As Ive said here more than a couple of times, traditional working class democrats are not leaning democrat anymore. Its gotten worse for democrats since trump was elected and theyve spent every minute of every day doing nothing and saying nothing but I HATE TRUMP, just now they are starting to realize. They should have told Obama that when he started his second term, the dems might not have gotten decimated.
CNN Host: Democrats Have To Start Accepting That White Working Class Voters Matter
You may not agree with everything CNN’s Fareed Zakaria says, but his op-ed in The Washington Post about the Democratic Party’s disconnect with roughly half the country is worth your time. For starters, it hits home to what many within political circles, left and right, have been saying concerning what Democrats need to do for survival: reach out to white working class voters and in doing so—reclaim pieces of rural America. For that to occur, Zakaria says the Left, which is dominated by urban elites, needs to recognize that white working class voters matter, they have issues that are of equal importance, and that they have worth in our political discourse [emphasis mine]:
It’s worth considering how much the Democratic Party has changed over the past 25 years. Bill Clinton’s party was careful to come across as moderate on many social issues. It had a middle-of-the-road position on immigration and was cautiously progressive on subjects such as gay rights. The Democrats eventually moved boldly leftward in some of these areas, such as gay rights, out of an admirable sense of principle. On others, such as immigration, they did so largely to court a growing segment of Democratic voters, a process that Peter Beinart nicely explains in the most recent Atlantic issue. But in a broader sense, the Democratic Party moved left because it became a party dominated by urban, college-educated professionals, and its social and cultural views naturally mirrored this reality.
The party’s defense of minorities and celebration of diversity are genuine and praiseworthy, but they have created great distance between itself and a wide swath of Middle America. This is a cultural gulf that cannot be bridged by advocating smarter policies on tax credits, retraining and early-childhood education. The Democrats need to talk about America’s national identity in a way that stresses the common elements that bind, not the particular ones that divide. Policies in these areas do matter. The party should take a position on immigration that is less absolutist and recognizes both the cultural and economic costs of large-scale immigration. On some of the issues surrounding sexual orientation, it can and should affirm its principles without compromise. But perhaps it is possible to show greater understanding for parts of the country that disagree. California recently enacted a travel ban that now prohibits state-funded travel to eight states with laws that — in California’s view — discriminate against LGBT people. Meanwhile, California has no problem paying for employees to travel to such havens of tolerance as China, Qatar and Russia.
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