Democrats need to address the "Working Class" problem and get over the "Isms"

[Hellbound Hellhound]

Yes, I know, I know, "ism" and "ist" and "ic" and all other manner of identity scapegoats, but the latest election has enshrined a very clear and very obvious political divide: People don't give a single shit about anything other than their pocketbooks. Poor people are sick and tired of being told "You're not poor, you're perfectly fine, better than you've ever been! Just look at the stock market!" Most Americans have little if anything to do with Wall Street.

Of course, you'll get the obvious reactionaries of "Racism!" "Sexism!" "Transphobic!" but at the end of the day, none of that mattered; The price of eggs mattered. Because people vote their wallets, as they have since the inception of America: See the Tea Party. That may upset the Identitypheliacs, but that's the truth. It's an uncomfortable truth, but the simple fact is that those who center their entire political philosophy around "Social identity" are financially comfortable enough not to worry about the practical economy. It's a simple matter of Mazlow's Hierarchy.

These overly-comfortable people are willing to say "But the economy is perfect!" while people starve. They will flat out say to the poverty stricken, to their faces, "You poor people are wrong, the GDP is the best its ever been, you're not starving!" They're not lying but they're omitting objective truths.

We need to stop this incessant "You're just stupid because you're poor, racist, sexist fuckwits" drumbeat and begin to address problems faced by real, tangible Americans or we run the risk of losing the largest voting bloc, the working class (Black, white and Latino) for decades.


Quit the cannibalizing. Quit the victim blaming and infighting. We need to start listening to the largest part of America; Minimum wage workers, of all skin colors.

All of us need to better and to give up on our faux elitism.

(I'm fairly certain this post will be hidden, but it has to be said, no matter how few genuine Democrats see it before it gets blapped. On the off chance it doesn't, let's start winning election and speak to the people crying out for help.)


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