White Working Class

[SHRED]

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Povided the Democrats don't "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory".
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Bringing the White Working Class Into the Progressive Majority
By Robert Borosage
April 10th, 2008 - 9:00pm ET

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Progressives have to prove that government can work. That it can make health care and college affordable. That it can help generate good jobs here at home. That it can curb the Wall Street casino and insure that increased profits and productivity are widely shared. We have to take reinventing government seriously, not as a slogan or a gimmick, but as a fundamental project of reform.

Two political conclusions arise from this analysis. First, progressives have a monumental stake in rebuilding the strength of the union movement. White working-class voters vote two to one Republican if they are not in unions. They vote two to one Democratic if they are union members.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that is why Karl Rove and the Bush Administration have joined the business drive to crush the right to organize, and have done what they could to weaken unions and to convince Americans that unions are part of the past.

We have a great stake in turning that around, not simply by passing the Employee Free Choice Act, which is the centerpiece of reviving the right to organize, but by turning government at all levels into an ally of unions. “FDR wants you to join a union,” they used to argue in the 1930s. We have to make that slogan true for governors, mayors, legislators and the next president.

Full article:
http://ourfuture.org/blog-entry/bringng-white-working-class-progressive-majority


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[lumberjack_jeff]

1. K&R.

[midnight]

2. Why the HELL should we have to prove that healthcare is

something that has to be payed for when big banks, and big corporations can't prove they can function with out assistance?

[jody]

4. Agree, unfettered capitalism is "heads corporations win & tails working class loses". n/t

[jody]

3. The "White Working Class" with its diverse regional and local preferences is the key to presidential

elections.

Rove showed how it can be fractionated over divisive, polarizing issues encouraging extensive non-voting because they are fed up with both parties and giving Repugs a small but adequate edge at the ballot box.

Dems can win if we take divisive issues off the table, e.g. the right to keep and bear arms (RKBA) which SCOTUS will almost certainly rule is an individual right in D.C. v. Heller next June.

BO and HC can preempt Repugs by promising voters to veto every bill that comes to the White House that infringes on the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms for self-defense.

No excuses for past statements or votes against RKBA, no apologies for association with gun-grabbers, just a simple promise to veto anti-RKBA bills.

That would take one divisive issue off the table and add about 5% more or less votes to a Dem candidate.

Do that with a few more divisive issues and our Dem candidate could create a landslide victory for our party next November.

[SHRED]

5. I agree