Don't Kid Yourself: The KGB Cost Us This Election and Pretending it's Bathrooms is ridiculous

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52. I share your pain. I ALSO live in a super red area of a dark blue state.

The people in my area who bombard the local editorial pages at least are educated and can write a coherent rant. But they also are bitter deplorables who have a sense of entitlement and think that the world owes them something because they are here. They blame minorities for all the nation's ills and believe that their ills are always someone else's fault, never their own. Perhaps they are correct, but they are blaming the wrong people. They blame trade agreements but, vote for Trump who makes the overpriced products he sells at Macy's, overseas. They blame the Unions who fought for the good benefits that they receive and enable them to live a good life for the loss of good jobs. They hate state and federal government workers whose salaries historically trailed those salaries of major corporations and the many defense contractors in our state calling them fat cats because they have finally been receiving wages and salaries commensurate with their education and their skills. They blame Obama for the high cost of medical insurance but applauded the GOP for refusing to work with the President on an affordable health care system for ALL Americans and refused to allow the Federal Government to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies on drug prices when those same companies sell their same drugs around the world for much less than they charge here because other countries negotiate much lower prices.

I've said this here before on DU, but as a minority, I can accept this nation's shortcomings more easily even though my people can trace their presence here in America a lot further back than many of the more viceral hate mongers who are second and third generation Americans. My parents and my husband's parents both raised their children that the world owed them nothing and taught us to work hard for what you want and to appreciate what you have. So keeping up with the Joneses was never a problem with us and we passed these values on to our children. This doesn't mean that we don't like nice things or don't have nice things we just prioritize our wants and needs and we have always been savers because tomorrow is not guaranteed. Coming from a family of 9 kids, all college educated professionals, only two of us have never been laid off; my sister whose a nurse, and myself who has a degree in Accounting and has served in the military and worked for the federal government as an auditor and a contract Administrator for 27 years. I even have a sister whose a physician, and one whose a lawyer who have been laid off during recessions. No one had time for a pity party. You get to feel sorry for yourself for the rest of the day and then you get up the next morning and you start looking for your next job. Family members have relocated out of state for their next jobs. It seems only people in Rustbelt states feel entitled to wait for the next job to come to them, i.e. waiting for the proverbial mountain to come to Mohammed, instead of Mohammed going to the mountain. The mountain has never come to Mohammed.