A new manifesto by the nonprofit American Compass capably identifies the problems facing the working class but stumbles on the solutions—especially labor unions.

A new manifesto by the nonprofit American Compass capably identifies the problems facing the working class but stumbles on the solutions—especially labor unions.

  • @VoterFrogEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    Welfare doesn’t mean not working. Huge numbers of working class folks are on, or have been on, welfare. The fact that you equate welfare with not working is exactly the kind of open disdain that I’m talking about. And it’s not just welfare, if you’ve spent any time with conservatives you’ve seen the kind of disdain they have for anybody with a low-level job. Calling them simpletons who refuse to educate themselves is often the nicest thing they have to say about those workers.

    Republicans have nothing to offer these people except decades of failed trickle down economic policy. But if they feel that voting Republican is the right move because they can’t stand the thought that anyone besides themselves will benefit from government assistance, well then that’s quite on-brand for the party.

    • @lynnyEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Again, you seem to think working class Americans want to be on welfare. You talk to me like I’m not a working class American. You are doing exactly what I said, talking down from a point of willful ignorance.

      You think any of us in the Midwest are going to forget what the democrats did to Bernie in 2016? At least republicans pretend to care about the working class, even though they’re just as guilty as democrats at shipping or American manufacturing to China and Southeast Asia.

      Working class people do not want to be on welfare, and thinking that is a carrot on a stick that you can dangle is dehumanizing. This is exactly why people like Trump and DeSantis are considered serious candidates. Coastals do not think of middle Americans as human.