I’m sure there’s some perennially angry blue collar dudes wanting to shoot bud lights, but most of them listen to Joe Rogan, like beer and are general apathetic to politics.
Democrats were the working class party during FDR and everyone shifted away after Reagan, but the difference between the two parties is astounding on this. MAGA is closer culturally, but light years away on actually helping working class folks. Dems are on another planet culturally, but are at least trying to do something.
Culture and vibes are powerful. They make people do really irrational and sometimes evil shit. It’s how wealthy plantation owners in the south convinced poor whites to lynch recently freed blacks (as one extreme example).
I know a lot of nurses, computer data entry clerks, teachers, waitresses, dog groomers who vote for Democrats. They are working class too. They live in the same town and go to the same bars and restaurants. Working class consists of a variety of people, not just autoworkers.
True, I do as well, but we can’t ignore that a large portion of white working class (mostly men) shifted away from the Democrats. They happen to be enough of the population, situated in just the right places, to let someone like Trump in again.
Retraining is change. Change is scary.
I’m sure there’s some perennially angry blue collar dudes wanting to shoot bud lights, but most of them listen to Joe Rogan, like beer and are general apathetic to politics.
Democrats were the working class party during FDR and everyone shifted away after Reagan, but the difference between the two parties is astounding on this. MAGA is closer culturally, but light years away on actually helping working class folks. Dems are on another planet culturally, but are at least trying to do something.
Culture and vibes are powerful. They make people do really irrational and sometimes evil shit. It’s how wealthy plantation owners in the south convinced poor whites to lynch recently freed blacks (as one extreme example).
I know a lot of nurses, computer data entry clerks, teachers, waitresses, dog groomers who vote for Democrats. They are working class too. They live in the same town and go to the same bars and restaurants. Working class consists of a variety of people, not just autoworkers.
True, I do as well, but we can’t ignore that a large portion of white working class (mostly men) shifted away from the Democrats. They happen to be enough of the population, situated in just the right places, to let someone like Trump in again.