Monday, October 17, 2016

Dangerous Idiots: How The Liberal Media Elite Failed Working-class Americans

Dangerous Idiots: How The Liberal Media Elite Failed Working-class Americans

October 17, 2016 Dangerous Idiots: How The Liberal Media Elite Failed Working-class Americans , 0 Comments


By The Guardian, Oct 13, 2016 

Last March, my 71-year-old grandmother, Betty, waited in line for three hours to caucus for Bernie Sanders. The wait to be able to cast her first-ever vote in a primary election was punishing, but nothing could have deterred her. Betty – a white woman who left school after ninth grade, had her first child at age 16 and spent much of her life in severe poverty – wanted to vote.

So she waited with busted knees that once stood on factory lines. She waited with smoking-induced emphysema and the false teeth she’s had since her late 20s – both markers of our class. She waited with a womb that in the 1960s, before Roe v Wade, she paid a stranger to thrust a wire hanger inside after she discovered she was pregnant by a man she’d fled after he broke her jaw.

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