I'm Wayne Allyn Root, author of new bestselling book "ANGRY WHITE MALE." ASK ME ANYTHING.

Everyone should be angry. If you're not angry, you're an idiot or ignorant or delusional. I'm betting most of you here in this forum are young. Your lives are crippled by student debt. You have no good jobs. You're living in your parent's basements in historic numbers. If you're not angry I feel bad for you.

I can't stomach reading this kind of thing without commenting any more.

I'm under 40. At age 17, my parents booted me out of the house and said, "Make of the world what you will." I haven't lived under their roof ever since.

Since then, I got a college education. I worked in three different research labs after graduating for peanuts - literally less than minimum wage for the hours I put in (I was required to only put down certain hours on the timesheet). I eventually got a much better research job.

In my spare time, I started a business. I used every spare hour and every spare dime of mine to fund it and get it going. It eventually became really successful. I sold it when my job started becoming more management than anything else.

When you sit around and talk about how white men should be angry because "their lives are crippled by student debt," you're playing into excuses. You're playing into a victim mentality, that some bigger enemy is to blame for your troubles.

The truth is that everyone's troubles start with themselves, period. Their trouble starts when they stop busting their ass every day to achieve something better than what they have. Their trouble starts when they start blaming Obama - or Bush or whoever the convenient scapegoat of the moment is - for their own lack of work ethic and their own negative personal choices. When you start blaming others, you excuse your own bad choices and you guarantee that your lot in life will never improve.

This is THE entire problem with the Trump campaign. It is predicated on blaming others for problems without offering any real solutions. Guess what? Banning illegal immigrants might sound good on paper, but it isn't going to get you any kind of high paying job because illegal immigrants aren't working at high paying jobs. Guess what? A tax policy that favors high income earners isn't going to create jobs, either - right now, the rich have some of the lowest tax rates in American history and they're not creating jobs! If they were, we wouldn't be having this discussions because the United States would be a job utopia!

The only solution to the problems you have in life is you. Period. It's up to you to solve them. The second you decide it isn't worth it, then you're choosing to check out. It's no one else's fault.

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