Re: 2020 Democrat Challengers Part II: There Can Be Only One
Not necessarily, if we have candidates supporting higher min wages, unions, and things like Medicare for All (not some ridiculous piece-mealed medicare for some with a deductible and copays that's means tested and still allows private insurance to gouge the hell out of everyone and deny peoples' claims) then working whites can be won too. Not all of them mind you but a significant number of the ones that have been lost. If these people could be won in the past they can be won now, we just can't keep propping up neo-liberals who are unwilling to fight for any of these things and then act shocked when they lose congress and like half the state legislatures.
It doesn't really matter that we disagree on whether they'll come back since we agree on what the Democratic party should stand for. A radical swing to the left and a complete overhaul of our party in the direction of economic justice.
But I do not believe any voter in this country actually thinks "well, I'd go Democratic but the Republicans have such a good record on the needs of the working class." Even Republican voters realize that the Republican party does not give a sh-t about the working class. They just have been brainwashed into thinking that if they ever get anything to meet their needs that's TEH SOCIALISMS!!!1!1 They've been taught self-hatred and to polish the knobs of the rich who might give them something. They literally think, "Well, I know it sounds like a good idea to have greater economic equality but if we do that it's like fattening foods and will be bad for us in the long run. A disciplined austerity may be uncomfortable but I am wise and strong enough to defer my present comfort for a more long-lasting and stable prosperity."
That message is the greatest bullsh-t the .01% ever put over on the working class and they laugh themselves to sleep over it.
Of course it's just the serving-serving propaganda of an Idle Inheritor Leisure Class doing everything it can to become even richer off everyone else's labor. But it sounds good -- particularly to a group who has grown up on stories about virtue rewarded in heaven.
Anybody who actually is swayed by substantive policy like minimum wage, workers rights, benefits, regulation of finance, medical care, etc. has been a Democrat for decades. But the white working class has run
the other way. They don't oppose us -- they
hate us.
We should stand behind far more radical efforts to help the working class in this country, but we'll never get any support from the white ones -- they'll fight us all the way. They're f-cked up in the head.
