Editor’s
note: The following is adapted from Wayne Allyn Root’s new book, Angry
White Male
The destruction, the annihilation, the
conspiracy to destroy the middle class is real. The murder of the middle class
is not a theory. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a figment of my imagination.
It’s a proven fact. Three studies were published backing up what I’m
saying. Sometimes, timing isn’t important—it’s everything.
Study
1: Pew Research Proves Death of
Middle Class
A definitive
study was released by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Yes,
Pew is the same research group mentioned earlier who studied and identified the
dominant percentage of whites versus minorities among the middle class.
Pew’s latest research reports that between 1999 and 2014 more than four-fifths
of America’s metro areas have experienced income declines. Pew’s figures reveal
a steady erosion of America’s middle class.
The
steepest declines were seen in industrial towns. It is no coincidence that
these job and income losses came from the predominantly white working and
middle class. But the trend isn’t just seen in the Midwest or among
working class, blue-collar whites. The same trend and the same declines can be
found among college-educated white-collar Americans. Pew Research found that
even in areas of high-tech reinvention such as Austin, Texas, and Raleigh,
North Carolina, incomes are falling and the middle class is shrinking.
Pew
found that even in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado, where over six hundred
thousand new residents have arrived since 2000, heavily weighted toward college
degrees, median household income (adjusted for inflation) fell from $83,000 in
1999 to under $76,000 in 2014.
This clearly shows the murder of the middle
class. The rich are getting richer, while the poor are taken care of by the
government and paid for by middle-class taxpayers. The savaged middle class is
being taxed and regulated so heavily to pay for the poor that eventually there
will be no more middle-class jobs, no more middle-class families. Our incomes
are down, our jobs are disappearing, our bills are escalating, our health care
costs are exploding (thanks to Obamacare), and our taxes are dramatically
higher. For America’s middle class, this is a disaster of epic proportions.
So
now you know why we’re angry. We have every reason to be angry. We’ve
been targeted for extinction.
Study
2: Economic Innovation Group Proves there Are No Middle-Class Jobs
The
second study was a look at job creation in America. I’ve argued for all eight
years of the Obama presidency that his policies are destroying “Main Street.” Yes,
Wall Street has been flying, and Silicon Valley has been flying, and the
suburbs of Washington, DC are enjoying record income and home price
appreciation. But outside of those few places, the economy is D-E-A-D. There
are few business start-ups or jobs being created outside of Silicon Valley;
Manhattan; Washington, DC; Boston; and Austin. The rest of the country is
starving and barren. That’s been my argument for eight long years. Historically, the key to America’s
economic success has not been big business or high tech or government. It’s
always been small business and start-ups. And today, they are being taxed and
legislated out of business, which is why there are no new high-quality
middle-class jobs being created.
Sure
enough, a new study out by the bipartisan Economic
Innovation Group, based on data from the Census Bureau, has shown just that. The
report says exactly what I’ve been arguing for eight long years: small business
is being killed by big business. No one opens a bodega or
hardware store or health food store or clothing store anymore because they
can’t compete with big box retailers. And no one opens a manufacturing plant
because all those jobs have been shipped offshore by big business. The little
guy is dead. That means entrepreneurship, outside of a handful of well-funded
technology start-ups, is dead. That means mobility and opportunity is dead. And
that means job creation is dead because business start-ups of two hundred or
fewer employees have historically created the bulk of high-quality middle-class
jobs. And Obama’s oppressive liberal/progressive policies are responsible for killing
those start-ups.
We’re
in big trouble, folks. And guess who lives in all these vast swaths of rural
areas: middle-class white people. Outside of New York or San
Francisco or Austin or DC, middle-class white people see no future. They see no
way out of their crappy circumstances. No mobility. No opportunity to do better
than their parents. This is the murder of the predominantly white middle and
working class. And it’s the reason for angry white males. It’s also the reason
for the Donald Trump phenomenon. Read the exact conclusion of the Washington
Post story about this study:
Polling suggests it is one of the driving forces in the political
unrest among working-class Americans—particularly rural white men—who have
flocked to Republican Donald Trump’s presidential campaign this year.
Study
3: Center for Immigration Studies Proves Illegal Immigrants Are Coming to
America for the Welfare
There is a third part to Angry
White Male. First is the murder of the middle class. Second is the
death of small business and job creation. The third part is about native-born
Americans being overrun by an invasion of foreigners, in particular illegal
aliens.
While
this “murder of the middle class” is happening due to liberal policies of tax,
spend, regulate, and sue, the reality is that our wide-open borders are an even
bigger problem. America is literally being invaded, and the liberal and political
elite are not only doing nothing to stop it, they are encouraging it.
Of
course, those of us who want to stop this invasion are called racists. The
media, big business, and big government politicians (even establishment
Republicans like Jeb Bush) claim these illegals are coming here “out of love.”
Well, the facts are in. It is indeed out of love—a love of welfare and
government checks!
Immigrants, in particular illegal
immigrants, aren’t coming for a love of America’s ideals. Most are coming here
to collect welfare. And who pays for this massive transfer of wealth? Yes, the
predominantly white middle class, the working and taxpaying people of America.
The angry white male.
Not
only do illegals get tons of “free stuff,” but they take our jobs, they hold
down our wages, they overwhelm and bankrupt our schools and health care system,
and they explode the national debt. They are even assigned civil rights
lawyers. And get this one: they get “earned income tax credit” checks from the
IRS even though they are here illegally. This is madness.
To
make it worse, the guilt-ridden white liberal politicians and media lie. They
tell us it’s not happening. They say the border is fine. They say there is no problem.
They say illegals are not flowing over the border. They say immigrants are a
net positive for America. They say all this while illegals collect
record-setting government entitlements, while Obama budgets $17,000 per illegal
child—more than a life-long American-born worker gets from Social Security
after a lifetime of hard work and paying into the system. To pay for it all,
Obama cut billions from veterans to hand those same billions to illegal aliens.
But folks, there’s no problem, nothing to see, move along.
No more arguing or debating. Illegals flow
across that border for one primary reason: a love of our generous
welfare system. The proof is now in. Keep in mind these statistics were
provided by our own federal government. Illegal immigrants collect more in
welfare benefits than native-born Americans. See the facts.
We are letting people flood across the border to bankrupt our country, to
overwhelm our economic system, to create shortages and economic crises for
native-born Americans. As Donald Trump would say, “How stupid can we be?”
Where
does the money come from to pay for all this? It comes primarily from the
predominantly white middle class. Not only are these millions
of illegals taking away American jobs, they are also suppressing middle-class
wages by supplementing their low incomes with welfare benefits. To add insult
to injury, those benefits are paid for with higher taxes on the middle class,
much higher health insurance costs on the middle class, much higher property
taxes on the middle class, much higher sales taxes on the middle class, and a
much higher national debt, which will be paid back by even higher taxes on the
children and grandchildren of the American middle class.
Is
it any wonder I’m an Angry White Male?
It
is a national disgrace and disaster. But one thing it’s not is a coincidence,
bad luck, or bad timing. This is all part of a plan targeting the predominantly
white middle class. Liberals claim it is about social justice. In truth, it is
about filling the country with foreigners who are dependent on welfare from big
government, and therefore can always be counted on to reliably vote Democrat
for higher taxes, bigger welfare checks, and even bigger government.
It’s all part of a plan to create a vicious
cycle. Government taxes and regulations make it difficult to survive.
Government makes it difficult to run a business. Government makes us poorer.
Government makes us dependent. All of this means we don’t have money to make
political contributions anymore. I’ve personally cut my contributions to GOP
candidates dramatically. But we all know that in politics, money is power,
money is victory. Then to double the pain, government purposely keeps the
border wide open to invite in foreigners who want bigger government and more
welfare from cradle to grave. Government also makes it easier for them to vote
without ID. Then both legal and many illegal immigrants exercise this massive
conflict of interest by voting reliably for more welfare checks and higher
taxes. All at the expense of the dying middle class.
To
write this, to report this, isn’t racism. This is simply the truth about what
is happening to America and the pre- dominantly white middle class. It doesn’t
make any group “bad.” It’s not an attack on Hispanics. It’s not an attack on
foreigners. I’m simply reporting the facts. This is happening. This is a
purposeful plan. I don’t even blame the people who are accepting this welfare.
They are just accepting what is being offered. The blame goes to pathetic, guilt-ridden
white liberals and their cronies in the liberal media, big business, and
political establishment.
Their
goal is to fundamentally change America by overwhelming the system and changing
the ethnic demographics of the electorate away from the predominantly white
middle class. And it’s working.
This
is no mirage. This isn’t guesswork. It’s not my opinion. It’s real, it’s
happening. It’s the reason for the angry white male phenomenon. And it’s the
very foundation of the Donald Trump phenomenon. Trump leaped past the deepest
GOP field in history—sixteen governors, senators, and superstar
politicians—based on a promise to build a wall, secure the border, and enforce
immigration laws.
Now
you understand why Trump won the GOP nomination. Now you understand why angry
white males (and many others) are angry. We have every right to be. The cannons
are being aimed right at us. It’s time to fight back in self-defense.
P.S.
Long term, even more dangerous than the primarily Hispanic illegals coming to
collect free things is the government-endorsed and -aided policy of flooding
America with Muslim immigrants, legal and illegal. Unlike other immigrant
groups, relatively few Muslims have indicated any interest in accepting
American values and assimilating themselves into the great American melting
pot. As demonstrated throughout Europe, this is a group focused on establishing
separate communities with their own laws and values, biding their time until
they can impose their values on the rest of us. It even has a name. Spreading
Islam through colonization is a “jihad” (the religious duty of Muslims to
maintain and spread their religion). America is being invaded,
not by military force, but by the policies of the radical left. Their goal is
to fill this nation with foreigners who have no understanding or interest in
American exceptionalism, American values, culture, freedom, or personal
responsibility. They want white males to become foreigners in our own land
