Good piece and we need a lot more like this. The Reagan "revolution" succeeded in driving a wedge between working people and the really poor. It is a tough mindset to overcome; that people on food stamps and receiving any form of public assistance are simply lazy and have their hands in the pockets of hard-working folks. We need more org…
Good piece and we need a lot more like this. The Reagan "revolution" succeeded in driving a wedge between working people and the really poor. It is a tough mindset to overcome; that people on food stamps and receiving any form of public assistance are simply lazy and have their hands in the pockets of hard-working folks. We need more organizing campaigns directed to this demographic -- working class white people living in small towns and rural areas. The Dem Party makes very little effort to win over this constituency. They flock to Trump because he says the system is rigged against them. He's right.
In Bernie's campaigns he also talked about the system being rigged against working people - but he placed the blame where it belongs, as Hamilton has presented in this piece. Nothing is easy, but if the Dem Party would spend more $ on organizers who understand and like spending time with working people rather than TV spots and other propaganda telling us what a danger Trump is we would have a lot more progress.
respectfully, the vast majority of "democrats" are doing the same job as the gop of misdirecting working class rage away from the wealthy people at the top, as hamilton pointed out in the above article. bernie is a rare exception. DNC leadership as it is will NEVER willingly put their money behind a candidate like him or warren
I don't disagree with this comment. Some entity/organization/party/movement should be putting priority into organizing working-class small town rural people. And some of that is always going on. But a meaningful campaign to win over a chunk of the working-class constituency that has embraced Trumpism is going to take money. And the Dem Party has money.
Good piece and we need a lot more like this. The Reagan "revolution" succeeded in driving a wedge between working people and the really poor. It is a tough mindset to overcome; that people on food stamps and receiving any form of public assistance are simply lazy and have their hands in the pockets of hard-working folks. We need more organizing campaigns directed to this demographic -- working class white people living in small towns and rural areas. The Dem Party makes very little effort to win over this constituency. They flock to Trump because he says the system is rigged against them. He's right.
In Bernie's campaigns he also talked about the system being rigged against working people - but he placed the blame where it belongs, as Hamilton has presented in this piece. Nothing is easy, but if the Dem Party would spend more $ on organizers who understand and like spending time with working people rather than TV spots and other propaganda telling us what a danger Trump is we would have a lot more progress.
respectfully, the vast majority of "democrats" are doing the same job as the gop of misdirecting working class rage away from the wealthy people at the top, as hamilton pointed out in the above article. bernie is a rare exception. DNC leadership as it is will NEVER willingly put their money behind a candidate like him or warren
I don't disagree with this comment. Some entity/organization/party/movement should be putting priority into organizing working-class small town rural people. And some of that is always going on. But a meaningful campaign to win over a chunk of the working-class constituency that has embraced Trumpism is going to take money. And the Dem Party has money.