I’m a White Dude for Harris, a “cuck,” per Donald Trump Jr., and I’m also “childless,” in the framing of JD Vance, the guy who Don Jr. sold Don Sr. on being a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Keeping score, then, in addition to being a “cuck,” quoting Don Jr., I’m “evil,” not to mention “psychotic,” and also a “sociopath,” quoting Vance, expanding on the “childless” observation of his.
To top it all, Vance says, going on further about the “childless” thing, I’m “miserable and unhappy,” because “kids are the ultimate way that we find self-meaning in life,” and, well, I mean, fact is, I don’t have any.
I’d slink off into the corner and cry myself to sleep at all of these names being hurled at me, except that, well, I’m far from being the only white dude that they’re trying to run down.
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According to one 2023 survey, 40.5 percent of adult American men don’t have children, and another 2023 survey tells us that most dudes who don’t have kids just don’t want them.
I ran some quick math based on the above numbers, and my best estimate is that around 25 million white dudes are like me – don’t have kids, don’t want them, and they’re perfectly OK with that.
I’d just be guessing the politics of that group, though we know that white males, as a whole, went 60 percent-plus for Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2020, so I’d expect the white childless dudes to at least be close to 50-50 politically.
On the first thing, Don Jr. calling the white dudes backing Kamala Harris “cucks, I get that one; Don Jr. is a white dude himself, and white dudes like to call other white dudes names, and “cuck” is the white dude insult of the moment.
I mean, me, I know that, when I see a MAGA white dude, immediately I think, “cuck” – since the MAGA white dudes that I see aren’t the ones getting the Trump rich-people tax cut, and they’re the ones who are going to feel it when Trump and his Republican sycophants have to cut Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, you know, those socialist programs, to keep the country from going flat-broke from the rich-people tax cuts.
Voting for people who tell you ahead of time not only that they’re not going to do anything to help you, but they’re also going to actively make your life more difficult, is the living definition of sitting back and enjoying seeing another dude pleasure your wife right there; but hey, as I said, us white dudes like to name-call each other, so, no harm, no foul.
Vance going after people in general, the “childless cat ladies” on the one side, and the dudes who don’t have kids and don’t want them on the other, is more politically perilous.
We already pay more in taxes than dudes who have kids, since we don’t get the kids-related tax breaks, and most of us don’t complain that we don’t get anything back from the $900 billion that local, state and federal government spends on K-12 education every year.
In my case, I’m glad to pay taxes so your kids can get a decent education, same as I’m happy to pay extra so that they have access to quality healthcare, clean water, clean air, that they’re kept safe from child predators.
Which is to say, Vance is just plain wrong that people like me with no kids and no desire to have them don’t have a stake in the future.
For one thing, I still have a future, at least I hope I do – I’m 52, and I’m not planning on going anywhere anytime soon, if you know what I mean.
What I’m saying here is, my interest in your kids being healthy and educated is as much about making things better for me, too – the healthier they are, the happier they are; and the happier and better educated they are, the more productive they are,; and that makes the world a better place for me, because more productive people make for a better economy, which helps my bottom line.
And if I get to live another 20, 30, 40, 50 years, whatever is left for me, I want it to be as good for everybody as it can be, because if things are good for everybody, they’re good for me, too.
Part of me wants to be happy for JD Vance that he found “self-meaning in life” after becoming a father.
For me and millions of dudes like me, we’ve been able to find our self-meaning without kids, and he should be happy for us that we’ve been able to do that.
I don’t get why he just assumes that we’re all “miserable and unhappy,” except that maybe he was “miserable and unhappy” before he became a dad, and frankly, he still comes across to me as a singularly “miserable and unhappy” person, the way he lashes out at everybody at the slightest provocation.
I know this much: him lashing out at dudes without kids is going to cost him politically, because, just speaking here as a white dude, as much as I know that white dudes like to call other white dudes names, as I said above, one thing that I’m for damn sure white dudes don’t like is when other white dudes call them names.
Put that on top of Don Jr., who looks to me to be a little too small to go around calling people names, and I think you’re going to see some movement in the white dude demographic, and in a close election, who knows, this could be a factor.
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Chris Graham
