No, the White Working Class Man Will Never Save the Democratic Party
I am so sick and tired of all this fucking shit about how
Democratic politicians have to reach out and embrace the very poisonous
snakes of the white working class men who have been trying to kill us
for decades. (No names; you motherfuckers know who you are.)
That
we have to "embrace" their "cultural values." Those would be the
"cultural values" of racism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia,
right-wing violence, domestic terrorism, greed, freakazoid religion and
stupidity.
In other words, the entire platform of the Republican Party.
We've
been here before. Whenever the repugs steal elections from the
Democratic Party, the response is always "we have to become more like
repugs!" Democratic candidates who campaign like repugs Are. Not.
Democrats. They. Are. Repugs.
And
somebody's missing from this equation. A whole lot of somebodys.
Working class African-Americans. Working class Hispanics. Working class
white women. Working class immigrants. Working class Muslims.
Working class LGBTI people.
Together, we vastly outnumber those white men who think an imbecilic game show con artist is going to bring back coal jobs.
The
repugs were able to steal the 2016 election because the Democratic
Party did not do enough to stop repugs from suppressing the vote and
preventing all those non-white, non-male, non-christian, non-straight
non-rich Democratic voters from voting.
Whining to white male repugs that we understand
their racism, misogyny, homophobia, religion and stupidity is not going
to gain a single white working class vote. And it sure as fuck is not
going to get a single suppressed Democratic voter to the polls and
voting.
Forget the working
class white man. He abandoned the Democratic Party the instant the
Democratic Party noticed that black people and brown people and female
people and gay people are human beings with rights the full equal of any
white man.
Let's work with the voters who have proven their loyalty. The voters whose rights have been stolen by the repugs. The voters who gave us President Barack Obama and thus millions of auto industry jobs, a 4.5 percent unemployment rate, hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure and oh yeah, an Affordable Care Act that has saved countless lives, hundreds of rural hospitals and their communities, and by the way Medicare and Medicaid.
Let's dance with the ones that brung us.
Working class
white men are not anyone who will prove an asset in any way to the
Democratic Party. They've abandoned us, and it's far past time that we
abandon them to the repugs who will laugh as them as they die of
trumpism.
Good riddance.
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