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Those who voted for Trump couldn't have made a worse decision/choice to address their ongoing problems!!
Opinion | Are You Still Wondering Why Workers Voted for Trump? | Common Dreams
"The frustration, the resentment, the anger about the rigged system was building long before Donald Trump came on the scene."
@notwhatwethink another fine piece of journalism trying to explain why the "working class" now votes for billionaires, criminals, and misogynists... You guessed it: It's all the Democrats' fault.
Dems are not left enough and have abandoned the "working class". That's why the poor now vote for the same people that have lied to them for decades about trickle down economics, moved trillions of dollars from the bottom of the economy to the top.
Trading freedom, affordable care, unions, and justice for climate breakdown, hatred, and feeling superior simply because they are white Americans by birth...
It doesn't matter that Biden openly supporting unions, the military, democracy or that his policies have set up the US with an economy that's the envy of all other nations and actually creating millions of jobs... At least the "working class" showed it to the liberal elite regardless of the consequences regardless of the root of their misery ...
Read, if you must:
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-workers-voted-trump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fliberal
@RulesBuster There has been a lot written about the "Working Class", but since most of it was written by fairly well off middle-class people that had it pretty safe, their conclusions ended up with the "Chirpy Working Class" as a way of making them feel better. "Well, they're HAPPY living in poverty and without any prospects, so why try to change them?" @notwhatwethink
@RulesBuster Excellent points. Biden was much better than anything we have seen out of the democratic party for a long time. Yet the Dems, having leaped into bed with the traditional supporters of the GOP in exchange for donations, have compromised their pro-worker status in exchange for money. First, the GOP undermined/marginalized/decimated unions, which were the traditional source of Dem funding, making it all the easier for Clinton and the "new" neoliberal embracing dems to slowly become the GOP-lite. Then those dems sabotaged Bernie Sanders's chances at being the nominee and then were shocked when so many voters chose Trump, the faux-populist, worker's candidate.
So much of what we've been seeing goes back to that I think. From stacking the Supreme Court and other federal courts, focusing on state elections and then gerrymandering, creating a robust, "conservative" media like Fox News and rightwing radio, starving public education and pushing through Citizens United/other campaign finance reform sabotage, the uber-wealthy/GOP have been playing a long, well thought out strategy to undermine democracy and capture the minds and hearts of the people who traditionally supported the Dems. Whether it's low-information voters or highly misinformed voters, they work them with all the money they need to run rings around the Dems.
It is complex and multivariable. In a nutshell, I think it boils down to the emotionally immature and highly insecure, psychopathic, narcissistic, Machiavellian, greedy, and power-hungry, doing whatever they can to get what they most want and feel they need, at the expense of the rest of us.
From the summary, the article seems about as cogent as the woman I heard interviewed on NPR in November who voted for Trump "because we have to punish the Democratic party."
To me, that translates to: "I'm going to eat rat poison because the other choice is a stale half loaf."
@Jam123 @n1xnx @RulesBuster
Propaganda works, even on you
@RulesBuster @notwhatwethink I'd be cautious about the idea that 'all other nations' are envious of the US. Other nations have free healthcare (not 'affordable'), don't treat the justice system as a way to create free labour and have meaningful targets for addressing climate change.
Neither Dems nor Reps have fixed anything for the working classes in the last 40 years, because they're two sides of the same neoliberal coin. Trump is not, and people have responded to that. Terrifying as that is.
@toychicken @notwhatwethink you are right that not all nations envy the US, however, the strong economy and record low unemployment top all G20 nations... Even considering the fight against the looming #ClimateBreakdown, under Biden the US has passed unmatched initiatives investing heavily into infrastructure and energy transition... While, again you are right that more has been done in the last 50 years for billionaires than for the Working Class, equating a Democratic Congress and Presidency with a Democratic one is clearly untrue. From the Affordable Care Act, to raising the federal minimum wage (on federal contracts via Executive Order) to openly supporting Unions and creating millions of jobs, Democratic administrations have done more for American workers the last 16 years than any Republican President over the last 60 years.
Republicans are clearly not going to help the Working Class, which they apparently do very much want to believe.
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