Why is it considered radical that we should significantly invest in the needs of the working class?

[Uncle Joe]

Link to tweet

[Lovie777]

1. K & R . . .

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. The top 1 percenters think

If working class people have money,time to think and aren't in poverty they'll start asking for stuff like worker's rights,clean air,raises and social justice,the 1 percenters see that as a threat to thier imagined hierarchical order.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. They think only the wealthy have the right to govern.

Like James Madison and some other founders.

Which makes it easier to understand their continued undermining of democracy too.

https://chomsky.info/commongood02/
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Aristotle also made the point that if you have, in a perfect democracy, a small number of very rich people and a large number of very poor people, the poor will use their democratic rights to take property away from the rich. Aristotle regarded that as unjust, and proposed two possible solutions: reducing poverty (which is what he recommended) or reducing democracy.

James Madison, who was no fool, noted the same problem, but unlike Aristotle, he aimed to reduce democracy rather than poverty. He believed that the primary goal of government is "to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority." As his colleague John Jay was fond of putting it, "The people who own the country ought to govern it."
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Pretty much the major, but often unspoken, struggle between Democrats and Republicans even today.

[TheRealNorth]

3. Because 40 years of worshipping Ronald Reagan...

Have bamboozled people into thinking taxing the rich is "stealing" from them.

[BeckyDem]

6. +1. Yep

[Uncle Joe]

9. I agree most with the first reply on the tweet.

"It’s radical because billionaires have spent a lot of money to tell people it’s radical."

[Midnight Writer]

4. I just took a walk today through the "poor side of town". Trump signs and flags everywhere.

[XanaDUer2]

11. the worst vehicles I saw upstate here in NC

had Trump shit on them

[greenjar_01]

5. What's a "working class?"

[Skittles]

20. generally it means people who have to work for a living

you know, they don't have trust funds, for example

[greenjar_01]

24. So, like a corporate lawyer?

A Hollywood producer?

The woman in the toll booth at the Chicago Skyway?

Kid at the deli in the Bronx?

Congressional staffer?

I mean, almost everybody has to work for a living, no? It's not 1851.

[Skittles]

26. no....and google is your friend

Working class is a socioeconomic term describing persons in a social class marked by jobs that provide low pay and require limited skill. ... Today, most working-class jobs are found in the services sector and include clerical, retail sales, and low-skill manual labor vocations.

[greenjar_01]

28. I know what working class is supposed to mean

It's a meaningless term today. Class composition is a mater of supreme importance, but the current state of theory and practice on it, especially in Democratic politics, is a fucking joke, as this exchange amply demonstrates. You send me to Google because the imagined understanding is thin as fuck and collapses under the slightest interrogation. Jesus, the Italian autonomists understood this in the 1960's but we're still pretending.

[Skittles]

29. jeez

you really need to calm down, and perhaps you could pony up a few bucks for DU while you participate; over and OUT

[greenjar_01]

30. Cogent

Like I said, a joke.

[Uncle Joe]

31. I believe most every American, that's the strength of the program. n/t

[brooklynite]

8. How are those days going to end?

It appears that the strategy is limited to tweets.

[questionseverything]

10. Bernie's committee just sent out legislation that totally helps the working class

Don’t worry the 1 percent will always have way more than most of us……

[brooklynite]

12. Are you under the impression that I object to having my taxes raised?

My point is, what is Bernie doing to actually get the legislation passed? Wrangling for-signers? Strong- arming Democratic votes?

[questionseverything]

13. I am under the impression you object to senator sanders

Am I mistaken?

It’s less than a week since the bill came out of committee , I assume the details of the bill are being hashed out by all democratic senators

[brooklynite]

17. Nothing against him personally...

My wife and I had a very nice dinner with him and Jane back in 2011. No objection either to his policy ideas, but I see no ability he has to implement them.

[questionseverything]

18. Do any senators have the ability to implement their policies all by themselves?

Just getting his ideas into the reconciliation bill is a huge accomplishment

I am sure he will have to fight to keep it from being watered down

I hope he stands up for improving medicare and lowering the age of availability

I could lose some of the family leave benefits, it doesn’t seem fair to me some get paid time off for medical stuff when so many of us have no medical or none we can afford to use

[brooklynite]

19. Some Senators have the ability to rally support for their policy ideas.

…and to build relationships with other Senators to help get Bills passed.

Ask yourself: why is Schumer Majority Leader and Sanders is not?

[questionseverything]

23. Sanders brings forth ideas, we the people, support

Wether other democratic senators want to support popular legislation is really on them

Besides manchin wanting to protect fossil fuels which other senators are not supporting the reconciliation bill?

I thought it had pretty wide support

Schumer is more of a politician while I see Bernie as a public servant, which would account for schumer being leader

It isn’t a contest, they are suppose to be on the same side

[BeckyDem]

25. +1

[librechik]

14. racism, sexism, and stupidity.

[Uncle Joe]

15. librechik, I believe you won the Internet today

[FakeNoose]

21. If it weren't for the American working class

... the one-per-centers would all be DEAD BROKE.

Let that sink in, and let us make sure the Repukes never win another election.

[leftstreet]

22. Because most people don't think they're working class

They believe they're middle class - which is apparently somewhere between owning a yacht or holding up a will-work-for-food sign

[malaise]

27. Because the global model is all about the oligarchs

We are disposable peons