Tweety is pretty dense...the Democratic party did NOT leave the lower educated working class behind

[Horse with no Name]

in fact, the Democratic party does everything they can to help those people DESPITE the fact that many of them listen to Rush and Fox et al and continually vote against their interests.

He is like a fucking dog with a bone.....but the dog is much smarter.

[Proud liberal 80]

1. I just posted the same thing

[upaloopa]

2. He says that minorities and the working whites have similar issues

and should work together all the while ignoring the racism of the working whites.


Trump supporters my have everything in common with AAs and Latinos but hate trumps all that.

[Proud liberal 80]

3. Exactly

[X_Digger]

4. Well, they kinda did.. I grew up in coal country- Buchanan County, VA.

They really didn't support the UMWA, in spite of their pro-union rhetoric.

We had Democratic House Delegates come in telling us how their work on bringing more naval facilities to the tidewater region was important for the state, and that what was important for the state would help Buchanan County (somehow.. sometime.. eventually..)

We held party fund raisers, only to see that money pissed away in Arlington and Richmond. No money ever came BACK to us from the state party coffers.

I watched our state turn from blue to red in the late 70's to early 80's. Democrats gave up on Southwest Virginia. Republicans didn't take it, Democrats just turned a blind eye.

[tech3149]

5. agreed, same here in w. PA

I think someone needs to read Thomas Frank's new book Listen, Liberal.

[Proud liberal 80]

6. It was because of Reagan and lee Atwater

And the dog whistles that changed it from blue to red

[jaysunb]

7. And, it wasn't that hard to do...

I recall that Virginia was the Seat of the Confederacy....or some such shit as that.

[Skittles]

8. actually, they did

they really are clueless how the average American lives, ALL OF THEM

you really would have to have your head in the sand to not understand why people are angry; it is just mind-boggling that they think someone like Donald Trump is any kind of answer (he is VERY much part of the problem)

[X_Digger]

11. +1. n/t

[VOX]

14. Actually, he's kinda right on this one.

The white, middle-aged+ working male constitutes most of Trump's (and GOP's) base. While they still reap the benefits that Democrats have fought for, they somehow have ceased to identify with the Democratic Party. And the party hasn't engaged them in any sustained or meaningful way since the 1970s, and thus this demographic has steadily drifted rightward. They're now pretty much "lost" in most Democratic voting strategies, which target young voters, women, people of color, higher educated voters, etc.

Not saying it's right or wrong, it just is.

[JI7]

16. they left because of civil rights. they have no problem supporting republicans who supported free

trade.