We Need A Class Consciousness Revival

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22. Read your own post again:

" people tend to see themselves in non-economic terms... gun owners, gay, christian, anti-abortion, white, black, hispanic, immigrant rights, whatever. "

For one thing, categories like "gun owner" do not belong in the same list as black, Hispanic, "whatever" to which we can add LGBTQ, women, disabled, and the aged. Gun owners aren't oppressed.

When you sit and think hard why you wrote "non-economic" on the beginning of a list that included people who definitely do get oppressed economically on the basis of their physical inborn characteristics, then you'll figure out where you blew it.

Class encompasses the effects of race, gender, etc. These issues are not non-economic.

The WWC knows all about their own sense of class--several of them are in unions. Some of them still voted for Trump. They are often really racist. That's not a mystery and shows up in polling too.

What Dems need to do is expand voter protections for the section of the working class that has shown a willingness to save its own ass--the people who voted for Hillary, or couldn't because of voter id laws.