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In reply to the discussion: Democrats' hunt for the white working-class male voter [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,966 posts)Because they would find something else to complain about, like women demandign equal wages for equal work. It might seem nice to think they would realize that those of diufferent color and gender may have common interest with them, but nope, whatever they would be given would just be taken by them, and they would shove out anyone else but them. I remember very vividly the way Unions demonized Hispanic workers, and while folks like Trumka have made HEROIC measures to fix that, you still see very thinly veiled anti Hispanic and anti women senitments by the same people who talk about how they are pro union liberals.
Not that killing trade deals is not the right thing to do, but many of us have no illusions about what these to use a term used throughout this thread "working class white men" would do. After we worked to get these jobs back, they would knock us aside, eat all the food at the table, and expect us to be grateful that they could return to being the favorite children of society and default power setting. To the woman that asked for equal wages for equal work, they would yell "woman, fix me a sammich!" to the Latino that worked with them, they would say "go home, we don't want immigrants!" and it would devolve into some Pabst Blue Ribbon fake working class lovefest, to be followed by them losing power when the elite of society did the whole "dem people are takin yer jawbs!" chant , to make sure they made sure to hate their fellow workers rather than the bosses.
We will do the right thing, we will kill or repeal those free trade deals, and get those jobs back, just do NOT expect us to take orders from you when we do, after all, these jobs were lost on your watch.