Posted on 03/05/2021 6:30:35 AM PST by SJackson
An NBC News poll released last week reflects one of the most significant political trends of the past 30 years – the realignment of blue-collar workers who’ve left the party of Planned Parenthood and Drag Queen Story Hour for the party of energy-independence, fair-trade deals and border security.
The poll shows that between 2010 and 2020, the Republican share of blue- collar votes rose from 45% to 57%. Within the same demographic, its Hispanic vote went from 23% to 36%, while its black working-class vote went from 5% to 12%.
In 1992, Bill Clinton carried 49% of counties where at least 25% of the workforce was employed in manufacturing. In 2016, Donald Trump took 95%. What used to be one of the left’s most reliable constituencies is now going the way of evangelicals in their flight from a party that’s lost both its mind and its soul.
Writing in The Detroit News on April 10, 2019, Terry Bowman (a 22- year UAW/Ford worker) charges: “While Democrats fight for policies that crush working-class communities, Republicans and our president are fighting for blue-collar jobs and traditional American values.”
The geezer in the White House is becoming a job-killing machine. On Day One, the Keystone XL-Pipeline was axed. And that’s just a down-payment on Biden’s debt to the Greenies. But, not to worry. As John Forbes Kerry assured us, unemployed pipeline workers can get good-paying jobs manufacturing solar panels – in China.
It’s infuriating the way Democrats can speak so nonchalantly about sacrificing the opportunities of others. Campaigning in 2016, the warm and lovable Hillary Clinton boasted, “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business!” This from someone who probably never lifted anything heavier than a nail file.
Under Biden’s welcome-mat policy, the Border Patrol has been ordered not to arrest illegals unless they commit multiple homicides within eyesight. He’s starting to admit the first of 25,000 “asylum” seekers, and blue-collar workers will get to pay for a process that will lead to the loss of more of their jobs.
But jobs isn’t the whole picture.
Most of the white working-class is solidly middle-American: church-going, socially conservative (pro-life, pro-marriage and pro- traditional morality). Many are gun-owners, veterans and reservists, patriotic and not embarrassed to show it and mystified by those who are. And, are you sitting down Nancy, they refuse to apologize for being white.
If a guy drives a pick-up truck with a gun-rack and a tool box in back, and an American flag decal, chances are he isn’t a community organizer who votes Democratic.
In short, workers are everything liberals have come to loathe – an animosity that’s reflected in Obama’s bitter-clingers comment, Hillary’s basket of deplorables and Biden’s dregs of society.
The Democrats have become the party of Alice-in-Wonderland social policy – the party that refuses to criticize Antifa and Black Lives Matter even as they turn our cities into barbecue pits, the party that turns a blind eye to urban riots but sees white supremacy everywhere, the party of defund the police and sanctuary cities, the party of climate-change cultists, the party of “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15,” the party that tried to take an innocuous reference God out of its 2012 platform, the party of abortion up to the moment of birth, the party of LGBTQ, and now, the party of transgenderism.
Bowman writes: “My father, a retired UAW/Ford worker, was a life-long Democrat” who voted for Trump in 2016 and now says “I don’t know the damn Democrat party anymore.” Ronald Reagan used to say he didn’t leave the Democrats; they left him.
Unlike their white-collar counterparts, blue-collar workers didn’t have an opportunity to be indoctrinated by their college professors – but Biden wants them to pay the debts of those who were. They are less likely to heed the so-called experts. They don’t get their news from The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN. They’re not afraid to voice views that get conservatives banned by Facebook and Twitter.
While the GOP is becoming the party of labor, the Democrats are firmly in the hands of coastal elitists.
Business Insider listed the billionaires who bankrolled Biden’s 2020 campaign. It reads like the Fortune 500 and includes the CEOs -- or their wives -- of Microsoft, Google, Lucasfilm, Estee Lauder, Dream Works, Hyatt, J.P. Morgan Chase, Linkedin and Comcast/Universal. Remember when the media used to whine about Republicans as the party of the super-rich?
You think they care about the guy who worries about making this month’s mortgage payment or if he’ll still have a pension when he retires? In a pig’s eye.
Since Jimmy Carter, blue-collar workers have been worked over by the Democrats. Now, they’re returning the favor. With the Republicans, they’ve found their real home.
doesn’t really matter as long as it is still OK to drop off truckloads of ballots in the middle of the night.
“Most of the white working-class is solidly middle-American: church-going, socially conservative (pro-life, pro-marriage and pro- traditional morality). Many are gun-owners, veterans and reservists, patriotic and not embarrassed to show it and mystified by those who are.”
It’s really not any more complicated than that. Trump is a throwback to a time when the elites were like everybody else, they just had more money. It’s not like that anymore. A one percenter and a middle-class man had a lot more in common in 1965 than they do now.
Deplorables. Gun and God clingers. Dems don’t really want their vote.
Trump gained share in virtually every category and still lost.
Unfortunately, the GOPe doesn’t want their votes either. How long can so many tens of millions of people go without real political representation? 2022 should be pretty telling.
“Trump ... still lost.”
He didn’t lose.
I left off the sarcasm tag by mistake.
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He didn’t lose
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What? Why isn’t he living in the WH now?
What kind of winning is that? He either
won or he lost we don’t have ties like in
sports, etc.
Trump may not have lost a canvass of actual ballots cast, but he definitely lost to the billionaires’ system.
The working class has, over the last several decades, freed their minds from the garbage taught in public schools and propagandized in the media, and figured out that:
a) A robust economy is necessary to them having a job, getting raises and having a secure retirement;
b) The Democrat Party, with its distinct (and increasing) bias to the Left (or even outright Communism/Socialism) is not the party that understands economics;
c) The Democrat Party has fully caved to the immigration lobby in an effort to attain and maintain permanent power, and the influx of millions of unskilled or semi-skilled immigrants has completely undercut the ability of blue collar workers to get decent-paying jobs;
d) The globalists of both parties are not working for them - on the contrary, they are working diligently to destroy them and their hopes for a better future, and lining their pockets with foreign money to boot; and
e) The Republican Party does understand economics, and though it has its share of globalists, it certainly says and does more to benefit American citizens and workers before or instead of foreigners. Also, the Republicans are not all rich, cigar-chomping, country club members intent upon keeping labor poor, despite the image created in the media over more than a century at the behest of the Democrat Party.
IOW, the average blue collar worker isn’t stupid enough to swallow the Dem and media image of the two parties, because the reality is not just incredibly different, it is quite plain and open for anyone to see.
“Trump gained share in virtually every category and still lost.”
There, fixed it for you.
Yet the AFL-CIO was at the heart of the steal.
Union members need to have a come to Jesus meeting with their union reps.
The party that refuses to criticize Antifa and Black Lives Matter comes with a huge price tag.
Socialism in the last link in the chain of thought.
Actually, “mass graves” are the last link in the chain of thought.
The Dem party is the party of homosexuals, soy boys, the woke, domineering women, no humor, tyrannical, and depressed.
Are people waking up to it? One can only hope.
It’s socialism that drives them to that point it has never failed.
Lunch Box Donald (it's a meme but should be on a box)
Which beats the snot out of my old Hot Wheels and Six Million Dollar Man boxes fer sure.
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