

 

[Independent thinker]

Higher wages allow people to purchase more products, regardless if they're a bit more expensive. It stimulates the economy and generates more long-term profits for capitalists. Listen to this billionaire, who figured that out:

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You idiot, rising wages are not keeping up with inflation. That’s why you lost.

 

[Dekster]

Trump's economic policies benefit rich people. I am not rich. I am reasonably well educated, and I did not vote for Trump.

Not everyone votes based on what's in it for them personally.

 

[Hector12]

You idiot, rising wages are not keeping up with inflation. That’s why you lost.

Let's see how things work out with Trump. His tariffs will raise prices. Elon Musk's plan to delete nearly one third of the federal budget will cause serious and lasting economic pain.

 

[BothWings]

In my workplace our most staunch Trump supporter is actually a 61-year-old black woman who lives on a 79-acre farm by herself. And she's anything but uneducated. She has a degree in criminal justice and another degree in culinary arts and has put both to good use. Kudos to that woman. Personally I'm not as outspoken about my general support for president Trump, but I still love to hear her get on her soapbox and make those little liberal tears start gushing!

 

[Mashmont]

The last time Donald Trump was president, he travelled to Youngstown, Ohio, among the most depressed of America’s rust belt cities, and promised voters the impossible.

The high-paying steel, railroad and car industry jobs that once made Youngstown a hard-living, hard-drinking blue-collar boom town were coming back, he said. “Don’t move. Don’t sell your house,” he crowed to a rapturous crowd in 2017. “We’re going to fill up those factories – or rip ”em down and build brand new ones”.

None of that happened. Indeed, within 18 months, General Motors (GM) announced that it was suspending operations at its one remaining manufacturing plant outside Youngstown, throwing 5,000 jobs into jeopardy in a community with little else to cling to. Trump’s reaction was to say the closure didn’t matter, because the jobs would be replaced “in, like, two minutes”.

That, too, did not happen. People moved away, marriages broke down, depression soared and, locals say, a handful of people took their own lives.

Ordinarily, politicians who promise the moon and fail to deliver get punished at the ballot box. But that did not happen to Trump either. Instead, he has steadily built up his popularity in Youngstown, a city that was once a well-oiled Democratic party machine but has now turned into one of his most remarkable bases of working-class support.

“Does [Trump] understand at all what you’re going through?” Joe Biden asked Ohio voters during the 2020 presidential campaign, referring directly to the GM closure. “Does he see you where you are and where you want to be? Does he care?”

To which the answer, in Youngstown, has been an astonishing and vigorous “yes”.

‘There are a lot of bitter people here, I’m one of them’: rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises | Donald Trump | The Guardian

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Arthur Jensen gave this interview to Jared Taylor in 1992. It is still as timely and relevant as the day it was recorded.

people have been taught from early childhood — and it’s especially true of better-educated people — that all people are essentially the same, except for very superficial differences due to their social background and advantages in upbringing and so forth…

Once you get below IQs of 80 or 75, which is the cut-off for mental retardation in the California School System, children are put into special classes. These persons are not really educable up to a level for which there’s any economic demand.

A Conversation with Arthur Jensen - American Renaissance

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Professor Jensen is mainly known for his writing about racial differences in average intelligence. What he has to say about IQs below 80 or 75 is equally true of the poorly educated whites Trump pretends to love, and who do love him.

As long as there were strong unions for factory workers, and plenty of factory jobs, white men with low IQs who could tolerate boredom for eight hours a day could earn reasonably good incomes. This is not true any more, as the following graph illustrates.

View attachment 1068858

Trump tells unemployed factory workers lies to give them hope of getting factory jobs. When they do not get factory jobs, he gives them people to hate.

The last time Donald Trump was president, he travelled to Youngstown, Ohio, among the most depressed of America’s rust belt cities, and promised voters the impossible.

The high-paying steel, railroad and car industry jobs that once made Youngstown a hard-living, hard-drinking blue-collar boom town were coming back, he said. “Don’t move. Don’t sell your house,” he crowed to a rapturous crowd in 2017. “We’re going to fill up those factories – or rip ”em down and build brand new ones”.

None of that happened. Indeed, within 18 months, General Motors (GM) announced that it was suspending operations at its one remaining manufacturing plant outside Youngstown, throwing 5,000 jobs into jeopardy in a community with little else to cling to. Trump’s reaction was to say the closure didn’t matter, because the jobs would be replaced “in, like, two minutes”.

That, too, did not happen. People moved away, marriages broke down, depression soared and, locals say, a handful of people took their own lives.

Ordinarily, politicians who promise the moon and fail to deliver get punished at the ballot box. But that did not happen to Trump either. Instead, he has steadily built up his popularity in Youngstown, a city that was once a well-oiled Democratic party machine but has now turned into one of his most remarkable bases of working-class support.

“Does [Trump] understand at all what you’re going through?” Joe Biden asked Ohio voters during the 2020 presidential campaign, referring directly to the GM closure. “Does he see you where you are and where you want to be? Does he care?”

To which the answer, in Youngstown, has been an astonishing and vigorous “yes”.

‘There are a lot of bitter people here, I’m one of them’: rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises | Donald Trump | The Guardian

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Arthur Jensen gave this interview to Jared Taylor in 1992. It is still as timely and relevant as the day it was recorded.

people have been taught from early childhood — and it’s especially true of better-educated people — that all people are essentially the same, except for very superficial differences due to their social background and advantages in upbringing and so forth…

Once you get below IQs of 80 or 75, which is the cut-off for mental retardation in the California School System, children are put into special classes. These persons are not really educable up to a level for which there’s any economic demand.

A Conversation with Arthur Jensen - American Renaissance

----------------

Professor Jensen is mainly known for his writing about racial differences in average intelligence. What he has to say about IQs below 80 or 75 is equally true of the poorly educated whites Trump pretends to love, and who do love him.

As long as there were strong unions for factory workers, and plenty of factory jobs, white men with low IQs who could tolerate boredom for eight hours a day could earn reasonably good incomes. This is not true any more, as the following graph illustrates.

View attachment 1068858

Trump tells unemployed factory workers lies to give them hope of getting factory jobs. When they do not get factory jobs, he gives them people to hate.

Oh dammit. Trump flipped Mahoning County (where Youngstown is) in 2020 after Hillary won it in 2016. He won it by an even greater margin in 2024. So I guess you're story is a lie. People love Trump in the Youngstown area.

Sorry.

 

[BothWings]

Most of the people I've met, both black and white, who are Democrats are low income.

 

[Kondor3]

The last time Donald Trump was president, he travelled to Youngstown, Ohio, among the most depressed of America’s rust belt cities, and promised voters the impossible.

The high-paying steel, railroad and car industry jobs that once made Youngstown a hard-living, hard-drinking blue-collar boom town were coming back, he said. “Don’t move. Don’t sell your house,” he crowed to a rapturous crowd in 2017. “We’re going to fill up those factories – or rip ”em down and build brand new ones”.

None of that happened. Indeed, within 18 months, General Motors (GM) announced that it was suspending operations at its one remaining manufacturing plant outside Youngstown, throwing 5,000 jobs into jeopardy in a community with little else to cling to. Trump’s reaction was to say the closure didn’t matter, because the jobs would be replaced “in, like, two minutes”.

That, too, did not happen. People moved away, marriages broke down, depression soared and, locals say, a handful of people took their own lives.

Ordinarily, politicians who promise the moon and fail to deliver get punished at the ballot box. But that did not happen to Trump either. Instead, he has steadily built up his popularity in Youngstown, a city that was once a well-oiled Democratic party machine but has now turned into one of his most remarkable bases of working-class support.

“Does [Trump] understand at all what you’re going through?” Joe Biden asked Ohio voters during the 2020 presidential campaign, referring directly to the GM closure. “Does he see you where you are and where you want to be? Does he care?”

To which the answer, in Youngstown, has been an astonishing and vigorous “yes”.

‘There are a lot of bitter people here, I’m one of them’: rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises | Donald Trump | The Guardian

----------------

Arthur Jensen gave this interview to Jared Taylor in 1992. It is still as timely and relevant as the day it was recorded.

people have been taught from early childhood — and it’s especially true of better-educated people — that all people are essentially the same, except for very superficial differences due to their social background and advantages in upbringing and so forth…

Once you get below IQs of 80 or 75, which is the cut-off for mental retardation in the California School System, children are put into special classes. These persons are not really educable up to a level for which there’s any economic demand.

A Conversation with Arthur Jensen - American Renaissance

----------------

Professor Jensen is mainly known for his writing about racial differences in average intelligence. What he has to say about IQs below 80 or 75 is equally true of the poorly educated whites Trump pretends to love, and who do love him.

As long as there were strong unions for factory workers, and plenty of factory jobs, white men with low IQs who could tolerate boredom for eight hours a day could earn reasonably good incomes. This is not true any more, as the following graph illustrates.

View attachment 1068858

Trump tells unemployed factory workers lies to give them hope of getting factory jobs. When they do not get factory jobs, he gives them people to hate.

More LibTard bull$hit.

You lost in 2024 because you were at-the-wheel during a period of high inflation.

You lost in 2024 because you had been spending taxpayer money like drunken sailors during your years in power.

You lost in 2024 because you let 12,000,000 Illegal Aliens into our country.

You lost in 2024 because you were too slow and too timid in your newly-rebranded Lawfare activity.

You lost in 2024 because you let males go into female bathrooms and play in female sports.

You lost in 2024 because you were so busy trying to shove DEI down our throats that you lost sight of our resentment.

You lost in 2024 because you caused a clusterphukk when we left Afghanistan.

You lost in 2024 because your poster boy was corrupt, his family was corrupt, and he lied his a$$ off to try to fool us.

You lost in 2024 because your poster boy had become feeble and had a catastrophic showing in the June 2024 debate.

You lost in 2024 because you corruptly anointed another candidate when you should have had an Open Convention.

You lost in 2024 because your new poster girl was the Queen of Word Salad and hung with her homies rather than Whites.

You lost in 2024 because your policies suck and because you overdid the Race-Card Baiting and Minority Vote Whoring.

Try looking in the mirror rather than blaming everybody and everything BUT yourselves... grow up... take responsibility.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

The dems have already made it so the poor will never be able to afford a home due to the millions of illegals they allowed in competing for the cheaper housing the poor could once afford.

Rent is stupid high all up and down the Shenandoah Valley now due to all the illegals working in poultry and warehousing operations.

Why would the poor vote for more of that?

Because they don't know any better?

 

[Hector12]

More LibTard bull$hit.

You lost in 2024 because you were at-the-wheel during a period of high inflation.

You lost in 2024 because you had been spending taxpayer money like drunken sailors during your years in power.

You lost in 2024 because you let 12,000,000 Illegal Aliens into our country.

You lost in 2024 because you were too slow and too timid in your newly-rebranded Lawfare activity.

You lost in 2024 because you let males go into female bathrooms and play in female sports.

You lost in 2024 because you were so busy trying to shove DEI down our throats that you lost sight of our resentment.

You lost in 2024 because you caused a clusterphukk when we left Afghanistan.

You lost in 2024 because your poster boy was corrupt, his family was corrupt, and he lied his a$$ off to try to fool us.

You lost in 2024 because your poster boy had become feeble and had a catastrophic showing in the June 2024 debate.

You lost in 2024 because you corruptly anointed another candidate when you should have had an Open Convention.

You lost in 2024 because your new poster girl was the Queen of Word Salad and hung with her homies rather than Whites.

You lost in 2024 because your policies suck and because you overdid the Race-Card Baiting and Minority Vote Whoring.

Try looking in the mirror rather than blaming everybody and everything BUT yourselves... grow up... take responsibility.

It seems like I hit a raw nerve writing about unemployed and unemployable factory workers voting for Trump.

 

[Hector12]

Oh dammit. Trump flipped Mahoning County (where Youngstown is) in 2020 after Hillary won it in 2016. He won it by an even greater margin in 2024. So I guess you're story is a lie. People love Trump in the Youngstown area.

Sorry.

That was my point. Trump has not done anything for them.

 

[Hector12]

Why do dirt-bag assholes like YOU vote for Marxists?
Oh, did I hit a nerve?

It looks like I hit one of your raw nerves too.

There are hardly any Marxists in the United States.

I have never voted for a Marxist in my life. I have known and liked members of the American Communist Party. Unlike you, they disagreed with me without being disagreeable.

 

[Correll]

It seems like I hit a raw nerve writing about unemployed and unemployable factory workers voting for Trump.

Sounds like he made a number of good points you failed to address.

And there is nothing wrong with factory workers voting for the guy that plans to work for factory jobs.

And it's strange that you think that there is.

 

[SeaMajor7]

It looks like I hit one of your raw nerves too.

There are hardly any Marxists in the United States.

I have never voted for a Marxist in my life. I have known and liked members of the American Communist Party. Unlike you, they disagreed with me without being disagreeable.

"There are hardly any Marxists in the United States."
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No jodas, Hector.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Why low income blacks usually vote for Democrats?

 

[Correll]

Why low income blacks usually vote for Democrats?

That's different. It's ok when low income blacks vote for dems. It's only bad when low income WHITES have a preference.


Becuase... racism. Probably. Or something like that.

 

[Hector12]

"There are hardly any Marxists in the United States."
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No jodas, Hector.

You obviously do not know what a Marxist is.

 

[luiza]

Ordinarily, politicians who promise the moon and fail to deliver get punished at the ballot box. But that did not happen to Trump either.

Evidently you were never capable of benefitting from higher education .

Your misunderstanding of the reasons why people vote in certain ways is glaring and profound .

As for your regurgitation of the defintions of IQ scoring bands -- you simply mis-reported or did not actually comprehend .

I speak as someone who obtained a BA Honours in Psychology and then went on and did post -graduate work .

Perhaps you are related to the Trojan Hector who was shredded by Achilles ( my Dad ).