Re:Decades of Air Pollution Undermine the Immune System
by et-al on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @07:40PM
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Well there's also the basic issue of voting for a candidate that claims to provide job security by keeping certain industries (e.g. mining coal) running. A paycheck to put food on the table tomorrow is more important than avoiding the chance of black lung five years from now.
How many software engineers are doing mental gymnastics to justify adtech so they can afford to live in the SF Bay Area?
Re:Decades of Air Pollution Undermine the Immune System
by ch4s3 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:08PM
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> At one point in the early to mid-1900s most of the working class was united politically
Working class white people were in the Democratic Party… mostly. This was because of the New Deal which was very pro white labor, and also pushed women, children, blacks, and immigrants out of the labor market.
The parties were slowly realigning after the new deal until the civil rights act finally cemented the realignment.
Reading the annual party platforms from about 1910 to roughly 1964 is fascinating.
Re:Decades of Air Pollution Undermine the Immune System
by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:13PM
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What?
I don't think anyone in the US is pro-pollution. There are people who are against whatever the people they don't like are for, so if one side is for regulations controlling pollution, then by gosh they're against it.
At one point in the early to mid-1900s most of the working class was united politically in one party against the ownership class. Sometime around the Civil Rights Era, the two party system in the US executed a maneuver which split the working class vote against itself by pitting working class prejudices against working class self-interest. One party is the party of the ownership class, and this party throws red meat to the working class prejudices, while the other party espouses policies that benefit the working class economically while supporting socially progressive policies that the broad sections of the working class hold in disdain.
As a result we have big chunks of the working class enthusiastically voting against things that obviously serve them, like the right to clean air.