Sorry to hear that I am a survivor of torture and abuse. I do have to ask though, did you witness this or are you listening to a story told to you about the abuse?

That makes me so sad that your father did that! I'm sorry for the pain that you and your mother had.

+Remona Stormborn Excellent, and good for you.

This is why I'm glad being a teacher. Any free time I have with my 7th grade kids, I use it to make them see the world which is 'wider' than they think. They always feel overwhelmed whenever they learn about reality they didn't know about and they now probably have a little bit of a wider world view than their peers from other classes. :D

Bless you and hope the best for you.

Remona, as a former teacher, I've worked with many children who have had similar experiences. I'm glad your teacher was there for you and laid a foundation stone for you to stand on. God bless you.

@N Mil "there was nobody to even talk to about these things. " I think that's the key to solving the problems of generational poverty. We need programs in place at many points: schools, medical providers, juvenile justice system, community programs where mentors work to help low-income and other disadvantaged youth to learn, grow, and gain skills to help them improve their lives.

What I liked about her was that she was able to confront her own part in how her daughter turned out. No one can ever turn anything around until they are willing to take a long, hard, cold look in the mirror.

Truth 🔹

He should not have said what he has said during the political campaign to be a senator, though.

Life is not fair, but your family got you through this!

Yet you sabotage yourselves, into believing in an ideological set of beliefs that truly will never bring you the so called "american dream"...he was lucky in being an exception...but most will never make it...

Go for it! Take this opportunity and run with it.

But why can't people find ways of entertaining themselves in useful and educational ways? You can't wait around for other people to give you the things you want.

People should learn to entertain themselves constructively, but with people under 18 society should make an effort to motivate them b/c young people aren’t known for making the best choices when left to their own devices.

@@ajs41 this is woefully missing the point. Put simply if there are 10000 working age adults in an area and only 3000 jobs (with similar numbers in any reasonably distanced surrounding community) what do you think is going to happen to the 7000 ppl without jobs and what do you think happens to their kids.

we live in a society

All of America is in deep chronic trouble , Coming from an American born and raised ( My home state of California - USA )

Greetings from Ohio!

As an American living in Europe, I discovered that.

One of the things most Europeans forget is that the United States is a very large country, it’s very diverse both racially and class wise.

Philipp Meier, I once (when I learned all this) had the exact same reaction. In Europe there are sure a lot of poor people or very modest people with low incomes, but that fact doesn't automatically mean that those people have broken structures and broken values in their homes, as it does here. I worked with a black guy once, he was a great guy and a friend, outside of work as well. He said: "My mama always told me you don't have to be rich to be decent." And that has stuck with me for years.

Good for you

I have often said God sent me kids to raise me. Thanks for proving that becoming a mother raises us up. Becoming a parent, and/or being in a good marriage goes a long way toward raising you up.

He wasn't running for Senator at this time.

@@DaDARKPass Very true, pretty crazy how needing to be elected turns these people into something unrecognizable.

He's a crypto fascist. Always has been

@@AndyKunkelhe was clearly very different at the time of recording

Greenkrieg Honestly that's the last thing I need to hear. I hope you're fucking wrong. I'll make it no matter what.

You make it?

Perhaps he was “lucky” because people who helped him recognized how hard he was working.

A lot of luck is based on being receptive when people try to help. As a teacher, I've know so many kids who couldn't accept help. The ones that make me want to cry are the really, really bright kids, who seem to be so invested in their own smartness that they won't learn from anyone else. So much tragedy out there. I wish people could see how much worse this has gotten since Reagan. He did so much harm to this country. Killed the middle class. Tragic.

I am excited in reading it, even though i am not an american

@@hisham-ju2wt Thank you. Please pass it around when your done. It describes the real American life, not what appears on tv and movies.

@@hisham-ju2wt I wish more Europeans would read it, poor white Americans have their own societal problems too.

I didn't like the movie

@@johnrodgers2018 yes.

Where do the opioids come from and who took our manufacturing jobs? CHINA ! Who facilitated it ? Our ruling class, “Ship of Fools”

I often feel if we could get past the political tribalism we would realize how much shared commonality we all have, whether it be city or rural. Things have become toxic and there is a lot of finger pointing by people that have far more in common than otherwise. The focus is all on the differences sadly.

Yes.

I had the trauma at home, but escaped to church, and a Catholic school placed in our working class neighborhood.

if y'all ever read his book church was also a major factor for him! while religion isnt for all it does save many- im glad it worked for you!!

Jesus is coming back very soon, repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand. Read John 3:16-19 Romans 10:9-13 Whosoever believes and puts all their faith in Jesus will not perish but have everlasting life. Those who endure to the end the same will be saved

How does this explain how trump won?

@@thejurassicchicken1445 cuz the majority of the American population is working class whit people and that’s the demographic trump focused on in 2016 and that’s the section his opposition demonized

@@thejurassicchicken1445 it explains it because working class whites have felt screwed over for years. And they have been screwed over. Lack of opportunity and diminishing communities that are based on dying industries. Trump saw that and took advantage of these people. He lied and manipulated them because he’s a mean and evil SOB. Then you have the alternative candidate who basically said if you’re white then you don’t know real struggle.

Who was gone?

This is a good reminder that a country needs to not hollow out its industrial base without a plan on how to handle those 50 million ppl whose communities are about to turn into ghettos from the money drain taking place. It's a good reminder of how civil unrest starts and how drug epidemics and crime epidemics start

I too wish I new this 40 years ago, so many hard lives are lived but we can mentor and help young ones now and we can fight for a change in the system...spread this video far and wide.

however, no data was presented, no real presentation (visually), and its hard to put this talk onto one of their keystones Technology, Entertainment, Design. Its a nice story, good wisdom - but not one of the best TED talks ever, dont be silly.

Random Schmid Look at the election result and you will find your data.

scorpioninpink Rekt

No one is demonizing him it’s really just conservatives who are creating fake enemies

Same here-Dayton

Me too. I listened to the audio book. Tried to watch the movie. But had to stop. My grandfather worked in Middletown at Fischer Body. Died from COPD. The drug abuse was not there. But the chaos was.

Well he's in that place now

you can finish and will finish

John Smith At least you were in College. That sounds like a fucking dream to me.

Don’t ever give up it will pay off ! I know!

@earth ocean Nothing in this life is easy. Tough all around. Put your boots on and get to work, brother !! If you wont take care of yourself no one will !!

@earth ocean I am sorry to hear that, it seems people many times are sold on a dream of education being the key to life. In reality, there and many areas of higher degrees that get you shackled as you said. Have seen friends get huge student loan debt with psych, history, hospital management degrees for instance that don’t get you anywhere in life. Then you need to move on and get a masters or doctorate, but they won’t pay the debt either... And think how much universities and colleges are getting out of this.

Very sad. I actually was fortunate to grow up in an upscale east coast town but will likely live long-term in the Midwest or South where people have more wholesome values and a better sense of reality.

And citizens in non-swing states

I would think, that understanding the issue of your family in regards to whether you should have children of your own... Is actually a VERY good step towards not "Passing it along" and making the different decisions necessary to raise a better generation :)

It IS a good start but a good start only. I have seen friends raise children and just by their curious, don't know what they don't know nature, are at you every day. Self-awareness is good but one needs their emotional stuff together to deal with kids.

Right. If you weren't brought up with empathetic parents who can show emotion and give encouragement as well as discipline, you're crippled for life. People need training--and licensing--to breed.

I don't know about crippled for life, but they'd probably have something to work on. We all have something we need to work on.

@Epiphany Well, that was not the point i was making, but ok.

Kusakabe Kakugo As for me, I am a Canadian who studied in the USA (where I was converted to Christ in 1982). Here it is easy to obtain coverage of US news. I also had a hobby of studying history, so during the 2016 campaign I noticed what I thought were parallels between Trump and General Boulanger. THe latter played a dominant role in French politics, challenging the status quo and developing a 'cult of personality'. Boulanger's appeal ranged across the spectrum, from conservative Royalists to working-class opponents of the liberal 'bourgeois' order. Trump's combination of xenophobic nationalism and 'class collaboration' seems to parallel that of the 'Jaunes' (yellow socialists) prior to ww1. I thought that Trump deserved a chance to prove himself as a benefactor to the working classes, but I suspect that he failed in the long run because of his alliance with traditional Republicans and his own weakness of moral character. He and the Republicans basically sold their souls to one another. Sooner or later is has to be admitted that Trump is a racist. One can't ignore forever what comes out of a person's mouth. Besides, he is not well.

Heading out to get it today

Govt is never the answer, it's the problem. Answers start with you and your home and your church.

@@BitsyBee Seems like u assume that people of different cultures worldwide r homogeneous in feeling and thinking like u, and u assume that everyone starts off in life on roughly if not entirely the same footing. However, the realities are that people in many countries want a government which protects their interests, and some people r born in too underprivileged conditions which do not allow them the capacity to as u put it, find answers only in themselves, their homes and their church. Therefore, some forms of government intervention are required to deliver common benefits, such as provision of basic health services, national defense, curbing corporate greed, etc.

Twisted Humor Is that true? Perhaps you have the experience to say so. If I had anything to do with upper-class folks on very rare occasions, I did my thing and there was no reason for them to be interested in my background. But for the record, lower-middle-class folks have produced our share of tyrants as well. It's alright to be mobile in both directions, downward as well as upward. The apostle Paul said late in life that he had learned to be content in all circumstances. He had interviews with kings; he had also been treated as a common criminal. I find that example both inspiring and awe-inspiring.

Dj Nichols, you're confusing reason and justification here. I absolutely think that it's every person's own responsibility to make good decisions but there's a larger problem here than personal accountability: the system that makes preconditions so much more adverse to some than to others.

I find it interesting that he's literally talking about people like you in this video. People that have no education to social issues outside of their own tiny hometown blaming minority communities for all their problems rather than looking towards the greater, larger social structure that affects every minority community in the US, and especially POOR PEOPLE which happen to encompass literally all racial groups your dog-whistle racism "thug", "inner city" narrative has. Poor white people blame black and brown people for their issues, grow up and repeat and teach that racism to their kids. Race was literally invented by the wealthy in order to get white poor people to join with them in divinding the lower classes further by arbitrary cultural and racial lines and they bought into it instead of seeing what it was---a way to keep the power and wealth concentrated to a lucky few. Instead of being racist, open your eyes to how you're buying into the wealthy elite's brainwashing and join WITH People of Color to stop the system from hurting everyone. Only then will we ever escape crushing generations-long poverty and struggle. You were taught that "thugs are violent" and never bothered to question if that was true or not, you just accepted it because that's all you ever heard. But instead of looking into how that's just making you a pawn in their game, you swallow and repeat the lie, and now instead of poor whites joining with poor POC we have poor whites joining in with the powerful to marginalize POC and you don't even care if you're complicit in continued human suffering? If you had any sense of compassion or empathy for your fellow man you'd look into whether or not the narrative you were force-fed your whole life was true or not.

Megan Rivera Race was not invented by the rich. Your Marxist analysis is preached as the gospel and just as true. There is more to life than class conflict and that's why Marx was a moron. If the socialist revolution is going to save us all, why is Venezuela poor and starving and Chavez's daughter so rich and plump? How 'bout that income inequality in China? You just keep voting to make the rich "pay their fair share" and the rich will just keep buying power in that same system. The only way we're truly going to be free is by dismantling the state. When the state is gone, the only thing that is going to keep us from killing each other are clearly defined borders that separate like-minded, culturally similar, mono-ethnic groups.

FortuitusVideo Listen to yourself! Do you really believe the words coming out of your mouth? Social revolution takes the cooperation of multiple groups to be successful, that is why people are still struggling. I didn't say class struggle was the ONLY struggle. Obviously misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and racism are still major issues that deeply negatively affect billions. What I am saying is that as long as you buy into justifications for not joining said social revolution, the revolution will continue to be put off. When you're more in love with your racism than you are escaping your present social oppression you're agreeing to and complicit with your own marginalization. If you want to buy into that, fine. But I think it's really interesting that you came to a video about people like you and didn't even understand he was talking about YOU. Your family will continue to be held back by poverty until you shed the cultural brainwashing of blaming POC for all your problems.

Megan Rivera This is the problem with Marx. He was long on complaints but short on answers. The revolution would come and then all would be well. If it wasn't? Well it wasn't a true revolution! This is why there will never be an end to the struggle. Marx relied heavily on Hegel's World Spirit which is even less substantial then it sounds. J.D. Vance is not about class oppression. He's about the specifics of Hillbilly culture that perpetuate their collapse. He's not calling for a class struggle. He's calling for the hillbillies themselves to change. More Charles Murray than Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw.

It's mainly a class thing.

It’s mainly a class thing but the added negative of being a minority on TOP of the class issues makes it even harder to find that help filling in that social capital gap he talks about. There’s tons of white working class ppl that think they have it even harder than minorities because of things like affirmative action. Notice how did once mention how these same problems he experienced. Can be seen in urban America by minorities

@@domwilson2505 that’s because the minorities always vote the same way. There is less sympathy for communities that are not persuadable politically. Try voting in a real way for the other guys and see how they respond to you.

M A where did you see me say I agree with affirmative action? It’s a terrible strategy for reducing the wealth gap. I absolutely think if it’s gonna be there it should be income based. But it’s not a racist policy. That’s not what racism means. Prejudice? Sure kinda. But let’s not misuse the word racism

Son of Yoda they vote the same way because both parties suck but at least one is willing to do bare minimum, even if it usually does end up helping the rich stay rich. Both sides help the rich get rich rn. At least Some Dems like Bernie of Yang are talking about actually effective ways to help lower income ppl out. Republicans answer is “free market” to everything. There’s No point in voting for them. But both sides do suck generally. I’m not a big fans of Dems in the least.

Crack and cocaine are the same thing...

Not here. Their uses, effects and prices are different but I confess not to know their composition or intensity. Just that I almost lost my only older brother. That I know.

Carlos Roberto I'm sorry for you and your brother.

Don't fool yourself. There has never been a true free market and there never will be. Unless the working class insists on getting the basics, it won't happen. It's too bad so many failed to see that Trump is a con man only in it for Trump. Bernie understands. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/a6J0Z3yhiZCrpoE.html

DJ Vance is a pussie!! 🤣 I Love kari Lake she has my vote!! Pro freedom pro choice!! 🇺🇸

Poor guy looks like he needs a box of tampons. 🤣

Hello, born and raised in Steubenville. So true.

can't agree more with you

I think, that in the future historians won't be surprised at all by the surprising things that are happening today. It feels like it was only a matter of time before an election cycle like this would happen.

trump is just an actor/manipulator. he lost to hillary, that is how bad he is. because hillary is really really bad

liyev funny how trump won after all these comments

the fact that they both were the nominees proves the underlying point of the geographical and cultural divide JD Vance talks of.

I have a question wat r 2 ways the language used by the speaker expresses an idea about class that is particularly powerful, persuasive or bueatiful

Lol who is to say you will encounter ba benevolent stranger and not just someone who would take advantage of a naive kid? The answer needs to this needs to be a little bit more substantive than just relying on the goodwill of randoms. We need to restructure our society.

@@scroopynooperz9051 I hope a little more evenly, not so much difference between very wealthy and very poor. They need better schools to get a better education to get out of that poverty. There will always be poor, but do they have to be that gastly poor?