Re:Why America’s Railroads Refuse to Give Their Workers Paid...
by lamontcg on Friday December 02, 2022 @03:13PM
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> Nobody sane will believe them
Those blue collar Reagan Democrats that you're talking about are the ones that believe that. Same people more or less.
That is why Trump did well, he appeared to them to be a pro-worker Republican in the 2016 campaign and they voted for him.
While anti-communism may have been more impactful in the 70s, the Democrats being solid pro-big-business for the past 30 years has convinced a lot of people to vote Republican since they'll get low taxes and the freedom to do whatever they want personally. You may claim they're not sane or they're stupid, but that doesn't win their votes, and they're not interested in long-winded explanations of what Democrats are providing for them at the margins while yelling at them that they're racist/sexist/homophobic/etc.
If the Democrats were more pro-labor across the board and the message was simply "here is universal health care / child care / college and strong labor regulations for everyone" then there would be a real blue wave.
Those blue collar Reagan Democrats that you're talking about are the ones that believe that. Same people more or less.
That is why Trump did well, he appeared to them to be a pro-worker Republican in the 2016 campaign and they voted for him.
While anti-communism may have been more impactful in the 70s, the Democrats being solid pro-big-business for the past 30 years has convinced a lot of people to vote Republican since they'll get low taxes and the freedom to do whatever they want personally. You may claim they're not sane or they're stupid, but that doesn't win their votes, and they're not interested in long-winded explanations of what Democrats are providing for them at the margins while yelling at them that they're racist/sexist/homophobic/etc.
If the Democrats were more pro-labor across the board and the message was simply "here is universal health care / child care / college and strong labor regulations for everyone" then there would be a real blue wave.