I think this is all less complicated than that. The message is this simple. The Democratic Party is for the working class. Who are the working class? Pretty much all of us. Anyone who has to get up every morning and earn a paycheck to make their world go round is working class. That’s white men and women. That’s black men and women, that…
I think this is all less complicated than that. The message is this simple. The Democratic Party is for the working class. Who are the working class? Pretty much all of us. Anyone who has to get up every morning and earn a paycheck to make their world go round is working class. That’s white men and women. That’s black men and women, that’s Latino men and women and it’s Asian men and women, it’s college-educated men and women, it’s high-school educated men and women, it’s gay men and women, etc., etc., etc. It’s also farmers. We are in a battle of the working class vs the billionaire class. The billionaire class wants to own and control everything, EVERYTHING! And, the Republicans are their whores. Our democracy was created to protect the people from tyrants. Today’s tyrants are the billionaires. If you argue that first — and make the case that we are all in this together — race gender, sexual orientation doesn’t matter, you will start winning elections. And at that point voters are more open to transgender rights and immigration rights. BTW — immigrants? They’re the working class.
For five decades the Democrats were "the party of the working man". It worked pretty well. The problem is that practically speaking, there no longer is ANY party of the working man - because half the labor class abandoned the Democrats because they could no longer be in the "party of blacks, or gays, or illegals, or hippies, or feminists, or war protestors, or "Other"'. Lower class Americans have been voting against their economic self-interest for cultural reasons for over 50 years. You think you can just flip a switch and start talking about kitchen table issues and "oligarchs", and magically change that behavior?
Right now, "the privileged" are fighting back HARD to hold onto their privilege. They have the money and all the power. At best, you're going to have to sneak up on them if you are going to get more crumbs for the working class - and that starts by being less "icky" in the culture wars.
I don’t disagree with any of this. The answer is no, the Dems can’t change it overnight but they needed to start changing their messaging (and more importantly actions) yesterday. And yes they can’t waste precious time fighting over transgender rights right now. You don’t abandon those people but you have to go on fucking offense and quit reacting to all the transgender bait the right wing keeps putting out there.
This is exactly it! Anyone who earns a paycheck that is signed by someone else is “working class.” You might be working class at a high level, earning $500 thousand per year, but if you can be summarily fired without cause, and your paycheck disappears, you are working class.
There is a very small sliver of people who do not fit this criterion, who can survive / thrive on their investment / business income. But the rest of us are all working class and the sooner we all realize that, the better off we will all be.
I think this is all less complicated than that. The message is this simple. The Democratic Party is for the working class. Who are the working class? Pretty much all of us. Anyone who has to get up every morning and earn a paycheck to make their world go round is working class. That’s white men and women. That’s black men and women, that’s Latino men and women and it’s Asian men and women, it’s college-educated men and women, it’s high-school educated men and women, it’s gay men and women, etc., etc., etc. It’s also farmers. We are in a battle of the working class vs the billionaire class. The billionaire class wants to own and control everything, EVERYTHING! And, the Republicans are their whores. Our democracy was created to protect the people from tyrants. Today’s tyrants are the billionaires. If you argue that first — and make the case that we are all in this together — race gender, sexual orientation doesn’t matter, you will start winning elections. And at that point voters are more open to transgender rights and immigration rights. BTW — immigrants? They’re the working class.
On point.
“And the Republicans are their whores” Truer words have never spoken.
For five decades the Democrats were "the party of the working man". It worked pretty well. The problem is that practically speaking, there no longer is ANY party of the working man - because half the labor class abandoned the Democrats because they could no longer be in the "party of blacks, or gays, or illegals, or hippies, or feminists, or war protestors, or "Other"'. Lower class Americans have been voting against their economic self-interest for cultural reasons for over 50 years. You think you can just flip a switch and start talking about kitchen table issues and "oligarchs", and magically change that behavior?
Right now, "the privileged" are fighting back HARD to hold onto their privilege. They have the money and all the power. At best, you're going to have to sneak up on them if you are going to get more crumbs for the working class - and that starts by being less "icky" in the culture wars.
I don’t disagree with any of this. The answer is no, the Dems can’t change it overnight but they needed to start changing their messaging (and more importantly actions) yesterday. And yes they can’t waste precious time fighting over transgender rights right now. You don’t abandon those people but you have to go on fucking offense and quit reacting to all the transgender bait the right wing keeps putting out there.
This is exactly it! Anyone who earns a paycheck that is signed by someone else is “working class.” You might be working class at a high level, earning $500 thousand per year, but if you can be summarily fired without cause, and your paycheck disappears, you are working class.
There is a very small sliver of people who do not fit this criterion, who can survive / thrive on their investment / business income. But the rest of us are all working class and the sooner we all realize that, the better off we will all be.