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In reply to the discussion: You guys can't keep doing this. Working class white man here. [View all]Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)One of the backbone policies of the Democratic Party is and always has been labor and labor rights. We ARE the labor party.
Right from our own party platform:
We're the ones trying to raise the wages, their's is giving tax cuts to the rich.
Our's is protecting workers rights. There's is protecting business rights (which is really protecting businesses from workers rights)
Ours is helping workers share in corporate profits.
Ours is expanding access to affordable housing.
Ours is protecting and expanding social security.
And, these are just in the very top, first sections of our platform.. above EVERYTHING else.
https://www.democrats.org/party-platform
I get that many of them don't like the way many talk about them, but ffs, when they keep voting against their own best interests it's hard not to look at those in that live in that demographic, and in those economic realities and still vote the way they do as complete dumb-asses.
I do think one of our biggest mistakes in 2016, as a party, was focusing on why Trump and the repubs were bad, and less on why we're good and what we bring to their tables. We need to make our platform better known.