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This is a really good point. The left seems to have switched from supporting the working class population and fighting for equality and better living conditions
by CM30 10y ago
This is a really good point. The left seems to have switched from supporting the working class population and fighting for equality and better living conditions to basically supporting the 'wealthy college student' demographic and attacking their old supporters over identity politics.
It used to be that parties like the UK's Labour party supported the working classes (while also supporting equality and being against prejudice). Now it seems like the average left wing political party/group mostly supports the upper middle class social media user demographic, the type who think complaints about trolling on Twitter are more important than class inequality, the lack of housing or wages stagnating.
- nikdaheratik 10y agoThey've stopped doing that because it doesn't win them elections. The roots of it go back to Nixon's southern strategy to split the Democratic party based on race, but the 80s also walked back alot of the strength of unions and removed other protections due to deregulation, and the 90s were how this all got finished off with the rise of talk radio and cable news dominating the conversation on the right. There should be room for a broader party that is pro-labor, but you would have to ditch alot of the links to civil rights or make a move to pick up the social conservatives in order to bring in many of the current GOP voters. It's possible, but I think the GOP as it currently exists needs to collapse before you can lose its grip on those voters.