Vast swaths of the American middle class are dipshits. That’s why people are living in their cars. There was a time when a person could work a blue collar job and get an apartment or even a house. I worked in the grocery business from the early 80’s to 1999 in the Bay Area. When I started, every middle aged guy there owned a home, raised a family and had great benefits. Same could be said for all kinds of jobs all over the USA.
Then people decided that unions were bad, but greed was good.
I remember when I moved to Southern California in the early aughts after changing careers, the unions here were threatening to strike. A letter to the local paper summed up every dipshit that will vote against their own best interest. The letter writer was “shocked” to learn that her produce man made like $19/hour. This moron, rather than view this good job as a positive for the community could only think that the bag of apples cost more because of this guy.
So many people need to be drop kicked to the sun for their idiocy.
Thomas Frank continues to be right -
