Posted on 02/03/2021 1:09:51 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
The longest-serving woman in Congress, Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), told The Hill in a recent interview that she struggles with a growing sense of alienation within the Democratic party as she fights for the interests of her largely working-class Midwest constituents while the Democrat party is increasingly dominated by representatives from wealthy, often coastal districts.
“They just can’t understand,” Kaptur told the outlet, referring to the difficulty some of her Democrat colleagues have in relating to the concerns of blue-collar constituents like hers.
“They can’t understand a family that sticks together because that’s what they have. Their loved ones are what they have, their little town, their home, as humble as it is—that’s what they have,” she added.
Kaptur told the outlet that she worries that the voices of congressional Democrats who represent wealthy districts are increasingly drowning out those who represent heartland districts.
“It’s been very hard for regions like mine, which have had great economic attrition, to get fair standing, in my opinion,” Kaptur said, adding that, as a Democrat who represents a working-class district, she feels like a minority within her party.
In the interview, Kaptur touched on congressional district data, which showed that 19 out 20 of the nation’s wealthiest districts are represented by Democrats.
“Several of my colleagues who are in the top ranks have said to me, ‘You know, we don’t understand your part of the country.’ And they’re very genuine,” Kaptur said. “You can’t understand what you haven’t been a part of.”
The idea that Democrats are losing touch with their blue-collar roots and are increasingly turning into the party of the elites while Republicans are on track to becoming a multiethnic working-class coalition was an oft-repeated theme in the wake of the 2020 election.
In his first remarks following the November election, in which the GOP defied expectations and made gains in the House, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the House Minority Leader, declared, “This election cycle has made one thing clear: The Republican Party is now the party of the American worker.”
The 2020 election results, in general, reinforced the view that the Republican party is poised to become a multiethnic coalition of working-class voters. In the presidential race, for instance, former President Donald Trump won the largest share of non-white voters, a traditionally Democrat demographic, of any Republican since 1960.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) commented on the fact that Trump won Zapata County, in Texas, by a margin of 52–47 percent in 2020, while he lost that same county to Hilary Clinton in 2016 by a margin of 65–32 percent.
“#Florida & the Rio Grande Valley showed the future of the GOP: A party built on a multi-ethnic multi-racial coalition of working AMERICANS,” Rubio wrote in a tweet.
Two terms for President
Two terms for Senators
Two terms for Representatives
Term limits now!
Um, yeah. It ain’t the Democrat Party it’s now the Soros/Communist Party.
“Several of my colleagues who are in the top ranks have said to me, ‘You know, we don’t understand your part of the country.’ And they’re very genuine,” Kaptur said. “You can’t understand what you haven’t been a part of.”
And the sad thing is, that her colleagues from coastal liberal areas, DON’T WANT TO UNDERSTAND her part of the country. They don’t give a blank. These liberal/leftist types want to push global warming and other pet causes, and don’t care and don’t want to understand the issues of “middle America”.
Yeah, imagine how those of us who are not even democrats feel about the alienation....
Bears repeating over and over again.
Sounds like she is at the point where she needs to have an HONEST conversation with herself about whether or not the Democrapt Party that she joined eons ago is the one that she belongs to today. Perhaps it is time for her to either resign her seat or move to the Republican side of the aisle?
Let’s see, if the R’s can land two of the three unfilled seats right now AND get 4 D’s to switch parties.
Oh, never mind.
“it’s now the Soros/Communist Party.” combined with “Keeping up with the Kardashians”
Well, she has a lot to make up for. She has voted in lockstep as all D’s do and has cause great harm to this nation. It will take more than an Act of Contrition, 3 Our Fathers and 3 Hail Marys to make up for the damage she has done in her political career.
I’m not for term limits for elected representatives. Why? As bad as it may be, they are the ONLY choice you have.
How about term limits instead on government programs and GS15 bureaucrats?
People like John Brennan at CIA, James Comey or Andrew McCabe at FBI or Jerome Powell at Federal Reserve are permanent, life-long DC swamp creatures who have incredible power, as we have seen. Did any member of the public vote for them - ever??
It’s not like Biden has any voters to worry about.
posted on 2/3/2021, 1:04:28 PM by jospehm20
So Marcy how many times have you voted for the policies that are destroying your communities?
All your life I would imagine.
Agreed.
The ‘mandarins’ in the bureaucracy are far more pernicious.
Kaptur , succinctly stated, is in the wrong party (!).
It is the Dim's and the BLM movement that wants to eliminate the nuclear family.
The urban environment is ideal for social alienation from immediate family and their influence.
When I grew up as a child,, my grandmother lived next door to my aunt and maternal great-grandmother, and they even shared a driveway.
That was how families bonded in their neighborhood; and neighbors were all known to each other, and were treated as 'courtesy aunts and uncles',
and all of their kids knew each other, and played well together.
10 wealthiest counties in the US. The four Virginia counties and Maryland County are in close proximity to....I'll give you three guesses.
And yet, I bet she would rather support the wishes of the democrat leadership than those of the people she represents in her own state.
The longest-serving woman in Congress, Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio),
She keeps a very low profile. I have never heard of her.
How did her district vote for POTUS in ‘16 and ‘20? Maybe she should switch parties.
Thanks.
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