‘Deplorables’ weary of being ignored

When Hillary Clinton talked about the people in the “basket of deplorables,” I thought she was talking about my basket.

In this basket, there is a lot to see. There are all kinds of people in there. There are yellow people, brown people, red people, black people, and white people.

The people I see in my basket are the farmers and food processors who contribute to feeding not only this nation but much of the world; there are the carpenters, trades people, skilled and unskilled who build our homes and maintain our roads. There are the factory workers who manufacture the cars that take us about our daily lives, they are the school teachers who teach our children the police who keep us safe.

There are a lot of people in this basket. Most of them have worked hard all of there lives, they have sacrificed for their families and their cause, and they have the calluses and scars to show for it.

These are the people who have never complained much. They are the silent ones, the ones who aren’t always “politically correct.” They are the ones we have heard little from over the past several generations. They are the ones who are being squeezed out of the middle from both the top and bottom.

Now they are getting tired of not being heard or recognized; they want some say in their lives. They want the America the way it was meant to be. The country that was respected by the rest of the world. A country with great leaders and the best educated citizens who don’t mind a little hard work. They want to make America great again.

What is in your basket?

This story was originally published September 25, 2016 at 4:08 PM with the headline "‘Deplorables’ weary of being ignored."