At one point during the rapid deindustrialization of the rust belt the economy was so devastated they were stripping the siding off shuttered factory buildings and houses to sell as scrap to China to build the new factories there https://twitter.com/cjane87/status/1325160522778468353">https://twitter.com/cjane87/s...
We now tolerate about 70 thousand drug overdose deaths a year, and the only reason it has been ticking down is because so many drug users have died already, there aren& #39;t all that many left
Marriage rates have plummeted among lower class men, and this has lead to an increase in violence, out of wedlock births and risky behavior, suicide is trending up as well
The manufacturing jobs were replaced by humiliating work in the service sector, which was absolutely devastated by the pandemic lockdown crash
So give me a break with this cultural resentment stuff low status men of all races and ethnicities across the political divide are bitter and filled with resentment and some of their grievances are legit
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