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In reply to the discussion: The Guardian nails it: White working class votes for white supremacists. Period. [View all]
rogue emissary
(3,451 posts)19. Really wish more on DU would understand this reality.
We keep seeing post about Democrats not reaching the white working class. This is the reason they're not responding. Democrats aren't offering them the prize that they truly seek from their vote. They want racial power and they don't mind if they have to suffer as long as the black, other, gay, and immigrants suffers more.
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The Guardian nails it: White working class votes for white supremacists. Period. [View all]
AverageOldGuy
4 hrs ago
OP
White Working Class includes a lot of others now--given the devastating economy-- so...
hlthe2b
3 hrs ago
#5
In a sense, "access to power over other racial groups" is still viewed by lower class whites as an economic advantage.
sop
3 hrs ago
#6
"I may get screwed over, but the Other, the 'They', they get screwed over even more."
ck4829
3 hrs ago
#8
I'm white working class. I am not MAGA! I am not racist! Please stop stereotyping.
Doodley
3 hrs ago
#9
You're right. It would be more accurate to add the modifier "some" before "white working class."
sop
3 hrs ago
#13
Not sure that "strong majority" of white working class still holds true. Not all white working class
KPN
48 min ago
#65
I can remember a picture of Clinton & Gore with a credit-card type card that would be your access card to Universal
NBachers
2 hrs ago
#27
No. White working class left in post-civil rights era after the two parties diverged on race, cultural changes.
betsuni
1 hr ago
#55
Fox News and hate radio push a steady diet of anti-Black, anti-immigrant messaging.
yardwork
1 hr ago
#58
From the Right: "liberals hate white people," from other direction: "Dem establishment ignores white working class."
betsuni
31 min ago
#66
When I hear him say make Americkkka great again it's really make racism great again!
kimbutgar
3 hrs ago
#16
It's a shallow combination of ownership within class identity and fear of unknown competition
haele
1 hr ago
#50
Yes, artificial and unnecessary division based on falsehood that Democrats "ignore the working class."
betsuni
55 sec ago
#71
And these beliefs and preferences are very difficult to counter, even with the "right messaging"
Redleg
3 hrs ago
#20
The story of the white sharecropper poisoning his black sharecropper neighbor's mule come to mind.
Squaredeal
2 hrs ago
#21
This is a "duh" headline..white working class vote their hate for "the other"...
agingdem
2 hrs ago
#29
Not really "duh" since we aren't used to seeing this from the media, at least in the U.S.
Redleg
2 hrs ago
#30
Yes, this is central to understanding the American project and why it has failed. nt
Blasphemer
2 hrs ago
#36
It's because of racism we can't have the nice things that folks have in other rich countries.
Fil1957
2 hrs ago
#41
And what about brown men with "foreign-sounding names" like Mamdani and El Sayed?
biocube
1 hr ago
#54