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WellDarn

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8. May I suggest that calling
Fri May 26, 2017, 02:10 PM
May 2017

economically anxious whites anything other than "working class" is almost indefensible. Everything you just said is absolutely true except that. That's why this is do frustrating.

Why is there such an aversion to calling these people what they are? Is it, as I suggested, because people want us to move to the right to attract suburban voters. Is it leftover resentment from the primaries (where, btw, even though Bernie ran as a champion of the working class, a majority also voted for Hillary Clinton)? I just don't get it.

There is a core of poor white FIRC (fucking ignorant racist - not going to chance an alert but you can guess) who are beyond hope but the majority of working class are solid Democrats and they are still with us, the suburban whites we went after in 1992 and 1996 are not and never will be unless we abandon every gain we made under Obama and go back to some really heinous policies.


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