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user-inactivated  ·  3169 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The smug style in American liberalism

    And that's the 50-year history of the Republican Party - convincing people to scapegoat someone else so they don't notice you're stealing their livelihood.

Which is easy to do if you're the only party talking to them. I mostly agree, he overstates his point, be he's right that the Democratic party stopped paying attention to working class white people when it realized corporations could raise more money than labor unions. If neither party is representing your interests, but one of them is at least talking to you...

I mean, if the Republicans had run with this instead of disowning it, I would have to at least consider them come election time.