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In reply to the discussion: The Democrats have a working class problem - and it's by no means confined to working class whites. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)And anti-Democrat left wing, capitalizing on the right's huge investments in propaganda, I'm sorry to say.
The nationwide Democratic Party alliance is dishonestly derided as "identity politics," when what truly reflects is a hugely wide and diverse coming together of We the People. And note that a third of 2016's white working class who did vote voted Democratic.
Yes, the "cultural anxiety" distressing some white people who only lately are finally realizing this isn't and never was Ozzie and Harriet land is real. Bill Clinton only got 41% of the white working class vote.
The black male candidate won by a large margin that made us proud, but the WWW vote dropped to 36%.
The first white woman for president, symbolic of all the women who never actually lived lives of upper middle class leisure and greeted their successful provider husbands at the door perfectly groomed with a martini, dropped to around 32%.
Both those latter drops are mostly measures of pushing social advances too hard for the comfort of resentful whites who didn't develop their skills sufficiently and are falling behind. But a surge of bigotry and misogyny arising from anxiety is just that.
On all issues, we, and only we, represent the interests and wishes of a vast majority of the American people, including most working class whites and most trumpsters, and that is a real and simple truth that had to be displaced by an equally giant lie if today's Republicans were to survive.
And I'll remind you, YoungDem, that a 4-million-voter majority voted Democrat for president, in spite of massive election tampering in many states.
This kind of hostile right-wing propaganda should only be posted to be refuted. So go to it, YoungDem. Declare your independence, pour that Kool-Aid down the sink, and engage your intellect and your ethics.