As both working class and as someone who managed local Dem campaigns when the party still relied on rank and file activists and not corporate donors, I know by long experience you're right.
It's difficult work, though. Try being in the same room as union people and small business owners; women's rights activists and members of a Catholic …
As both working class and as someone who managed local Dem campaigns when the party still relied on rank and file activists and not corporate donors, I know by long experience you're right.
It's difficult work, though. Try being in the same room as union people and small business owners; women's rights activists and members of a Catholic men's organization; farmers and environmentalists.. The difference was that when New Deal ideals still dominated the D party, we believed in and worked for the common good. In nature, the dominant mode of existence is cooperation, symbiosis, not competition. By giving up a little for others, the system as a whole thrives.
The antithesis is a trickle up corporate econ system where devastation of human and natural resources are irrelevant externalities. Something the current neolib (econ status quo) D party never acknowledges. We're not supposed to notice it was the Ds who enacted deregulation, resulting in the Wall St. frenzy causing the '08 crash. When millions lost their houses, jobs, bank accounts, and pensions. The Ds did for the suffering formerly industrial Rust Belt and rural Appalachia same as they did to the guilty Wall St. vultures--nothing!!! Yeah, the elected Ds are nice people. Sure.
Related is the D elite smug dismissal of the majority working class as a "basket of deplorables." Some of us can read, write, and think. Proof of this and evidence we're not a bunch of bigots is Les Leopold's 2024 book //Wall Street's War on Workers (How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying The Working Class and What to Do about It)//. My testimony is anecdotal; his is solid stats and years of research.
Viva Labor Day! Solidarity forever--in memory of the effective populists of the Farmer-Labor coalition.
As both working class and as someone who managed local Dem campaigns when the party still relied on rank and file activists and not corporate donors, I know by long experience you're right.
It's difficult work, though. Try being in the same room as union people and small business owners; women's rights activists and members of a Catholic men's organization; farmers and environmentalists.. The difference was that when New Deal ideals still dominated the D party, we believed in and worked for the common good. In nature, the dominant mode of existence is cooperation, symbiosis, not competition. By giving up a little for others, the system as a whole thrives.
The antithesis is a trickle up corporate econ system where devastation of human and natural resources are irrelevant externalities. Something the current neolib (econ status quo) D party never acknowledges. We're not supposed to notice it was the Ds who enacted deregulation, resulting in the Wall St. frenzy causing the '08 crash. When millions lost their houses, jobs, bank accounts, and pensions. The Ds did for the suffering formerly industrial Rust Belt and rural Appalachia same as they did to the guilty Wall St. vultures--nothing!!! Yeah, the elected Ds are nice people. Sure.
Related is the D elite smug dismissal of the majority working class as a "basket of deplorables." Some of us can read, write, and think. Proof of this and evidence we're not a bunch of bigots is Les Leopold's 2024 book //Wall Street's War on Workers (How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying The Working Class and What to Do about It)//. My testimony is anecdotal; his is solid stats and years of research.
Viva Labor Day! Solidarity forever--in memory of the effective populists of the Farmer-Labor coalition.