Working class whites - when did we lose them?

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93. you forgot the other part of that

or you knew it was not safe for work.

Working class issues took a back seat to other groups, groups like

minorities
immigrants (as a subset of minorities)
women
GLBT
and, of course the "middle class" (meaning the 80th percentile and up)

Thus we have

Republicans - who fight for the top 5%
Democrats - who fight for the 80-95th percentile

Both parties claim to care about the bottom 80% but neither of them really does, but it is okay, because they are divided over different issues. Issues like abortion and public bathrooms. So we have, again, two parties

Republicans - anti choice party that does NOT care about the bottom 80%
Democrats - pro choice party that does NOT care about the bottom 80%

But hey, at least we in the bottom 80% have a choice when we vote. The bottom 80% is a huge majority. It should be so powerful that BOTH parties will cater to it. Instead both parties can just pretend and the bottom 80% has nowhere to go.

But we in the bottom 80% also care deeply about many of those social issues. So we fight about them, instead of uniting to make our representatives work for us. Plus, the top 20% makes up the vast, vast, vast majority of donations. And campaigning is all about the money. You start with candidates who are members of the top 5% - a) because they can self-finance, and b) because they have richer friends than working class people do.