Vice President Joe Biden talked about why Democrats lost the presidential election -- saying bluntly that the party had collectively overlooked key constituencies, particularly rural, working-class Americans.
“We lost because of awful lot of hard-working Americans who live in areas where we did not pay much attention to,” he said at a reception celebrating a Hindu festival. “Barack Obama won these people. They are not racist. They did not vote for the Democrats this time.”
Globalization, Biden said, has fundamentally altered the economic outlook for these voters -- especially blue-collar white American men -- who are feeling left behind by the political process.
“For the first time in recent memory, this is one section of American population where the life expectancy has gone down,” he added. “It is white American men between the age of 40 and 55. They have the highest suicide rate in America. Because they do not know how to deal with this new incredible change that is taking place in the world.”
“Remember, we won these same people,” Biden continued.
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“Remember, we won these same people,” Biden continued.
ReplyDeleteSo what?
But you never WERE these people or took time to know them.
ReplyDeleteIt is not that we cannot adjust. It is because we cannot stand your type of people (Biden) ruining this country. It is because we are tired of being called names and dismissed because we are white. I saw a quote one time and it might have been on this site. Something like, "How can you hold me responsible for my ancestors' actions when you will not hold your own kids responsible for their actions." We ignorant white middle aged men are pissed!! Oh, and most of us did not vote for Obama. We were the ones telling people what he was going to do to this country. AND, we were right, as the right usually is!!
ReplyDeleteBiden would have won for the Democrats if he had run.
ReplyDeleteI'm a deplorable and proud of it.
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