Blue-collar Elitism

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. I doubt that many working class poor voted for Trump unless they're also evangelical.

Most of the vulnerable people economically -- single, low income -- voted for Clinton.

I worked my way through college to double-major in math and physics, working at some very low-paying and unpleasant (non-union) factories to do it.

I always went through a brief culture shock each time that I went back to school, seeing many people who I considered soft and spoiled. I've declined jobs, post-graduation, that would've been easier for me. I've received management promotion offers in the past and turned them down. The idea of working inside an air-conditioned office while most of the real work was being done on the floor, by people getting paid far less, troubled me. I'm an idiot for not being more callous, I guess.

Liberal elitists are still better than conservatives even if they never got a little dirt under their nails. At least most of them tend to be more compassionate.

EDIT: It would have been much easier to accept an easier life if I didn't have to SEE other people toiling hard for little reward. I don't like inequality, so it's not easy to choose a path for myself where I know that I'm unfairly getting more than others around me. People in third world countries who work hard and barely scrape by? At least I don't see them day-to-day.