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In reply to the discussion: I don't know if I'm a devil or an angel around here right now. [View all]betsuni
(27,271 posts)71. The Tobin doth protest too much, you guys.
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A majority of working class people vote for Democrats, and have for a long time.
Garrett78
Nov 2017
#50
The way you said it suggested you think Dem social issues are "petty vendettas".
moriah
Nov 2017
#45
Where you dreamed that shit up from is a mystery to me. I am a member of the working class.
Squinch
Nov 2017
#39
Working class white men did give YOU Trump(R). As did the rest of white men and women.
Squinch
Nov 2017
#78
Are you not getting that DUers consider the one-third of white working class males who voted...
brush
Nov 2017
#7
You call that hostile? I call it trying to get through to you that you're misreading things here...
brush
Nov 2017
#17
I want to add what I see as an apathy for some to not vote or discuss issues.................
Jim Beard
Nov 2017
#120
Here's the piece that you don't seem to get. Concentrating on raising up the working class
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#10
No, it didn't. The Social Security Act excluded about half the jobs in the American economy.
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#32
I'm not trashing SS. I'm saying that the benefits of the New Deal weren't shared equally.
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#40
everyones boat does get lifted..perhaps not equally but lifted indeed
questionseverything
Nov 2017
#62
That's not enough. Women and minorities won't be satisfied with being the afterthought anymore.nt
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#64
ussually its the women and minorities that care most about hungry children
questionseverything
Nov 2017
#66
And I'm telling you that economic issues can't be prioritized "front and center"
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#68
You can support that premise with evidence rather than bumper stickers, yes?
LanternWaste
Nov 2017
#132
It makes a lot more sense for working class whites to get with the times, which means understanding
WhiskeyGrinder
Nov 2017
#11
The .1% love the peons fighting among themselves. It keeps the focus off of the increasing income
jalan48
Nov 2017
#63
Republicans don't have solutions for WWC issues beside feel-good-now-racism & religion un-freedom,
Madam45for2923
Nov 2017
#87
The media helped to promulgate "the big lie" in 2016 and continues to this day.
lapucelle
Nov 2017
#90
Ima guess all of us annoying gay people, women, and of course, the Afam community.
cwydro
Nov 2017
#113
Tobin S. If you could put a new plank in the DNC platform, what would it be?
crosinski
Nov 2017
#110