03-22-2023, 07:43 PM
(03-22-2023, 07:22 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: What does that even mean, anymore? For example, when I was a child, the Democrat party was the party of the working class. Now, it feels like the Democrat party is the one for the non-working, government check collecting, and 'looking to come into America for the free stuff' crowd. What gives? They gotta do something about that image toward working class America.
Well, in this case it means she left the Democratic party.
As for the general point of your post, I don't disagree. However, most people don't necessarily realize that what caused them to no longer be of the working class was a shift in a conservative direction on economic issues. With the movement of the party to the right on many things that occurred during the Clinton era, a culture war was waged because that was the battleground that could create the most division since the two parties became so similar on fiscal policies as they both embraced neoliberal tendencies.
What I will say is that a strong social safety net is one of the most pro-working class things we can do in this country. By making it so that any worker does not live in fear of losing their insurance or trying to figure out how to provide for their family it takes power away from the corporations and managers. It allows a worker to have more agency in negotiations over their value and tell their bosses to shove it if conditions are too bad. By dismantling the welfare system as has been done since the Clinton administration it takes power away from the working class and puts it in the hand of the elites in this country.
Your view towards the welfare system/social safety net are a direct result of the propaganda war waged by the corporate elites to convince the workers to vote against their own self-interests. They want you to let them keep their power and crush any entrepreneurial spirit, and dismantling the social safety net that was erected by the progressive politicians in the first half of the twentieth century is doing just that.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
