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Your analysis leaves one big question mark: the Republican Party offers them even less. Why would they vote for them..?

• rayiner 4y ago
  On economic issues, republicans support industries like oil production that undergirds good working class jobs. Republicans also tend to support small businesses, which is a realistic aspiration for working class people who might hope to own their own contracting or catering business some day. Republicans also have opposed Democratic efforts to implement racial preferences, which working class people correctly understand place them at the bottom of the hierarchy. Working class people also tend to align with republicans in terms of values. Part of that is ideology (the Bible versus Judith Butler). But part of it is more pragmatic. For example, less than half of people without a college degree think that “changing gender roles has made it easier for women to lead satisfying lives.” https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/10/18/wide-partisan-gaps-in-u-s-over-how-far-the-country-has-come-on-gender-equality https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/10/18/wide-pa.... Is that because these folks haven’t read Judith Butler? Or because Leave it to Beaver sounds pretty great in comparison to the jobs (not careers) available to them? For most people, raising a family is going to be the most fulfilling thing they ever do. Is it surprising that those folks gravitate to a party that dignifies that, instead of the one that exalts careerism and a diversity of lifestyles?