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Blue collar workers used to be overwhelmingly Democrats.

kevin_thibedeau 2y ago
The rich Republicans figured out the con in the 70's. Lure more non-rich people into your flock and you can eventually take control of Congress with a bloc you'd never be able to build with your own ilk. Then keep them sated by never delivering on promised reforms while blaming the other side.
- salad-tycoon 2y ago
  Those days of drawing distinctions and flaunting moral superiority are over. It’s all one uni party. Time to stop fighting each other. Much of the same criticisms can be leveled at leading democrats. What they once championed they no longer do and have radically shifted multiple core positions. The “uni parties” are covered in filth and it benefits them for us to be at each other throats like it was some sports ball game.
  - EasyMark 2y ago
    That's simply not true. The party platforms couldn't be much more diametrically opposed than they are these days. I would say almost all criticism can be laid on Republicans who have dropped all pretence of compassion for those who are poor or that don't share their values 100% and it has only intensified with MAGA.
    - sandspar 2y ago
      Republicans are the party of poor people now. Democrat support is falling everywhere except among affluent whites.
- hellgas00 2y ago
  “For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” Chuck Schumer, 2016.
int_19h 2y ago
That was back when Democrats talked about class a lot more than they did about race. (Which, to be fair, they did in part because many early trade unions were openly and blatantly racist.)
- wolverine876 2y ago
  > That was back when Democrats talked about class a lot more than they did about race. Democrats took on race as an issue in the early 1960s, leading the Republican's 'Southern Strategy'. White blue collar workers only shifted to the GOP in the last 10 years, I think, especially for Trump.
  - ars 2y ago
    To me it seemed like the Democrats changed, not the blue collar workers. A lot of it is race, Democrats started essentially calling all White people racist, i.e. blaming all white people for generational racism. Tons of people who were not racist did not appreciate that - personally I believe it's why Hillary lost, her "basket of deplorables" comment lost her a lot voters.
    - shrimp_emoji 2y ago
      At this point, to me the Democrats seem more racist than the Republicans. All you hear from the latter is oldschool liberal egalitarianism, whatever the sincerity; the former are obsessed about race and make everyone else obsessed by proxy with, for example, how they cast white guys as the antagonists in every piece of media.
      - corn13read2 2y ago
        They did start the kkk… not a shock that it’s part of their party. So glad I’m not in America!
        int_19h 2y ago
        You should probably look up what a "Dixiecrat" is, and where they (and their voters) ended up eventually.
ars 2y ago
And Republicans used to have way more college educated. Both parties seem to have swapped some people.

The rich Republicans figured out the con in the 70's. Lure more non-rich people into your flock and you can eventually take control of Congress with a bloc you'd never be able to build with your own ilk. Then keep them sated by never delivering on promised reforms while blaming the other side.

salad-tycoon 2y ago
Those days of drawing distinctions and flaunting moral superiority are over. It’s all one uni party. Time to stop fighting each other. Much of the same criticisms can be leveled at leading democrats. What they once championed they no longer do and have radically shifted multiple core positions. The “uni parties” are covered in filth and it benefits them for us to be at each other throats like it was some sports ball game.
- EasyMark 2y ago
  That's simply not true. The party platforms couldn't be much more diametrically opposed than they are these days. I would say almost all criticism can be laid on Republicans who have dropped all pretence of compassion for those who are poor or that don't share their values 100% and it has only intensified with MAGA.
  - sandspar 2y ago
    Republicans are the party of poor people now. Democrat support is falling everywhere except among affluent whites.
hellgas00 2y ago
“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” Chuck Schumer, 2016.

int_19h 2y ago

That was back when Democrats talked about class a lot more than they did about race. (Which, to be fair, they did in part because many early trade unions were openly and blatantly racist.)

wolverine876 2y ago
> That was back when Democrats talked about class a lot more than they did about race. Democrats took on race as an issue in the early 1960s, leading the Republican's 'Southern Strategy'. White blue collar workers only shifted to the GOP in the last 10 years, I think, especially for Trump.
- ars 2y ago
  To me it seemed like the Democrats changed, not the blue collar workers. A lot of it is race, Democrats started essentially calling all White people racist, i.e. blaming all white people for generational racism. Tons of people who were not racist did not appreciate that - personally I believe it's why Hillary lost, her "basket of deplorables" comment lost her a lot voters.
  - shrimp_emoji 2y ago
    At this point, to me the Democrats seem more racist than the Republicans. All you hear from the latter is oldschool liberal egalitarianism, whatever the sincerity; the former are obsessed about race and make everyone else obsessed by proxy with, for example, how they cast white guys as the antagonists in every piece of media.
    - corn13read2 2y ago
      They did start the kkk… not a shock that it’s part of their party. So glad I’m not in America!
      - int_19h 2y ago
        You should probably look up what a "Dixiecrat" is, and where they (and their voters) ended up eventually.

ars 2y ago

And Republicans used to have way more college educated. Both parties seem to have swapped some people.