Upper middle class, white, male, over 50 and raised religious, I say fuck 'em.
For 500 year my ancestors exploited others not like them for economic gain. The only reason our(USA) type of racism developed was to help further the ruling class exploit labor from Africans and African Americans. And harkening back to what LBJ said, the whole time the rich were telling the poor whites how good they had it because they were better off than the blacks, both before and after slavery.
Hell, women too. Why are Teachers, Nurses and admin assistants paid less here than other parts of the world? Because rich whites figured they could get single or non married women to do it for pennies on the dollar and that still goes on.
So along comes Reagan and the upper class figure out that they can start doing to white what they have always done to minorities...exploiting their labor for great economic gain. They bet that if they doubled down on the racism they could get away with it.
Trump if proof that they pretty much have.
Rather than pandering to increasingly poor whites, the Democratic party needs to tell them that the upper class are doing the same thing to them that they have done to minorities forever. We need to be screaming that the percent of the GNP that labor has lost has more than been made up by corporate profits. And if they do not listen, they we take comfort that with folks under 30 less than 25% support Trump. Everyday, more and more of his supporters are buried. And we need to tell them with it does not mean reinventing the wheel, go back to liberal economic policy that FDR brought in and their grandparents loved.
But if we soft pedal our commitment to the social justice commitments our party has we are playing into their hands.
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