Question re Biden and the Rust Belt.

[doompatrol39]

23. But that affected everyone

Not just the "rust belt" voters or the "white working class".

Sometimes people make it sound like there was some specific thing that happened which only affected white working class voters and not other groups, or more specifically other groups of working class citizens. But there wasn't. Shit happened, it affected everyone, but whites are the only one who seem to need to have their every insecurity pandered to.

Again, the reality of it may be that those people need to have their precious feelings preserved and pandered to in order for us to win. And maybe they only will vote for the old, straight white dude who isn't a socialist (and thus won't give "their money" to minorities). But then people need to say that instead of pulling the same bullshit that Republicans and their enablers in the media do of chalking it up to economic anxieties or "working class appeal" or whatever else when there's zero evidence whatsoever that Biden's history and his policies would be any better than any of the other candidates and in fact in many ways would be WORSE.

Yes, we do need to win voters in some key states we lost last time around. But to me it's even more insulting to the folks in those areas to assume that they are going to be so dopey as to just fall for some old folksy talk from Uncle Joe, with minimal to actually back it up.