Angry White Man

[SuBe]

In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man

Angry White Man
Gary Hubbell
February 9, 2008


[/COLOR]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 Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.

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 India for tech support, he simmers. When Al Sharpton comes on TV, leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense, he bites his tongue and he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement.

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.

Gary Hubbell is a regular columnist with the Aspen Times Weekly.

I would have prefered this to be called the Angry American. But, I like it none the less.

 

[YsoSerious]

The angry white man elected George Bush, let's hope the angry white man is a minority in this next election.

 

[rdh007]

The angry white man elected George Bush, let's hope the angry white man is a minority in this next election.

Amen.

Oh, and Gary Hubbell apparently sucks.

 

[StorminNorman]

Amen.

Oh, and Gary Hubbell apparently sucks.

Aspen Times Weekly is an amazing piece of journalism.

Though is point is not invalid. He identifies a base that really is out there.

 

[SuBe]

Though is point is not invalid. He identifies a base that really is out there.

Don't you know StorminNorman: White Males don't deserve a voice anymore, apparently.

 

[rdh007]

I won't deny that that group is out there.

You're almost right Sue-Bee, white males deserve less a voice than we've had.

Hubbell still sucks.

 

[Steve Rogers]

Yeah, the Angry White Man factor scares the hell outta me. Four more years under a war happy republican just because the opposition is either a woman or a black man? Yeah, I've thought that there might be plenty of people in middle America not ready to vote for anyone other than a white man.

 

[rdh007]

Yeah, the Angry White Man factor scares the hell outta me. Four more years under a war happy republican just because the opposition is either a woman or a black man? Yeah, I've thought that there might be plenty of people in middle America not ready to vote for anyone other than a white man.

I've thought that, too. But then I realized that I'm in middle America and there must be more like me out there. [Iamlegend]Right?[/Iamlegend]

 

[Steve Rogers]

I've thought that, too. But then I realized that I'm in middle America and there must be more like me out there. [Iamlegend]Right?[/Iamlegend]

Of course, but HOW many people like you are out there? I mean, if we look at how well Obama and Hillary have done (and that the white male candidates have dropped out) I'd be willing to bet that most people don't care about race or gender. The true test will come against McCain.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

The angry american white man...is dumb...and he now thinks that voting for Bush was the worst mistake of his life.

 

[Arc-Light]

I would have prefered this to be called the Angry American. But, I like it none the less.

The real reason they are angry, because there is a very good chance there won't be a white man in the White House this November......

 

[The Senator]

The angry american white man...is dumb...

Or... he's angry

 

[LuiECuomo]

Four more years under a war happy republican just because the opposition is either a woman or a black man?

...Or just because the opposition is either an idiot or an idiot?

 

[Addendum]

I may be white, but I'm a rational thinking man. The rant of the angry white man sounds like a *****e

 

[terry78]

LOL, that was an interesting read.

 

[bell110]

That was pretty cool. And I agree that all those point aren't just white male exclusive. It should have been called angry American. I don't like how it turned into a anti-Hillary rant at the end, although I agree with why people don't like her. It should have been left as a piece about how the average American is looked over.

 

[SuBe]

That was pretty cool. And I agree that all those point aren't just white male exclusive. It should have been called angry American. I don't like how it turned into a anti-Hillary rant at the end, although I agree with why people don't like her. It should have been left as a piece about how the average American is looked over.

Agreed. That is exactly how a lot of Americans feel. It shouldn't have been a Race thing, just an American thing.

 

[terry78]

Agreed. That is exactly how a lot of Americans feel. It shouldn't have been a Race thing, just an American thing.

Though the rest of the Americans that aren't white men are exactly the people they're pissed at.

 

[bell110]

No, it's not just non-white Americans. I think some people missed the point with that article. They are "angry" at evangelicals also, as well as non-Americans who can barely speak english and getting jobs that could go to Americans. As well as walking stereotypes. I think all Americans can get behind most of those points as being irritating.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I like being an angry white man

 

[SuBe]

No, it's not just non-white Americans. I think some people missed the point with that article. They are "angry" at evangelicals also, as well as non-Americans who can barely speak english and getting jobs that could go to Americans. As well as walking stereotypes. I think all Americans can get behind most of those points as being irritating.

 

[SuBe]

I like being an angry white man

Huh, I always though you were a chick.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Huh, I always though you were a chick.

I'm the guy in the background jerkhole

 

[SuBe]

I'm the guy in the background jerkhole

Then what you are doing with that knife isn't very nice... tsk, tsk.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Then what you are doing with that knife isn't very nice... tsk, tsk.

Because I'm an angry white man