I'm going to use some really vile language, you may want to pass on by

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2. I was shocked at the classism when I first started

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talking with Americans online. The classism was amongst the right wingers. My name was Taylor girl online (at another forum) and one nasty Republican tried to get at me by calling me trailer girl. I said all the people I had known who live in trailers were good eggs because they were. He couldn't believe I wasn't offended. Being Canadian I was not familiar with that type of classism. We Canadians were/are not perfect: racism, sexism, anti French and indigenous hate still exists.

My parents used to go to Naples to visit some friends when Bill Clinton was President. The friends of my parents' friends were a mixed bunch, some Republicans. My Dad was amazed at how often they called Bill Clinton and 'cracker'. "He's a cracker this" and "he's a cracker that". So much so he found himself saying the things he admired about Bill Clinton out loud to test their reaction. He almost could not believe the classism. They were like parrots and these were wealthy people "Polly thinks Clinton is a cracker!!".

Painting everyone with a broad brush is not the Democratic way and it only serves to tribalize the US more which is what MAGA, and the right wing Republicans in charge, want and need. I doubt very much that everyone called white trash is of bad character. Bad people are bad characters. You have to get to know them first.

Yes many ICE are creepy and scary and bad people. I'm sure many of them were brought up in middle class households. Better off people can be assaulters and human/citizen/undocumented rights abusers too, and much worse.