How Liberals Left the White Working Class Behind
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Anonymous
This. The GOP researches and then says whatever will win an election. Voters are so stupid that it doesn't matter that it's all lies or at the very least hyperbole designed to work them up/tug the heartstrings/scare them and it doesn't matter that the GOP never delivers anything to the lower or middle class voters. Instead, the GOP lie and keep pushing their policies to enrich the already rich, destroy the environment for a buck, reduce regulations to protect consumers again in the name of making as much money in the short term as possible, and on and on. Their policies benefit only themselves and their rich friends, but the stupid voters keep playing along and believing the lies. The democratic party needs to match the GOP propaganda machine. Sad but true. |
Anonymous
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Interesting take on things.
Remind me again, which conservatives are proposing working class-friendly programs like Medicare for All, government subsidized college, free job retraining for workers in dying industries, creating millions of jobs in the trades by investing in renewable energy, universal basic income, progressive taxation where the rich pay their fair share, fighting pollution that causes severe health problems disproportionately in working class communities, and bringing the minimum wage up to a livable level? Also remind me which liberals are for cutting social security, cutting medicaid, and starving 700,000 families a week before Christmas by cutting off their food assistance? Because if I didn't know any better, I'd say the overwhelming evidence points to the pact the conservatives actively despise and do everything they can to screw the working class no matter what race they are. |
Anonymous
It is so strange that any Republican has the nerve to point out any wrongdoing by Dems but turns a blind eye to Trump and his full scale corruption. I am also not aware of firms being bipartisan. If I owned a company that lobbied, I would support both parties because I want to make money regardless of political popularity. |
Anonymous
Do you do your own plumbing and home repairs? |
Anonymous
My hardworking, legal Hispanic neighbors do that for Me. |
Anonymous
| Are you aware that black and latino people work too, and constitute a big chunk of the "working class" in this country? why mix race and class? |
Anonymous
do you ... think only white people are plumbers and roofers? In the DC area, tradesmen & service people are around 75% non-white, in my experience. |
Anonymous
Racist white people are the most important major voting bloc regressives have. They desperately need to make everything about race. Specifically, they need to create a narrative of the scary brown people who might have the gall to do better than you in life and the scary Democrats who have the gall to help people with a different skin color than you to prevent their racist white voting bloc from realizing that conservatives have never given a damn about them and all they do is enact policies that screw the working class in favor of the rich. If the regressives can keep racists afraid instead of informed, they keep their bread and butter. |
Anonymous
My plumber makes close to $150 an hour. He isn’t working class. |
Anonymous
+1. And the decline in manufacturing jobs in the US was not solely due to NAFTA. Automation, plus China’s entrance into the WTO, played a huge part. |
Anonymous
OR a democratic candidate may start pushing issues that support MIddle CLass!!! - support unions - work against right to work states - limit immigration both illegal and legal - to keep the wages rising, this is so common sense and so easy to do - confront wall street and mbas that have screwed the middle class - tax the rich, tax capital gains, close carried interest' loophole - confront the silicon valley monopolies, break them up or convert to public utilities. |
Anonymous
Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers, admits that he never visited Rust Belt cities devastated by NAFTA. Displaced White workers “weren’t heavily on our radar screen,” he said, noting that the Democratic Party base is a “coalition of cosmopolitan elite and diversity.” Summers’ “cosmopolitan elite” are highly educated, affluent people who travel the world, live in ethnically diverse cities, and are in constant global communication. For them, the benefits of globalization are myriad, and the downsides invisible. But for those whose idea of the good life is more slow-paced and parochial, global economic and communication networks are a threat to their livelihoods, their way of life, and their communities, which have been ravaged by foreclosures, offshoring, and automation. |
Anonymous
No one said that. The establishment on both sides doesn’t care about the working class of all races. That’s why Democrat and Republican establishment hacks will be in a frenzy if Bernie gets the nomination. All this “Trump is a fascist” talk will get muffled quick because at the end of the day Sanders is more dangerous to them because he’s attacking their bottom lines. |
Anonymous
| The GOP spin is ro laughable. As if they were ever going to do anything to help the unwealthy. |