Posted on 09/27/2017 6:22:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) has said she feels like she’s an outsider in her own party due to her aversion to play into identity politics, while also noting the underreported empathy problem Democrats are facing. They don’t care about the working class. They haven’t for a long time—and it was simply because, in her opinion, Democrats stopped talking to them. Over time, the insufferable legions of the professional left, urban-based, overly educated, and condescending as hell, took over the party. They don’t care about the economic hardship in rural America. To them, these people are leeches, vestiges of the old world, and a bunch of racists.
At The Atlantic‘s Washington Ideas Forum, Dingell was asked about Hillary Clinton’s new book "What Happened," in which she said she stayed up all night and read it. She then discussed the disconnect between her party and the rest of the country, namely how Democrats were high-fiving over the special counsel appointment regarding Russia. No one cares about that. Not in Dingell’s district or elsewhere. Even in deep-blue Connecticut, Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said that his constituents aren’t talking about it.
Another thing that angers Dingell is the notion that Trump voters are racist.
“I get furious when people say all Trump voters are racist, they’re not,” she said. They’re worried about jobs and the economy, which totally went over the heads of Democrats last year.
The person conducting the interview, Bloomberg’s Margaret Carlson, also asked what can the 2020 Democratic candidates do to reach out to the white working class voters, given how the party has become elitist, bi-coastal, and more regional. Dingell simply said just listen (via NTK Network):
Dingell shared how people once thought that if they worked hard they would have a secure retirement, but that no longer is certain after the 2008 financial crisis.
“People haven’t forgotten that economic fear in their hearts and souls a decade later,” Dingell told Carlson. “Donald Trump came into Michigan and went into other states … and showed an empathy that we’d better learn how to show again.”
“[Trump] showed that he got it, he understood, he’s somebody that listens,” Dingell concluded. “That’s what Democrats have to do, learn how to show that empathy and understand how people are feeling.”
Dingell also recalled how people thought she was nuts when he said how Michigan was in play. Hillary never really ventured into the Rust Belt, which proved fatal. Her primary opponent at the time, Bernie Sanders, was in her district at least ten times. Clinton was AWOL. Her campaign eventually did venture into her area, asking the congresswoman to accompany Bill Clinton to a grocery store. And you wonder why Hillary lost Michigan in the general and the Democratic primary. Sanders not only won Michigan, but also Wisconsin. Maybe that was the massive red flag that Clintonites should have seen as a warning: get back in touch with white working class voters. It was ignored. The Rust Belt was ignored and Clinton paid the price for it. It wasn’t because of Russia, James Comey, sexism, or the media. It was because Hillary Clinton was a bad candidate, a bad campaigner, and had no message for voters other than ‘look at what Donald Trump said on Access Hollywood and oh yeah—if you support him, you’re deplorable.’
Oh, and Ms. Dingell, when you couldn't think of a single Hillary accomplishment, maybe that was a clue too.
Tucker Carlson made the point tonight that at one time in our history, calling a person a racist was a serious thing. It was a terrible indictment of their character and cause for shame. But the left, by turning it into a weapon to attack anyone they disagree with when logic and facts are not on their side, has marginalized the word to the point where it is meaningless. Many of us I’m sure are about ready to say “OK fine, if you think I’m a racist for supporting Trump, I’m a racist, I just want the kind of traditional America I grew up in and love back”.
I prefer realist.
Debbie, if you truly hate identity politics, then there’s another party that would welcome you.
We see right through you, you plastic turd.
What BS. Just shows she knows NOTHING about politics. She's singing from the same old Dem hymnal -- "We feel your pain (but we won't do a damn thing to actually make your lives better)." Governing is about making things happen, not about showing empathy and showing how you care. What a load of hogwash.
Yeah, Debbie, the key is sincerity — If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
I am going to have to disagree with you here.
I don’t want the government doing anything to make my life better.
I want the government to stop doing things that make my life harder or worse. I want the government to stop taking my money. I want the government to stop telling me and my state and my city what to do.
Me and my state are perfectly capable of figuring out what needs to be done here. I the Feds would stop taking our money we could get it done. There are very few things that we need the Feds to do. We would be better off without their interference.
With you 1,000% on that! “Making things happen” means get the GD government off our backs and out of our lives. NOT do more unconstitutional stuff. Sorry I didn’t expand that further.
Quite alright.
The Libs have so corrupted the language where government is concerned that we frequently lapse in how we say things so as to say exactly the opposite of what we mean to say.
Yup. Make them use it. Banality will kill the sting. Bring up their stupid racist tests of racism. “Yeah. I can read and write in cursive. Algebra came pretty easily to me. I make an attempt to speak proper English. I must be a racist. “
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