"They need a politics that offers honest answers to their legitimate grievances and keeps them from sliding further into self-destruction." As with any commentary, the one doing the commenting often goes into the disseration with a stricture in place which chokes objectivity by attempting to force a deep and wide subject matter through a too narrow line of thought. Case in point, the insertion of "self-destruction" at the end is an obvious effort to lay blame for the demise of the stability of our culture and the decline of our economic superiority upon white middle-class Americans in spite of the overall tenor of the commentary to the contrary. --