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371. I would love the party to return to representing the working class

Last edited Fri May 31, 2013, 05:14 AM - Edit history (1)

Since the DLC Reagan emulations began, the party began shifting it's support from it's constituency to it's corporate and financial industry election financiers.

Passing bank deregulation, and negotiating "Free trade" deals to serve up cheap labor abroad at the expense of most of our factory work and their unions with them. Now middle class blue collar, which was once an extremely large class has been reduced to "the working poor" - service labor fodder, forced to work 4 jobs between a couple just to earn a place in a rental after losing the ability to afford homes, quit a change in a lot of neighborhoods.

This was IMO the biggest wholesale sellout of what was once a core constituency of the party, now they sneer at us from their neo-liberal limos and spit, "who else ya gonna vote for, Republicans?" My answer of late has been, "you are the same on outsourcing and corporate raping of the commons, you crow about replacing jobs lost in a crash caused by Clinton era bank deregulation with part time minimum wage new ones paying less and wonder why we don't kiss your feet".

Our party rewards criminal bankers rather than convict them, and every few months asks us to give more of our SS trust fund via stealth cuts to be sacrificed on the altar of continuing to spend our money on assassinations, a bloated military and perpetual tax evasion by the corporations and the obesely wealthy. So far our outrage has squashed these yearly attempts. but the grand bargaining tactic remains ever on the DLC back burner.

The blue collar has no party in the US, some of us are underground continuing a Quixotic battle to regain even the smallest plank in our traditional home, pathetic yes, but when we finally give up, the unhonored coalition with the blue collar workers will fully collapse and the whole country will suffer for the betrayal of what was once, and could have remained, the largest and most faithful of the Democratic constituencies. A party can't live on Bankers and hedge fund managers alone and our party leadership has forgotten that.