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In reply to the discussion: The Guardian nails it: White working class votes for white supremacists. Period. [View all]Cirsium
(4,211 posts)75. Not true
Clinton's attempts to reach across the aisle and achieve bipartisan consensus - which is just a euphemistic way of saying pander to white racists - did not work. That's the lesson of the Clinton era. Trying to win over "white working class voters" - white racists - is a losing proposition and always has been.
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Across both parties, terms like economic opportunity, upward mobility, housing and job creation are effectively dog whistles for the last 100 years of government rhetoric that champions working-class whites over working-class everyone else while the outcomes of their policies enrich the wealthiest Americans at everyone elses expense.
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The Guardian nails it: White working class votes for white supremacists. Period. [View all]
AverageOldGuy
6 hrs ago
OP
White Working Class includes a lot of others now--given the devastating economy-- so...
hlthe2b
6 hrs ago
#5
I venture to guess many/most DUers are "working class" and a lot are White. Are they all to be lumped in
hlthe2b
1 hr ago
#88
In a sense, "access to power over other racial groups" is still viewed by lower class whites as an economic advantage.
sop
6 hrs ago
#6
"I may get screwed over, but the Other, the 'They', they get screwed over even more."
ck4829
6 hrs ago
#8
I'm white working class. I am not MAGA! I am not racist! Please stop stereotyping.
Doodley
6 hrs ago
#9
You're right. It would be more accurate to add the modifier "some" before "white working class."
sop
5 hrs ago
#13
Not sure that "strong majority" of white working class still holds true. Not all white working class
KPN
3 hrs 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
5 hrs ago
#27
LBJ knew he was going to lose the southern racists by signing the Civil Rights Act
FakeNoose
1 hr ago
#89
No. White working class left in post-civil rights era after the two parties diverged on race, cultural changes.
betsuni
4 hrs ago
#55
Fox News and hate radio push a steady diet of anti-Black, anti-immigrant messaging.
yardwork
4 hrs ago
#58
From the Right: "liberals hate white people," other direction: "Dem establishment ignores white working class
betsuni
3 hrs ago
#66
When I hear him say make Americkkka great again it's really make racism great again!
kimbutgar
5 hrs ago
#16
It's a shallow combination of ownership within class identity and fear of unknown competition
haele
4 hrs ago
#50
Yes, artificial and unnecessary division based on falsehood that Democrats "ignore the working class."
betsuni
2 hrs ago
#71
And these beliefs and preferences are very difficult to counter, even with the "right messaging"
Redleg
5 hrs ago
#20
The story of the white sharecropper poisoning his black sharecropper neighbor's mule come to mind.
Squaredeal
5 hrs ago
#21
This is a "duh" headline..white working class vote their hate for "the other"...
agingdem
5 hrs ago
#29
Not really "duh" since we aren't used to seeing this from the media, at least in the U.S.
Redleg
5 hrs ago
#30
Yes, this is central to understanding the American project and why it has failed. nt
Blasphemer
4 hrs ago
#36
It's because of racism we can't have the nice things that folks have in other rich countries.
Fil1957
4 hrs ago
#41
And what about brown men with "foreign-sounding names" like Mamdani and El Sayed?
biocube
4 hrs ago
#54
What rhetoric is Platner using that signals he is a racist? I find your attack on him to be problematic at best. He is
Celerity
1 hr ago
#90
Which is why we will never see a black Republican presidential nominee in our lifetimes.
Wednesdays
2 hrs ago
#80