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In
election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man Gary
Hubbell February
9, 2008 There
is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections,
as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a
lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two
groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American —
while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their
party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain. Each
candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest
groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children
of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians. There
is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will
decide the election: the Angry White His
common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone —
just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing
field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs
several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard. The
victimhood syndrome buzzwords — “disenfranchised,”
“marginalized” and “voiceless” — don’t resonate with him.
“Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used
to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party,
three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding. He
believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a
“living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of
judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives. The
Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to
defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to
defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing
someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him. The
Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody
like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together
and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless
and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National
Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter. His
last name and religion don’t matter. His background might be
Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he
might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he
considers himself a white American. He’s
a man’s man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch
football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few
bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and
build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and
doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an
addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well,
weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books.
He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power
plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it
took to flip that light switch. Women
either love him or hate him, but they know he’s a man, not a
dishrag. If they’re looking for someone to walk all over, they’ve
got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and
says “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am.” He
might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a
Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than
rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner. He’s
not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of
certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst
stereotypes of their race. He’s willing to give everybody a fair
chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English. Most
important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site
becomes flooded with illegal workers who don’t pay taxes and his
wages drop like a stone, he gets righteously angry. When his job gets
shipped overseas, and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot
in He
also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice
reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight
of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot
fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It’s not that she
is a woman. It’s that she is who she is. It’s the liberal victim
groups she panders to, the “poor me” attitude that she represents,
her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax
dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for
themselves. There
are many millions of Angry White Men. Four million Angry White Men are
members of the National Rifle Association, and all of them will vote
against Hillary Clinton, just as the great majority of them voted for
George Bush. He hopes that she will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, and he will make sure that she gets beaten like a drum
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