🧵1/3 #middleclass#workingclass#race#gender#class#chrismurphy#davidsirota#berniesanders#Democrats#Republicans
After every election cycle ending with major Dem losses, progressive white men (and Jill Stein) emerge from the shadows to blame the Dem party for not working to attract "the" working class or middle class (they seem to use the terms interchangeably). They are so blind to implicit racism and sexism that they cannot even understand how insulting their comments are.
Although I would love to see the Dems embrace economic justice openly and explicitly, these comments reflect bigotry because every POC demographic prefers Dem candidates, even though whites do not. Among these groups are many of the poorest segments in the US. Latina and Black-women headed households are THE poorest in the country. And anyone who wants to discuss the "working class," should at least know that Black workers have the highest rate of participation in labor unions. Yet, they are totally ignored when the pseudo-Marxist white men urge Dems to focus on the working class.
Generally, POC have been critical and reliable demographics for Dems. And despite all of the chatter about Trump's performance with Blacks and Latinos, he overwhelming lost Blacks and Latinas. After the Census update and the most accurate data on voting behavior are released next year, I would not be surprised if some of these categories, including Latino men, were adjusted upwardly to reflect greater support for Harris.
@DaveBlass I used to play it with my high school friends. We’d gather rocks from the park to simulate asteroids or planets and used Micro Machines as miniatures.
As the great @levarburton reminds us, the eyes of the world are turned toward Pennsylvania. We all have the power to make a difference in this election, so we need to make our voices heard and VOTE.
Vote for freedom. Vote for democracy. Vote for Kamala Harris.