Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class WarCrown, 24. jún. 2008 - 288 síđur Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war. By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks." Deer Hunting with Jesus is Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia. Like countless American small towns, it is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. Two in five of the people in his old neighborhood do not have high school diplomas or health care. Alcohol, overeating, and Jesus are the preferred avenues of escape. He writes of: • His childhood friends who work at factory jobs that are constantly on the verge of being outsourced • The mortgage and credit card rackets that saddle the working poor with debt • The ubiquitous gun culture—and why the left doesn’ t get it • Scots Irish culture and how it played out in the young life of Lynddie England |
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... Meanwhile , the Left has largely tuned them out , or even laughed at their predicament . Of their degraded state - and , therefore , ours - Joe Bageant writes like an avenging angel . " -Mark Crispin Miller , author of Fooled Again ...
... Meanwhile , the Left has largely tuned them out , or even laughed at their predicament . Of their degraded state - and , therefore , ours - Joe Bageant writes like an avenging angel . " -Mark Crispin Miller , author of Fooled Again ...
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... Meanwhile , if you believe the national story line , all these nameless competing working folks constitute some great American middle class . But the fact is , we are a working - class country . If we define " working class " simply as ...
... Meanwhile , if you believe the national story line , all these nameless competing working folks constitute some great American middle class . But the fact is , we are a working - class country . If we define " working class " simply as ...
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... Meanwhile , we have what my people see as the " liberal elite , " the people still living the American Dream in relative economic safety . Yet the liberal elite - and verily they are an elite group - don't think of themselves as ...
... Meanwhile , we have what my people see as the " liberal elite , " the people still living the American Dream in relative economic safety . Yet the liberal elite - and verily they are an elite group - don't think of themselves as ...
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... Meanwhile , the working class is left entirely dependent on the Social Security program , which eventually will be slashed and privatized by some backdoor method by the ownership class in order to boost ( in a wonderfully self - serving ...
... Meanwhile , the working class is left entirely dependent on the Social Security program , which eventually will be slashed and privatized by some backdoor method by the ownership class in order to boost ( in a wonderfully self - serving ...
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