Posted on 12/06/2014 8:35:55 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
To everything there is a season and now is the time for election dissection. How do we reconcile an electorate that raised the minimum wage everywhere possible and opted for Republicans who profess not to believe in it? And what do we make of the – even for America – pathetically low turnout?
One-third of Americans struggle to make ends meet. That’s 106 million people who often don’t know how they’ll pay rent, get childcare or retire. Even in our fractious America, that’s a large group with shared interests – decent wages, reliable work hours, affordable child and health care, and the means to enable a livable last couple of decades.
Never mind the 99 percent, why don’t we see the bottom 33 percent rising up? They’re the ones with the sharpest ax to grind with our current economic policies. We know there are major structural and economic impediments to them organizing and voting, but are there other reasons they’re sitting on the political sidelines?
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
“More precisely, Dems do not care about the WHITE working class. And the white working class is noticing.”
They don’t care about a BLACK working class either! Blacks are faring terribly under the 0 administration.
The 0 terms are a repeat of the Jimmy Carter malaise, times two. It’s unfortunate that the electorate was (barely) stupid enough to elect him a second time. The good news is that we’re likely to see a long run of more conservative government, if we can get the right people through the primary process...
Cruz ‘16! :-)
And yet blacks vote 90% and more for Dems.
The white working class is more ripe for realizing that, despite the rhetoric about caring for "working people", the Dems are not their friends.
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”............
DONT EVEN DOUBT IT!
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