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Most people on the left aren’t willing to talk openly and honestly about why we lost and continue to lose so much of the working class.
The answer is almost always something to the effect that it’s because they’re stupid brainwashed rubes, which is highly counterproductive.
The truth is that the elites and elite institutions in this country have utterly failed the working class in every way. The right uses this to stoke class and regional resentment while steadily pushing exploitative policies, while much of the left takes only half measures and views much of what’s important to the working class with basically open contempt.
One of the above tactics has been far more effective than the other.
Most people on the left aren’t willing to talk openly and honestly about why we lost and continue to lose so much of the working class.
The answer is almost always something to the effect that it’s because they’re stupid brainwashed rubes, which is highly counterproductive.
The truth is that the elites and elite institutions in this country have utterly failed the working class in every way. The right uses this to stoke class and regional resentment while steadily pushing exploitative policies, while much of the left takes only half measures and views much of what’s important to the working class with basically open contempt.
One of the above tactics has been far more effective than the other.