Poll finds blue collar workers optimistic about their jobs, dour about politics

The Washington Examiner ^ | August 29, 2018 | Salena Zito

[2ndDivisionVet]

A new Harris Poll released this morning of more than 1,000 blue-collar Americans undermines the conventional wisdom that such workers are unsatisfied with their job and their future in their fields.

A majority of the workers said they would recommend their jobs to friends and family members as something that has value and virtue in their lives and in their communities.

The survey also shows 70 percent of blue-collar workers maintain a deep distrust of elected officials. The pattern: positivity for their lives and livelihoods and negativity toward national politics.

The poll was commissioned by Express Employment, an Oklahoma City based nationwide staffing company that sends out 110,000 paychecks every week in 49 states.

Bill Stoller, CEO of Express Employment, said this poll is critical in understanding his workforce and their attitudes about the work they do throughout the country and their general feeling about the country. “The thing that will probably be most surprising to people who do not work in blue-collar jobs is the optimism among workers,” he said....

[Rapscallion]

Dour about politics because education has failed them so badly they do not even know how to use politics to succeed.

[Bryanw92]

>>A new Harris Poll released this morning of more than 1,000 blue-collar Americans undermines the conventional wisdom that such workers are unsatisfied with their job and their future in their fields.

This is the sort of thing that has Wall St and the Progs fuming. They need workers desperate and dissatisfied and clamoring for things like “Universal” health care and UBI to make the population more controllable and the work force “competitive” with the Third World.

[Reverend Wright]

” By a small margin, they think Republicans do a better job of helping blue collar Americans than Democrats, 39 percent vs. 36 percent. Nearly one in four (24 percent) believe neither party does a better job helping blue collar America.”

No wonder Democrats are so in favour of illegal immigration and amnesty.

Their former base has deserted them.

[nwrep]

Dour about politics because education has failed them so badly they do not even know how to use politics to succeed.

So true. Some people do not have the education or the curiosity to develop in themselves the sort of "soft skills" needed to succeed in the marketplace.

These "soft skills" include how to interact with different types of people, how to size up people, how to tailor your message to your audience, how to persuade, how to use influence over authority, and so on. These "soft skills" are otherwise called "politics".

[jmacusa]

The Marxist/progressives(Democrats) have come to realize most Americans have abandoned them. They either are unable or unwilling to understand that they have demonized and alienated the base that once supported them. The mostly white and black middle class blue collar Americans whose jobs they exported and mocked their values. Since 72 and McGovern's failed bid for office the Democrats gave themselves over to socialist, Marxists and identity politics. They have become a vicious , highly partisan, totalitarian, intolerant and violent mob. The have declared war on conservatives, Christianity, Judaism and America itself. If this doesn't change, and I fear it isn't going to, there will be a civil war and people are going to get hurt.Even killed.

[vannrox]

“Poll finds blue collar workers optimistic about their jobs, dour about politics”

Ya think? Duh!