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In reply to the discussion: How the Democrats Lost the Working Class (NYT) [View all]valleyrogue
(2,298 posts)65. LOL!!!! There is no "working class" in the United States.
The sloppy use of language really needs to stop. "Working class" applies to those in European countries, NOT the United States. What this idiot means is "blue collar workers" as distinguished from "white collar workers." What he REALLY means is the aggrieved white males, especially those without a college education, but there are plenty of those who are allies of the misogynists and racists.
Also, this handwringing because Democrats lost an election needs to stop. I have heard this bullshit over and over and over again my entire life after Democrats lose a presidential election, and it continues to be bullshit.
Where is the handwringing when the GOP loses an election? Crickets.
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Many of us simply want an affordable ev. We cannot afford to prop up the US auto industry.
delisen
Jan 2025
#41
Free trade benefits the majority. How do you stop globalization? AI is going to exacerbate things. This article has good
OrlandoDem2
Jan 2025
#3
No it doesn't benefit folks period. Cheap shit has been largely responsible for the
Demsrule86
Jan 2025
#44
MSM is going to preach to us, again, telling us what we are thinking. Well, I'm not blaming Dems for a sham election
yaesu
Jan 2025
#4
Robert Reich is one of the main reasons Clinton lost in 2016. His and a few other Democrats constant bashing of
Silent Type
Jan 2025
#6
We need a lot more serious industrial policy in this country. The problem is...
keep_left
Jan 2025
#11
Thank-you. Exactly. They are going to pay for their foolishness just as they did when they voted for Reagan, only this
JohnSJ
Jan 2025
#49
We could have fought those by flooding the airways with "weird" and "smelly."
Scrivener7
Jan 2025
#30
Irony Alert: The NYT has never written for those whom they label " the working class."- They just write about them.
delisen
Jan 2025
#38
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." Lord Acton
Ping Tung
Jan 2025
#45
Reich's a big believer in the left-leaning populist BS that Democrats ignore-hate unions and the white working class,
betsuni
Jan 2025
#55
Biden has done nothing but enact policies geared toward the working class. I've said this before.
In It to Win It
Jan 2025
#56
Please tell me what have the republicans done for the working man in the last 40 years
Keepthesoulalive
Jan 2025
#60
As if 40 years of Republican trickle down economics has been fantastic for the working class!
betsuni
Jan 2025
#61