General Discussion

...he didn't say that the party doesn't need working class voters.

That's a sly attack on the leader and our party which so many have adopted; no matter how incongruous to the truth of what the leader said or what he's advocated and helped advance for the working class all of his career.

It's a bullshit attack that supposes republicans should be more attractive to 'working class voters, but what is really implied for the political purpose that attracts republicans is 'WHITE WORKING CLASS MALES.'

More to the point, white supremacists who are euphemistically described as the 'working class' in these political representations of what the Democrats stand for.

From where I've worked and lived all my life, BLACK WORKERS, who support Democrats in huge percentages in elections, are as 'working class' as any racist voting republican because they've been convinced some brown skinned person like me took their job.

The entire characterization is lost on me, because if it's about me, or people who look like me, it's a complete lie. Democrats are the ONLY party that's EVER supported me as a black man working in this country.

But some people work overtime to convince me that white males who have received the lion's share of benefits and jobs are the one's I should spend political and tax dollar attention on; even as that white majority is being coddled and feted; even as my own community of color is being denigrated and deliberately disadvantaged.

'Working class' in today's politics is just a euphemism for white males. We shouldn't perpetuate such speciousness to the detriment of the most vulnerable among us who don't share their whiteness.