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This page contains some general guidelines. The Problems with Vinyl Windows (And Why We Don’t Install Them). Donald Trump engaged in crude and demeaning conversations about women over a 17-year-period with radio. Time and project management series My daily schedule: Review how you spend your time in order to help you prioritize your goals and objectives.What So Many People Don’t Get About the U. S. Working Class. My father- in- law grew up eating blood soup. He hated it, whether because of the taste or the humiliation, I never knew. His alcoholic father regularly drank up the family wage, and the family was often short on food money. They were evicted from apartment after apartment. He dropped out of school in eighth grade to help support the family. Eventually he got a good, steady job he truly hated, as an inspector in a factory that made those machines that measure humidity levels in museums. He tried to open several businesses on the side but none worked, so he kept that job for 3. He rose from poverty to a middle- class life: the car, the house, two kids in Catholic school, the wife who worked only part- time. He worked incessantly. He had two jobs in addition to his full- time position, one doing yard work for a local magnate and another hauling trash to the dump. The IMF and World Bank structural adjustment policies have led to a spiraling race to the bottom for the developing countries that have followed their prescriptions. 5 imaging gems for veterinarians: How digital radiography can make your practice sparkle. Worried that DR will become obsolete as soon as yo. Throughout the 1. The Wall Street Journal and voted Republican. He was a man before his time: a blue- collar white man who thought the union was a bunch of jokers who took your money and never gave you anything in return. Starting in 1. 97. This week, their candidate won the presidency. For months, the only thing that’s surprised me about Donald Trump is my friends’ astonishment at his success. What’s driving it is the class culture gap. One little- known element of that gap is that the white working class (WWC) resents professionals but admires the rich. Class migrants (white- collar professionals born to blue- collar families) report that “professional people were generally suspect” and that managers are college kids “who don’t know shit about how to do anything but are full of ideas about how I have to do my job,” said Alfred Lubrano in Limbo. Barbara Ehrenreich recalled in 1. Lawyers were shysters. For one thing, most blue- collar workers have little direct contact with the rich outside of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. But professionals order them around every day. The dream is not to become upper- middle- class, with its different food, family, and friendship patterns; the dream is to live in your own class milieu, where you feel comfortable — just with more money. Owning one’s own business — that’s the goal. That’s another part of Trump’s appeal. Hillary Clinton, by contrast, epitomizes the dorky arrogance and smugness of the professional elite. The dorkiness: the pantsuits. The arrogance: the email server. The smugness: the basket of deplorables. Worse, her mere presence rubs it in that even women from her class can treat working- class men with disrespect. Look at how she condescends to Trump as unfit to hold the office of the presidency and dismisses his supporters as racist, sexist, homophobic, or xenophobic. Trump’s blunt talk taps into another blue- collar value: straight talk. As one blue- collar guy told him, “If you have a problem with me, come talk to me. If you have a way you want something done, come talk to me. I don’t like people who play these two- faced games.” Straight talk is seen as requiring manly courage, not being “a total wuss and a wimp,” an electronics technician told Lamont. Of course Trump appeals. Clinton’s clunky admission that she talks one way in public and another in private? Further proof she’s a two- faced phony. Manly dignity is a big deal for working- class men, and they’re not feeling that they have it. Trump promises a world free of political correctness and a return to an earlier era, when men were men and women knew their place. It’s comfort food for high- school- educated guys who could have been my father- in- law if they’d been born 3. Today they feel like losers — or did until they met Trump. Manly dignity is a big deal for most men. So is breadwinner status: Many still measure masculinity by the size of a paycheck. White working- class men’s wages hit the skids in the 1. Great Recession. Look, I wish manliness worked differently. But most men, like most women, seek to fulfill the ideals they’ve grown up with. For many blue- collar men, all they’re asking for is basic human dignity (male varietal). Trump promises to deliver it. The Democrats’ solution? Last week the New York Times published an article advising men with high- school educations to take pink- collar jobs. Talk about insensitivity. Elite men, you will notice, are not flooding into traditionally feminine work. To recommend that for WWC men just fuels class anger. Isn’t what happened to Clinton unfair? It is unfair that she wasn’t a plausible candidate until she was so overqualified she was suddenly unqualified due to past mistakes. It is unfair that Clinton is called a “nasty woman” while Trump is seen as a real man. It’s unfair that Clinton only did so well in the first debate because she wrapped her candidacy in a shimmy of femininity. When she returned to attack mode, it was the right thing for a presidential candidate to do but the wrong thing for a woman to do. The election shows that sexism retains a deeper hold than most imagined. But women don’t stand together: WWC women voted for Trump over Clinton by a whopping 2. If they’d split 5. Class trumps gender, and it’s driving American politics. Policy makers of both parties — but particularly Democrats if they are to regain their majorities — need to remember five major points. Understand That Working Class Means Middle Class, Not Poor. The terminology here can be confusing. When progressives talk about the working class, typically they mean the poor. But the poor, in the bottom 3. American families, are very different from Americans who are literally in the middle: the middle 5. That is the true “middle class,” and they call themselves either “middle class” or “working class.”“The thing that really gets me is that Democrats try to offer policies (paid sick leave! A few days’ paid leave ain’t gonna support a family. Neither is minimum wage. WWC men aren’t interested in working at Mc. Donald’s for $1. 5 per hour instead of $9. What they want is what my father- in- law had: steady, stable, full- time jobs that deliver a solid middle- class life to the 7. Americans who don’t have a college degree. I doubt he’ll deliver, but at least he understands what they need. Understand Working- Class Resentment of the Poor. Remember when President Obama sold Obamacare by pointing out that it delivered health care to 2. Just another program that taxed the middle class to help the poor, said the WWC, and in some cases that’s proved true: The poor got health insurance while some Americans just a notch richer saw their premiums rise. Progressives have lavished attention on the poor for over a century. That (combined with other factors) led to social programs targeting them. Means- tested programs that help the poor but exclude the middle may keep costs and tax rates lower, but they are a recipe for class conflict. Example: 2. 8. 3% of poor families receive child- care subsidies, which are largely nonexistent for the middle class. So my sister- in- law worked full- time for Head Start, providing free child care for poor women while earning so little that she almost couldn’t pay for her own. She resented this, especially the fact that some of the kids’ moms did not work. One arrived late one day to pick up her child, carrying shopping bags from Macy’s. My sister- in- law was livid. J. D. Vance’s much- heralded Hillbilly Elegy captures this resentment. Hard- living families like that of Vance’s mother live alongside settled families like that of his biological father. While the hard- living succumb to despair, drugs, or alcohol, settled families keep to the straight and narrow, like my parents- in- law, who owned their home and sent both sons to college. To accomplish that, they lived a life of rigorous thrift and self- discipline. Vance’s book passes harsh judgment on his hard- living relatives, which is not uncommon among settled families who kept their nose clean through sheer force of will. This is a second source of resentment against the poor. Other books that get at this are Hard Living on Clay Street (1. Working- Class Heroes (2. Understand How Class Divisions Have Translated into Geography. The best advice I’ve seen so far for Democrats is the recommendation that hipsters move to Iowa. Class conflict now closely tracks the urban- rural divide. In the huge red plains between the thin blue coasts, shockingly high numbers of working- class men are unemployed or on disability, fueling a wave of despair deaths in the form of the opioid epidemic. Vast rural areas are withering away, leaving trails of pain. When did you hear any American politician talk about that? Never. Jennifer Sherman’s Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t (2. If You Want to Connect with White Working- Class Voters, Place Economics at the Center“The white working class is just so stupid. Don’t they realize Republicans just use them every four years, and then screw them?” I have heard some version of this over and over again, and it’s actually a sentiment the WWC agrees with, which is why they rejected the Republican establishment this year. But to them, the Democrats are no better. Both parties have supported free- trade deals because of the net positive GDP gains, overlooking the blue- collar workers who lost work as jobs left for Mexico or Vietnam. These are precisely the voters in the crucial swing states of Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania that Democrats have so long ignored. Who’s stupid? One key message is that trade deals are far more expensive than we’ve treated them, because sustained job development and training programs need to be counted as part of their costs. At a deeper level, both parties need an economic program that can deliver middle- class jobs. Republicans have one: Unleash American business. They remain obsessed with cultural issues. I fully understand why transgender bathrooms are important, but I also understand why progressives’ obsession with prioritizing cultural issues infuriates many Americans whose chief concerns are economic.
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