Failures with Greed

My family has been in this country since it was founded, but none us has become rich or famous. I grew up working class. In general the white working class gives its loyalty to kith and kin rather than to ideological insights, which is one reason the white working class can disappoint labor leaders, middle class progressives and abolitionists. 

I have never seen a live crowd that supports the blubber I call Agent Orange (our President, who finished second in the election, good enough to win). I have seen the supporters of Agent Orange on television, whooping with mad delight as the blubbering mound encourages them to hate Muslims or Mexicans or Africans or molested girls and women or any legal immigrant not from Northern Europe. 

It’s not easy to describe these gents. Norman Mailer may have done it years ago when he described certain supporters of the war we lost in Vietnam. Basically they are people like me who have not become rich or famous. Some think of themselves (unfortunately) as losers, left only with “hate, dull hate, cloud banks of hate, the hatred of failures who had not lost their greed”  (from THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT).