| pokoko said: It literally has everything to do with what I said. Do I need to do a paint-by-numbers? A) Democrats most often talk about things the working class doesn't like or isn't interested in and rarely talk about the stuff they do care about. B) The working class feels ignored and less important to the Democratic party than other groups. Democrats instead rush to talk about social issues that, again, are unpopular or irrelevant to the working class. Judis and Teixeira have drawn much criticism (including in this magazine) for advising Democratic candidates to distance themselves from “woke” provocation espoused by what the economist Thomas Piketty calls the “Brahmin Left.” But just about every person I interviewed for this article said much the same. In 2021, the Center for Working-Class Politics surveyed 2,000 working-class voters in five swing states and concluded that “‘woke,’ activist-inspired rhetoric is a liability.” --https://newrepublic.com/article/180441/joe-biden-working-class-vote-2024 c) This becomes the identity of the Democrats in the eyes of many people. I believe one of the articles I linked even said that the rare Democrats who focused on appealing to the working class did very well with that segment, which supports the idea that these are self-inflicted wounds. There is plenty of evidence to back it up. Deal with it or don't. |
Why does messaging always seem more important than actions?
