Democrats are now the party of leftwing extremism. Guys beating up girls in the name of equity.... Second graders being taught how to tuck and tape..... Judging a person based on the color of their skin and not the content of their character......
It's become a sick f'ing cult. Think of @PaoliLion and @LafayetteBear when you read this one. It's like the author knows them.... lol...
https://jeffjacoby.com/26874/working-class-voters-didnt-leave-the-democratic
"How is it possible that Republicans are representing the majority of people who struggle? How is that possible?"
The answer is that Democratic priorities are increasingly out of step with the needs and concerns of voters in poorer, working-class communities.
Upholding the dignity of blue-collar work used to be an integral element of Democratic messaging. In 1968, for example, Lyndon Johnson urged Congress to authorize a manpower program that would help unemployed Americans find jobs — not merely for income, but because work would give them "dignity, independence, and self-sufficiency."
But while Democrats continue to pay lip service to the interests of the working class, they have become the party of cultural elites and intellectuals who have little in common with the non-college-educated working people in heartland communities. "The sad truth," University of California, Davis professor Lisa Pruitt wrote last year in Politico, "is that coastal progressive condescension toward workers has become second nature to many Democrats."
At times that condescension is so raw it makes headlines. Speaking at a San Francisco fundraiser during his 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama notoriously described blue-collar residents of "small towns in the Midwest" as "bitter" individuals who "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them." Even more notorious was Hillary Clinton's remark in 2016 that half of all Donald Trump's voters fit in a "basket of deplorables," which she characterized as "the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it."
It's become a sick f'ing cult. Think of @PaoliLion and @LafayetteBear when you read this one. It's like the author knows them.... lol...
https://jeffjacoby.com/26874/working-class-voters-didnt-leave-the-democratic
"How is it possible that Republicans are representing the majority of people who struggle? How is that possible?"
The answer is that Democratic priorities are increasingly out of step with the needs and concerns of voters in poorer, working-class communities.
Upholding the dignity of blue-collar work used to be an integral element of Democratic messaging. In 1968, for example, Lyndon Johnson urged Congress to authorize a manpower program that would help unemployed Americans find jobs — not merely for income, but because work would give them "dignity, independence, and self-sufficiency."
But while Democrats continue to pay lip service to the interests of the working class, they have become the party of cultural elites and intellectuals who have little in common with the non-college-educated working people in heartland communities. "The sad truth," University of California, Davis professor Lisa Pruitt wrote last year in Politico, "is that coastal progressive condescension toward workers has become second nature to many Democrats."
At times that condescension is so raw it makes headlines. Speaking at a San Francisco fundraiser during his 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama notoriously described blue-collar residents of "small towns in the Midwest" as "bitter" individuals who "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them." Even more notorious was Hillary Clinton's remark in 2016 that half of all Donald Trump's voters fit in a "basket of deplorables," which she characterized as "the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it."
