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Home Front: Politix
Democrats Have Abandoned the Working Class
2022-08-24
[AMAC] Beginning in earnest with Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
’s election in 2016, working class voters in the United States have fled the Democratic Party
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
in droves, quickly eroding a once solid base of support for the party. Amid this seismic shift in the electorate, many elected Democrats and mainstream media pundits have over the past several months desperately tried to prop up this narrative of Democrats as the party of everyday Americans — even as the policies emanating from Washington have grown increasingly opposed to their interests.
Not to belabor the obvious, but the Dems have become the anti-white party. They're not even pro-black anymore; they take them for granted, and every city they control has become a shit hole of violence and corruption. They're not fond of Hispanix -- Eww! Cubans! Eww Venezuelans! Give us more Hondurans! (Highest murder rate in the world.) Give us more Salvadorans! (Home of Mara Salvatrucha, second highest murder rate in the world.) Send us more Mexicans! (Whole country controlled by cartels.)
Following the 2016 election, many in media circles seemed to believe that Trump’s performance with blue-collar and working class voters in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio must have been a fluke. Though 2018 was an electoral setback for Republicans in the House, 2020 quickly proved a continuation of the trend that began four years before. Analysis from The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

in 2020 on "The Two Americas Funding Trump and Biden Campaigns" found, for example, that in "ZIP codes above [the median household of $68,703], Mr. Biden outraised Mr. Trump by $389.1 million. Below that level, Mr. Trump was actually ahead by $53.4 million." Additionally, the study also found that much of Biden’s "financial edge" came from deep blue states along the coasts — supporting the widespread perception of Democrats as the party of coastal elites. "The donations mirror voting patterns," Republican pollster Whit Ayres noted at the time.
The Washington Post claimed to have counted 30,000 lies told by Donald Trump while they were trying to destroy him with lies of their own. They ignored the fact that the things he said he'd do, he did.
The reason why this shift is occurring is easy to see — on issue after issue, Democrats’ policies are hopelessly out of step with the experiences of working class voters. On day one of his administration, Biden took actions like canceling the Keystone XL pipeline and ending oil and gas leases on federal lands — policies favored by wealthy liberals, but which started a steady rise in energy prices that hit working class Americans particularly hard. Democrats’ $1.9 trillion "American Rescue Plan," which was chock-full of woke priorities aimed at appeasing far-left activists, touched off an inflation crisis that has further devastated the financial lives of working class families. Instead of working to curb inflation, Biden and Congressional Democrats passed a bill dubbed the "Inflation Reduction Act" that economists believe will do nothing but increase inflation, and which contains subsidies for electric vehicles and solar panels — more welfare for the wealthy. In just the past two years, every Democrat in Congress has voted for higher energy costs, ending coal, and unleashing an army of IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
agents on low and middle-income Americans.
Google sez we're now 57.8% white, 18.7% Hispanic, 12.4% Black and 6% Asian. We hear constantly about "white supremacy' and white this and white that. But the 18.7 percent that's Hispanic coexists a lot more comfortably now than they did fifty years ago. The Asians are more "white" than white people, taking prizes in the math and science that the white kids are too lazy to pursue. There's also a lot of intermarriage among all the races, to include white and black. That's because girls are pretty and boys are handsome.
Despite Democrats’ claims that these policies are targeted at working and middle class Americans, evidence suggests that the opposite is true. For instance, available data shows that 80% of electric vehicle subsidies end up going to individuals making more than $100,000 per year. A Wall Street Journal analysis of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s push to switch to "green" energy sources, a plan similar to the climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, showed that while working class households saw their energy bills increase, wealthy households actually saw financial gain from the policies.

Additionally, though Democrats slammed the Trump tax cuts as "tax breaks for the rich" and insist that their tax plan would "make the wealthy pay their fair share," real wages grew under Trump, and that wage growth went predominately to "workers at the lower end of the pay scale." Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings...
an analysis from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation found that the tax code changes in Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act would result in an increased tax burden of more than $17 billion on Americans making less than $200,000 in 2023 alone.

Democrats’ struggles with working class voters are perhaps best captured in middle American states that were once reliably blue or purple but are now trending Republican. The state of Iowa, for instance, which for decades was "the reliable wind vane of American politics," has all but totally rejected Democrats. Obama carried the state twice in 2008 and 2012, but Trump also won there twice — gaining ground in 2020 over 2016. Since then, Republican voter registration has almost doubled in the state, and Biden’s approval sits at a dismal 23%.

A similar story has played out in Ohio, which also voted for Obama twice, but which Trump won handily in 2020. Though Biden managed to carry Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota two years ago, these once reliable bastions of Democratic support are now toss-ups.

In all of these states, which have been at the epicenter of the decline of American manufacturing in recent decades, working class voters are driving this shift, undoubtedly in large part thanks to Donald Trump’s message of economic renewal and a return to American greatness.

In response, some Democrats have, to their credit, attempted to rebuild this base of support. A headline from The New York Times late last month asked: "How Can Democrats Persuade Voters They Aren’t The Party of Rich Elites?" In an apparent response, Senator Sherrod I absolutely trust Hillary Brown
Dem senator from Ohio who harbored the same presidential ambitions as the rest of his colleagues. At a distance he was indistinguishable from most other Dem politicians, including the females. It can be said that he waned without waxing...
of Ohio (D) wrote in an op-ed earlier this month, "We’re supposed to be the workers’ Party. Democrats must be that party again." (Never mind the fact that Senator Brown has garnered a reputation as one of the most far-left members of the Senate and was a strong supporter of Democrats’ spending binge.)

But this outreach effort has proven to be little more than lip service to the actual needs of working class voters. Far from re-calibrating their policy agenda as working class voters abandon them, Democrats appear poised to double down on their embrace of elite interests and a far-left social agenda, one that is completely at odds with the traditional values of most working class families. For Republicans, this presents a golden opportunity — if they can follow Trump’s lead and continue focusing on the issues that matter most to these voters.
Posted by:Fred

#12  and their servents recently imported across the southern border...

You misspelled slaves. The democrats may promise a 'path to citizenship' all they want - but they will never actually deliver. They love having their slaves too much - and this is what illegals are to them - a slave class entirely dependant on their good will.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-08-24 19:35  

#11  People who were indoctrinated from an early age to be a democrat, a communist, yes, even a Republican, can have a hard time overcoming that, regardless of the evidence right before their eyes. When I was a reporter in the Mon Valley area, there were more pictures of Roosevelt and Kennedy than of Jesus in those union steelworker homes I visited while working my beat. And that was when most of the mills had not only been shut down but were being torn down.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-08-24 19:04  

#10  My late father was a lifelong democrat. (Don't know how long after he passed that he continued to vote.)
I wish he were alive for many reasons, but one thing I would like talk to him about is how the Democratic party has changed over the years. Dad was one of the best Catholics I ever knew. I would like to ask him is how he feels about the Democrats' full throated support for abortion.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2022-08-24 19:01  

#9  The Working Class should be so lucky; they just got tapped to pay for the schooling of The Academic Class.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-08-24 18:29  

#8  That's a known, has been for some time. The questiobn is, who have the Dems moved to? My view is that they are now the party of the uber rich and their servents recently imported across the southern border... as well as any and all hostile foreign gummints.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-08-24 14:31  

#7  And the demonstrators; it was an ‘oh please, oh please, oh please” situation.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2022-08-24 14:09  

#6  Okay, maybe 30-40%.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2022-08-24 14:06  

#5  AA, you may be right. But, I first noticed a vast gulf between Dem and Pubs. I was a “marksman” from 1st Bde 82nd Abn up on the rooves of the buildings; the only one. Ostensibly counter-snipers. The others were from Marines, Secret Service, and FBI HR teams. Under our brightly colored beach umbrellas. On the rooves.

When certain politicians greeted us before the start of our day and their first day, happened twice, all of the Dems and maybe 40% of the Pubs could barely conceal their sneers of disgust. 1972.

Hated all politicians since.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2022-08-24 14:04  

#4  It really came into full view with the '68 Dim convention in Chicago.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2022-08-24 13:18  

#3  Remember the 'Rainbow Coalition' started back in the wreckage of McGovern's 72 Presidential Run?
IN: 'People of Color', Coastal Elites, Academics, Government Workers and Ecological Fanatics (dare we also add Reds and Pinks of all stripes?)
OUT: White Southerners, White Midwesterners, Industrial Union Workers ('If you don't get a degree you are a subhuman wretch' plus "How can you work on an assembly line in that foul, Gaea™ despoiling hellhole that harms the property value of my nearby condo?") and Middle Class Small-business owners ("Death to the bourgeoisie!).

It took several generations to fully manifest but the signs were already there in 1976 if you looked hard enough...
Posted by: magpie   2022-08-24 10:59  

#2  Why do you think they're all-in on election cheating?

When you can't win, cheat.

They utterly despise us, the American people. Hate our guts. They never get tired of telling us.
Posted by: Tiny Jeater6933   2022-08-24 08:36  

#1  They just notice that?

When the Democrats Marxists couldn't make headway on class they switched to race to divide and conquer.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-08-24 07:21  

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