• HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Why do you think the Democratic party, once well known as the party of the working class, no longer holds that distinction?

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      18 hours ago

      because the republican party has split the lower and middle classes with fear mongering and emotionally charged cultural wedge issues. e.g. abortion, gun control, “war on christianity”, immigration, vaccine “freedom”, etc etc.

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        19 hours ago

        Election results say it doesn’t. Because they’ve alienated a huge majority of the working class. Because blue collar workers overwhelmingly vote against the Democratic party in the US.

        You can call them all uneducated buffoons all you want, but in doing so, you are only proving my point that the Democratic Party has alienated them totally.

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          19 hours ago

          Blue collar workers overwhelmingly bought Reagans plastic coated flag-waving bullshit and started voting against their interests consistently. By the time Fox News and talk radio rolled around they were completely fucking brainwashed. Still are today.

          I don’t see how calling them undereducated buffoons is an argument for or against whether the Democrats have alienated them either way.

          And for the record, they were only too happy to vote for flag waving white Jesus over the future of themselves or the country. They alienated themselves.

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            12 hours ago

            Tell me again what the voter turnout percentage was?

            The vast majority of us are so used to our voices not being heard that we don’t even bother voting. It doesn’t change anything.

            You keep talking about how they voted “for” this and that, without even understanding that most people in the USA didn’t vote for anything at all.

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              11 hours ago

              Sure, I’ll do a simple web search for you.

              It was 64%.
              The most since 1908
              So, the “most people in the USA didn’t vote for anything” is incorrect. Most registered voters did (if you’re including infants and the deceased, well that changes the math a little bit).

              And if you didn’t vote, you get what you get. And what you get is chaos and incompetence. Excellent plan, non-voters.