How do we avoid future authoritarians? Winning back the working class is key

[ssgbryan]

18. I live in Red State 'Murika (70% voted for Fat Nixon), so this is what I have seen.....

It is only futile if you don't actually address any of their issues.

And so far, the Democratic Party hasn't.

The only thing the Democratic Party has done in my lifetime for the working class was NAFTA. That didn't work out too well for them.

The only thing we have told them in my lifetime (56) is that:

1. Your situation is your fault. (Opiod crisis)
2. Those jobs you and your parents held were not as important to the country as the sweet, sweet money we get from the business donor class. (NAFTA)
3. Any solution we come up with, won't work with your population density. (NAFTA)
4. We will offer you retraining for low-paying jobs that don't actually exist in your location. Good luck in being a 21st century version of the Oakies from Grapes of Wrath. (NAFTA)
5. We are make up for past injustices, so your needs are at the back of the line. Time for you to learn what minorities have dealt with for the past 200 years. See: Item #1.

If you are wondering why their is nothing past NAFTA well, that is the last time the Democratic Government looked to the working class.

Before that it was TVA - As the Government, we are going to drown all of your property and businesses, pay you 10 cents on the dollar of the land value and call it good. My family never recovered from TVA.


The whole Country boy can survive ethos exists because people here have literally no other choice.