Posted on 07/04/2016 6:41:36 PM PDT by Hojczyk
In that painting, it’s just the people reached on landlines that admit they plan to support Donald Trump who actually do. And those Trump voters time and again are given a suspiciously similar face: white; male; blue collar. And then those less neutral descriptors: racist; sexist; uneducated. The first three are often shorthand for the second set.
The Democratic party – and by that, I mean the party gatekeepers with power to wield media influence, which worked out great for the Brexit vote – are writing off those hardcore racists as an overblown minority that is making more noise than they can translate into votes. But overlooking “regular Joe” moderate voters like the ones who filled my childhood could be our undoing.
My party has gotten cocky, and I fear that condescending mentality will lose us this election. Because for all of his divisive bluster, Trump has gotten one thing right time and again: small-town America is not doing great.
Don’t get me wrong: I sure as hell won’t be casting a ballot for Trump this November. But I have watched this primary season unfold through a different lens than my very liberal coworkers and fellow New Yorkers, who live in a world that’s largely bounced back from the recession.
Where my family lives, factories are closing. Schools don’t have enough money for teachers, and all of Barack Obama’s hope and change hasn’t done much trickling down in the last eight years. And just because the moderate voters living in these areas aren’t showing up at Trump rallies or plastering your Facebook wall with tirades about Muslims doesn’t mean they’re planning to support Obama’s heir apparent come November.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Just another schmuck picking up on the buzzwords of the day. In 2008 this person probably said "I'm a Republican but I fear lack of hope and change is overtaking the party"
Like the old saying, you get the government that you deserve. Unfortunately the rest of us who don’t deserve it also get it.
>>Really? Fear no more, it already has.<<
Become a republican and experience...elitism as well.
Hello? The 90’s called, they want their political ideology back
Ah geez, you’re still haunting me troll? Dont you have other freepers to pester than me? You;re like a fat girl who sees a Twinkie on my back and starts chasing me all over the place. ;)
I know, you’re all alone on the 4th and everyone got tired of you LOL
HaHaHaHaha.....you are correct.....
The current Democrat Party has no resemblance to the party of JFK and Hubert Humphrey. Starting with the takeover by McGovernites in the early 70s the party has lurched ever leftward and has embraced not only socialism, but anti Americanism..
If the author has learned anything from this POS president, I hope it’s socialism sucks and PC is lying.
The “Duh” moment has arrived!
She’s an elitist who thinks people who support Trump are racists and bigots, but she realizes that “elitist” sounds bad so she wants to free herself from that label by talking about having grown up in flyover country. She thinks Hillary may win in a landslide but she worries about white males who may just keep their views to themselves and vote for Trump. So she wants her party to be more careful about disguising the contempt they have for white males. It shouldn’t be hard because white males are so dumb they won’t realize they are being condescended to—at most they have gone to a state college (horrors!), not an elite university.
So she Admits Obama showered red states with fake recovery dollars so libs would believe the lies but she is worried that areas he starved of jobs - shovel ready or not - may not want 4 years of the same.
LOL! This person is not very astute concerning global politics.
Who else is she going to spend time on that is making real assessments of the current state of affairs?
>>>I’m a Democrat, but I fear the elitism overtaking the party<<<
I’m not a Democrat, but I KNOW that Communism has overtaken their Party. That is why they are Traitors to America.
The author forgot to mention “shovel ready” jobs and “Recovery Summer.” Oh wait, maybe because both were failures.
In the old days democrats cared about working Americans... but that's been over for years. Sarah Eberspacher seems to have pulled a Rip Van Winkle... the days of dems giving a damn about anyone other than their ‘victim groups’ is long gone...
Very true! And to consider that both sides of may family were Democrats. Of course, they were JFK Democrats, something that most Republicans can’t even come close to.
It’s terribly, terribly unfair that only certified lunatics can be democrats. The party should be open to ALL lunatics.
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