On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 08:54 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Somehow, I don't' buy that the "masses who turned to Trump" were the > desperately hungry and homeless. > >
The more than 70 million voters and counting who have turned to Trump are not "desperately hungry and homeless", but they are nevertheless experiencing a general crisis of unaffordability and indebtedness resulting from stagnant or falling real wages. Their ranks reach up into the most privileged stratum of the working class - young college educated professionals forced to take precarious jobs in the gig economy who can't afford decent housing, and are caught on the student debt treadmill. Which is not to say that sexism and racism weren't again a factor again propelling Trump back to the WH, but his margin of victory is indicative of how decisive the economic factor has been this time round. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33345): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33345 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109427796/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
