unless we GOTV, and especially with regard to women and minorities, we will have trouble retaining

[YoungDemCA]

18. You assume that voting Democratic is "in their own interest"-or that they believe it to be so

Maybe they figure that they HAVE pursued their own interests as individual working people competing with other workers for a rapidly shrinking piece of the pie. That is what has happened-working class people are competing with other working-class people for a shrinking piece of the economic pie, while the wealthy and well-connected are increasingly insulated from the rest of society-including economic competition.

The "I've Got Mine, Screw You" is a selfish attitude, yes-but isn't selfishness constantly encouraged by the conditions of the economy, by the free-market capitalist ideology, by everyday experience? Especially nowadays, where capitalist economic growth is more of a zero-sum game for workers.

I don't think it's fair to blame poor and/or working people for these conditions, or for the reactionary politics from working people that often are displayed by working class people in this day and age. The problem is with the system itself, not the individuals who are forced into playing a role by the system of stratified power relations.