Hillary could be the final nail in the middle-class coffin.

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256. Then why did you express dismay

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That Clinton was appealing to women and "minorities" and arguing that will be the death nail in the coffin of the middle class? It is you who made that argument. You wrote it, no one else.

Her 'strategy" is the same strategy all Democratic candidates employ: they appeal to Democratic voters. The argument that speaking explicitly to concerns of women, LGBT Americans, and people of color is divisive is exactly what the GOP argues, and they have been doing so for quite some time now.

If you want women and the rest of the MAJORITY to join with you in political goals, you would do well not to express alarm that politicians seek to appeal to our interests. That doesn't read like someone who believes we are all in it together. Then you insist she should focus her attentions on an even smaller minority, union workers, because you think that is what counts. This isn't 1950 or 1970. While Democratic politicians welcome and court union support, no politician is going to run on a platform about unions in a time when 11.7 percent of the male population and 10.5 of the female population are represented by unions. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm As much as you might wish things were different, they aren't.


You have reason to be alarmed that politicians address women, people of color, and LGBT Americans. Straight, white male privilege is slipping away, and you and your pals can wring your hands about the awful woman presidential candidate until the cows come home, but you can't change the fact that it isn't all about you anymore. You share this nation with others who are no longer excluded from the body politic. That means politicians speak to us as well.

I don't find your argument that you don't mean what you write at all convincing, particularly when you double down on it by talking about being "divisive" by addressing the demographic composition of the electorate today. You can find politicians who share your belief that there is something wrong with speaking to the majority of Americans; the GOP is full of them.