NYT: Pulling Democrats Back to Its the Economy, Stupid

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6. Most people are not bothered by promoting cultural issues and defending equality

for all people. However, if the main focus is on things that the majority of people are not impacted by or cannot relate to then Democrats are at risk of losing them. That is what has happened with working class white voters. They aren't a minority race so that focus doesn't impact them one way or the other. Only a few would fall into the LGBT group, so that doesn't impact them personally. They aren't immigrants or of a religious minority, so that doesn't impact them. Many of them live in rural areas and are not seeing the same environmental problems seen in larger areas, so that doesn't hit home. Guns are important but Democrats are consistently painted as gun grabbers, so that's a reason to consider the other side. Democrats do call for raising the minimum wage, which is great for people who actually HAVE jobs...but all those people who DON'T, well...raising the wage of nothing is still nothing. They need JOBS. Create some online government jobs, get high speed internet in those areas and train these people to work from home. Give incentives to companies to hire people in those regions. Come up with a damn plan that actually impacts them TOO. It doesn't have to be ONLY them...but when you focus mostly on cultural issues instead of things that help EVERYONE your appeal begins to shrink.