The "liberal elite"

[Warpy]

114. You need a RAISE, which is something a lot of party insiders aren't talking about

and they damned well should be talking about it. Wages have been allowed to fall too far in this country. When a job doesn't support the worker doing it, something is very, very wrong.

It's the people with the upper middle class bias who are not talking about what's happening to too many people out there in the party. This is who is being talked about as "liberal elites." Oh, they think about great things like full equality under the law for all of us, paths to citizenship for undocumented workers who have been here, working, and paying taxes for decades, and improving health care, an issue close to me, too. They're just not seeing the sheer misery out there among people who want to work, have found work, do the best job they can, and still don't have enough money for good food and a safe place to live, let alone being able to save for retirement or send their kids to even community colleges.

This is what Sanders and Warren are talking about, but the people who prove themselves to be the ones they're trying to wake up always pick on the words they use while ignoring the contents of their speeches.

Appealing to "middle class issues" isn't going to mean a damned thing to people who are working hard and barely hanging on. Middle class looks rich to them and they know nobody's paying a damned bit of attention to their own issues of not needing that extra child care credit because they can't afford to get married and have that child, in the first place.

Mostly they don't bother to vote, at all. Why the hell should they?

I'm hoping the housecleaning Perez and Ellison have done allows the party to shed that bias and start speaking to all of us. Building the party into something that can campaign without free media time and win is a tall order. Addressing the fall in the purchasing power of the average family as well as working folks who don't have enough to live on any more is a big first step in that.