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.
Democrats represent the needs of white liberal ‘elites’ and their pet brown and black grievance groups that prop them up...
Republicans represent the working men and women of all colors and creeds...
I don’t mind that but staggering the seats would be good. A new house every four years might get a little crazy.
She was a very vocal opponent of NAFTA, GATT and the other trade deals back in the 90s. She and Trump probably agreed more often than not, but party loyalty is more important to these people.
And how is that going to pass congress
Rush pointed out years ago that Democrats were moving their constituency from unions and working class people to the ultra wealthy and urban hipsters. (From a NY Times editorial)
That’s where Trump came in and snatched up the middle and working class regardless of race.
Country Club Republicans still haven’t figured out it’s not 1980 anymore.
Kaptur has been a hardcore Marxist-leaning POS for decades. She’s only out to save her “phony, baloney job”. Hope her now out-of-work constituents put her out of a job, permanently. BITCH!
She should’ve changed parties
Kaptur scored a 93% leftist rating in 2019 and 96% leftist rating in 2018. For someone who claims to be “alienated” from her Stalinazi Satanist party, her voting record is lock-step moonbat.
I don’t trust ANYTHING most politicians say. They will say anything for their own gain.
Talking About White Privilege Can Reduce Liberals’ Sympathy for Poor White People
New research finds that social liberals who read about the phenomenon are subsequently less forgiving toward poor whites.
https://psmag.com/news/talking-about-white-privilege-can-reduce-liberal-sympathy-for-poor-white-people
..I’ll give you three guesses.
1. Bimini
2. Timbuktu
2. D. C.
It’s like Willie Sutton — you rob banks because that’s where the money is. You move close to DC because you want that money and you don’t care how you get it.
The the SES bureaucracy gets worse.. no thank you
Toledo is a Union town with Jeep, the old Owens Corning, Libbey, Owens, Ford, Champion Spark Plug and Doehler Jervis. She’s been the Congressman since the mid 70’s Her strength was in the old neighborhoods. Most of the good union jobs are long gone thanks to her and the Dem policies. Toledo has been in decline for decades. Like other cities dying, run by Dems for Dems.
She needs to find four more democrat congresscritters who are unhappy with how far to the left the democrat party has gone and switch parties. That would put the Republicans in control of the House and kick Nancy to the curb.
That’s exactly why the Founding Fathers established a constitutional republic of states.
Like the GOPe before them, the Democrats have become a party of elites for elites.
She’s not wrong...
Gee, what a hero. They’ll push her out like they did Feinstein in favor of AOC types.
Never heard of her.....
TOTALLY agree...
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