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In reply to the discussion: Facing intense internal pressure, DNC releases postelection autopsy that criticizes Kamala Harris [View all]bigtree
(94,688 posts)...that's not a credible interpretation of his quote.
For every blue-collar Democrat we will lose in western P.A., we will pick up two, three moderate Republicans in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin, he said.
He was making an inartful point about how predicted the race would go. It didn't drive anything but his critics and media hacks writing underneath clickbait titles.
And ANYONE claiming republicans have ever given blue collar workers more than lip service is just lying, and doesn't deserve to be mollycoddled because they chose a wealthy criminal and a party that does nothing but enrich themselves and their CEOs over a party that doesn't little else but represent the people.
Of course, I don't expect anyone who thinks this is a credible attack on Schumer to bother to mention the reams of other words he's used over his decades long career in Congress in actual support of legislative efforts that support working class people in this country.
Anyone who claims the party doesn't is just lying. That's not Schumer's fault that some people choose, anyway, to believe pure bullshit about him and the party.
Democrats have always worked to support the working class, while republicans just talk about it as they undermine them with EVERY vote they take on behalf of their wealthy benefactors instead of working Americans.
It's just mindnumbingly misleading and false to claim he believes or said "we don't need blue-collar workers." It's just sickening to twist what he said just to oppose him. It's just denigrating of Democrats, not to mention his entire career standing up for working people.
I really don't expect, though, that people who make broadsides at Schumer or the party to bother to look to see what his actual advocacy has been, instead of misleading lies like this old, tired claim people other than you have made, encouraging others to adopt this sophistry.
To what end? That people who engage with this lie believe Democrats don't support the working class? Why bend this out of context? It makes no sense at all to me for anyone in the Democratic party to engage in self-destructive sophistry like this.
To what end?