Well the title of this post understates it. For Democrats working class whites, once the base of the Party of the Jackass, are now devil figures for that party. Dave Griffey at Daffey Thoughts explains it for us:
Fareed Zakaria, that oracle of obtuseness, who once declared in 2016 that the world never looked better and we owe it all to the Obama administration even as we were told ISIS was the new normal, comes out of the closet and speaks the words. He says it’s time for Democrats to ditch those working class voters, especially the white ones, who the Dems lost ages ago. Increasingly it’s hipster educated professional (read: wealthy) women, minorities and yes, even whites who have flocked to the Dems in recent years: Â
“They have a solid base of college-educated professionals, women and minorities. Many of the swing voters who have helped them win the popular vote in seven of the past nine presidential elections are registered independents and suburbanites”
And so:Â
“Biden failed to win the working class. Democrats might want to stop trying”
Just stop bothering with those working class types and catch the wave. Do working class Americans have concerns? Could they be hurting? Are they perhaps suffering and need attention? Aren’t they part of that working poor scraping by that the Left has forever cared about? Perhaps. But the bigger question is can the Democrats win by giving two flying damns or a hell about them and their problems? Mr. Zakaria apparently thinks ‘no’ is the answer to that question.
Yep. Nothing like coming out and saying exactly who it is Democrats shouldn’t care about for political expediency. It’s almost like he’s suggesting the Democrats never really cared about the working class in the first place, pandering to them only because it was convenient. Â
You know, whenever something happens or someone says something, even someone in a religious or non-political setting, journalists often frame it as being the result of politically driven agendas and expediency. As if people can’t actually have pure motives because everything must be an ulterior, usually political, motive. It makes me think of the thief who assumes everyone else must be a dishonest crook. Â
Go here to comment. Culture war battles in this country are often disguised Class Warfare. Modern Leftism in this country has morphed into a way for upper class whites, economically only, to pour vials of hatred on the heads of working class whites while feeling virtuous while doing so. This fact explains why the Democrats are losing black and Hispanic, especially Hispanic, voters. They have little interest in this type of politics as psychodrama. Trump has produced a stronger, more populist and blue collar, GOP, but he has had a lot of help from Woke Democrats who cannot conceal the raw hatred they have for Trump’s blue collar supporters.
Hypothesis: the Democrats’ interest in white wage earners is to work to reduce their share in the population because everything that matters to the haut bourgeois types who run the Democratic Party tends to be of scant interest to white wage-earners. They cannot be mobilized to support the Democrats’ favored causes because those causes leave them indifferent, puzzled or repelled. Also, the haut bourgeois types do not recognize white wage earners as people with whom they have any affinity or who do anything they value. Instead, the haut bourgeois types manifest what Mr. Sailer calls ‘leapfrogging loyalties’ and the people they care about are exotics from abroad or the terminally peculiar at home.
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If you want to earn a living, pay down your debts, see to it your kids earn real skills in school, go about your business without being threatened by hoodlums and freaks, avoid having your earnings appropriated to finance the socially perverse projects of social workers and public sector union meatheads, spend your free time hunting or target shooting, think sexual deviance is not something to admire, and honor your ancestors and their accomplishments, the social segments which make up the Democratic Party’s donor crew despise you.
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This is nothing new. Clinton didn’t care for them either…he just made them think he did.