How does the Democratic Party win back the votes of poor white males?

[GaYellowDawg]

1. It won't.

Poor white males are low-information voters who like being low-information voters. They don't want their worldviews or prejudices rocked in the slightest, and the Republican Party plays to their prejudices. When they're in the majority, they're a mob. When they're in the minority, they go off in the woods and form survivalist camps.

The only way that poor white males would change their minds about parties would be if:

1. They changed their minds about women, other ethnicities, and other sexual orientations. Their economic status makes them feel low, but as long as they've got their prejudices, they've got someone to feel superior to.

2. After #1, they focused on the injustices in this life instead of being convinced that injustices will be corrected in the next. I'm not saying that they should abandon their religion; I'm Christian myself, but I think that people shouldn't just be content with thinking that the evil, or oppressive, or predatory rich will get theirs in the next life.

Karl Marx said that religion is the opiate of the masses, but so is prejudice, perhaps even more so. And you know how hard it is to kick an opiate habit.