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Another Big Switch - Democrats USED To Be For The Working Man - UNIONS? - Now, They're Just Elite Assholes
Democrats' Arrogance Toward Oliver Anthony and the Working Class Will Doom Them in 2024
(WHY do you hate this man and his song? I thought Democrat/Communists were FOR the working man? Don't you remember the Commie Unions you fuckers espoused for decades?)
Nicholas Kristof, the long-time liberal New York Times columnist, has a warning for his fellow Democrats: dismiss Oliver Anthony at your peril.
"Have Democrats retreated so far from their workingman roots that their knee- jerk impulse is to dump on a blue-collar guy who highlights "folks in the street, ain't got nothin" to eat?'" Kristof asks.
(LOL... I wrote my premise before I even started copying this article. His song is not "about" the current administration... it's about ALL administrations... although, since Trump had the economy and jobs market performing better than anyone in a VERY long time, we CAN exclude his administration. THAT'S what bugs you haters and Trump Derangement Syndrome "victims" the most... Trump's successes as a President, AS A REPUBLICAN)
Anthony has been called a "racist" by some on the left, but it's the general disdain that the left holds for working-class Americans that will cost them at the ballot box next year. And as Kristof has pointed out, "Harvard professor Michael Sandel has noted, one of the last acceptable prejudices is disdain for the less educated."
(this doesn't scare the Democrats, for they have plans to cheat... again)
This disdain manifests itself throughout our culture. Hollywood's portrayal of working-class whites as ignorant bigots is standard fare. Racists, misogynists, violent - their portrayal of these Americans breeds a contempt that's hard to disguise.
And then Democrats wonder why they're losing the votes of these people?
Kristof says that Anthony's lament isn't anti-liberal. It's anti-elites.
He makes the valid point that these disparate social crises reflect a broader pathology that is holding America back. "People talk about epidemics in this country, and the homelessness and the drug use and the lack of skilled labor and the suicide rates," he said. "Those aren't problems; those are symptoms of a bigger universal problem. ... We don't talk about it enough."
The problem for the left is that while Anthony may be disparaging conservative elites as much as the left, the populist right has embraced his message. And that has gone over the head of most on the left.
Liberals are properly attentive to racial injustice but have a blind spot about class, driven in part by unfair stereotypes that members of the white working class are invariably bigots. In fact, you can't think seriously about inequality in America without contemplating race, but that's also true of class. And as the Harvard professor Michael Sandel has noted, one of the last acceptable prejudices is disdain for the less educated.
Anthony sounded some conservative themes in his song, including complaining about taxes - and that led to some liberal jeers. But as Noah Smith observed in his economics blog, a Virginian earning the median factory wage pays a total tax rate of more than 24 percent -higher than one estimate of the rate paid by the 400 richest Americans.
Related: This New Song Should Scare the Bejeezus Out of the Left
In fact, most of Anthony's song was about themes that Donald Trump has been talking about since 2016. The question is why these populist themes have been sneered at by the left. Anthony's lyrics could have been uttered by the patron saint of leftism, Franklin Roosevelt.
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Democrats' Long Goodbye To The Working Class - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/democrats-long-goodbye-to- the-working-class/672016/
6 Nov 2022 - November 6, 2022 Saved Stories As we move into the endgame of the 2022 election, the Democrats face a familiar problem. America's historical party of the working class keeps losing...
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What's Behind Democrats' Struggle With Working-Class Voters - The New ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/briefing/democrats-election-working-class- voters.html
4 Nov 2021 - Democrats often lament that so many working-class Americans vote against their own economic interests, by supporting Republicans who try to cut health care programs, school funding and...
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Democrats Are Ditching Class, And It's Costing Them Working-Class Voters
https://jacobin.com/2022/02/class-dealignment-biden-democratic-party-working- class
02.17.2022 United States Party Politics Democrats Are Ditching Class, and It's Costing Them Working-Class Voters By Julian Jacobs Neither mainstream American political party has a compelling message for working-class voters. As a result, voters are starting to vote in line with their cultural opinions, not their class interests.
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The Democrats' Working-Class Deficit | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-working-class-deficit/
5 Aug 2022 - But a more long-term difficulty was revealed in a recent New York Times -Siena College poll: Though they enjoy a 20-point advantage over Republicans among white, college-educated voters,...
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Why Democratic Appeals To The 'Working Class' Are Unlikely To Work
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-democratic-appeals-to-the-working- class-are-unlikely-to-work/
6 Jul 2022 - Jul. 6, 2022, at 6:00 AM Democrats like John Fetterman in Pennsylvania are making strong appeals to working-class voters that Republicans have won in recent years, but these appeals are still...
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The Democrats' Working Class Problem Intensifies - Aei
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-democrats-working-class-problem-intensifies/
24 Oct 2022 - In the 2012 election, the working class-college gap was a mere 4 points; Obama carried college-educated voters by 6 points, but also carried working class voters by 2 points. By 2020, Democrats ...
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What Republicans Know (And Democrats Don't) About The White Working Class
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/06/24/democrats-white-working- class-00041807
24 Jun 2022 - What Republicans Know (and Democrats Don't) About the White Working Class There's an important social and economic divide that drives working-class whites that progressive elites mostly...
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This May Be Democrats' Last Chance To Regain Working-Class Whites - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/10/politics/democrats-blue-collar-voters/index.html
10 Aug 2021 - The follow-on $3.5 trillion human capital budget bill Democrats plan to advance this week offers working-class families increased subsidies for health insurance and child care, guaranteed paid ...
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How Democrats Can Win Workers - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/briefing/democrats-elections-poll.html
13 Jun 2023 - June 13, 2023. About 60 percent of U.S. voters do not have a four-year college degree, and they live disproportionately in swing states. As a result, these voters - often described as the ...
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Democrats' Long Goodbye To The Working Class - MSN
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-e2-80-99-long-goodbye-to-the- working-class/ar-AA13 - Nlga
Democrats' Long Goodbye to the Working Class A s we move into the endgame of the 2022 election, the Democrats face a familiar problem. America's historical party of the working class...
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White Liberals More Likely To Have A Mental Health Condition
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/22/white-liberals-more-likely- have-mental-health-cond/
Apr 22, 2021 - Sixty-two percent of Whites who classify themselves as "very liberal" or "liberal" have been told by a doctor they have a mental health condition, as compared to 26% of conservatives and...
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Vice Admits Liberal Men are Weaker, Less Attractive than...
https://phillipschneider.com/vice-admits-liberal-men-are-weaker-less- attractive-than-conservatives/
Vice Admits Liberal Men are Weaker, Less Attractive than Conservatives By Phillip Schneider on August 11, 2020 ( Leave a comment ) While the flames of the culture war rage, even far-left media publication Vice admits that liberal men are weaker and less competent than conservatives.
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White Liberals More Likely to Have Mental Health Problems... - Newsmax
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/white-liberals-mental-health- study/2021/04/20/id/1018293/
The Pew Study, Which The Washington Free Beacon notes was published last year but only gained attention in a recent article, showed that white liberals of all ages were more likely to be diagnosed with a mental health condition than moderates or conservatives, with the disparity particularly pronounced among those aged 18-29, according to evie...
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TRUTH: Why Liberals Are WEAKER Than Conservatives
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/truth-liberals-weaker-conservatives
TRUTH: Why Liberals Are WEAKER Than Conservatives. Speaking of weak liberals, who can't even stand the sight of history: Texas Restaurant Defending Controversial Sign Some Are Calling Racist - by Robert Gehl. A Texas restaurant is under attack on social media for what many are calling its racist décor. The neon sign hung at Cook's Garage...
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Study: Young White Liberals More Likely to Have Mental Health Problems
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/22/study-young-white-liberals- more-likely-to-have-mental-health-problems/
Apr 22, 2021 - When sex and age were factors, 56.3 percent of white women between the ages of 18 and 29 and who labeled themselves as "liberal," said they had been given a mental health diagnosis, compared to 27.3 percent of conservatives in the same categories and 28.4 percent of moderates:
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Shocker: Study Shows Physically Weak Men Tend to be Liberal
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2017/05/26/shocker-study-shows-physically- weak-men-tend-to-be-liberal-n72373
Shocker: Study Shows Physically Weak Men Tend to be Liberal. In news that will surprise absolutely no one, a new study reveals that girly men are more likely to favor socialist policies. The study, conducted by researchers at Brunel University London, looked at the height, weight, physical strength, and bicep circumference of 171 men, along...
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Science Proves That Liberals Are Crazier Than Conservatives
https://freedomwire.com/liberals-are-crazy/
Well, I recently came across a fantastic article about another study of Liberals - except this time, instead of focusing on the weak males, it focuses on the average Liberal woman instead. A Ph.D. candidate at Georgia State University has analyzed the data out of a recent Pew Research Center poll, and the results are amazing.
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Liberalism Breeds Soft, Weak, Young "Men" - Louder With...
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/liberalism-breeds-soft-weak-young-men
by Steven Crowder I know some of you think when I say "liberalism breeds weak, fat men," that I'm merely politicizing an issue to be polarizing. I assure you that's not the case. Allow me five hundred words to make my case. I was a chubby kid. Strike that, I was a jiggly shrimp. Skinny-fat. The kind of kid who was relatively thin, yet managed to ma
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62% of "liberal" or very "liberal" whites have a mental health condition
https://www.independentsentinel.com/62-of-liberal-or-very-liberal-whites-have- a-mental-health-condition/
According to a Pew Research Center survey, 62% percent of Whites who classify themselves as "very liberal" or "liberal" has been told by a doctor they have a mental health condition. Only 26% of conservatives and 20% of moderates have been told they have such a condition, the study found.
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Why Liberals Are So Physically Monstrous And Repulsive...
https://www.returnofkings.com/118536/why-liberals-are-so-physically-monstrous- and-repulsive
Liberals are not born uglier. They voluntarily remain ugly or become uglier to fit a narrative. "Appearance is ideology". It takes a special kind of hypocrisy to call something that is universally seen as ugly "beautiful" and vice-versa.
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Pew Study: White Liberals Disproportionately Suffer From Mental Illness...
https://wibc.com/108211/pew-study-white-liberals-disproportionately-suffer- from-mental-illness/
White women, ages 18-29, who identified as liberal were given a mental health diagnosis from medical professionals at a rate of 56.3%, as compared to 28.4% in moderates and 27.3% in conservatives. Zach Goldberg, a Ph.D. candidate in political science, consolidated the study's info in a set of visuals and posted them to a thread on Twitter.
SCIENCE: White Libs More Likely To Have Mental Health Problems
https://freebeacon.com/politics/white-libs-mental-health/
Within this demographic, 34 percent of liberals reported having mental health problems, compared with 22 percent of moderates and 16 percent of conservatives. Zach Goldberg, the doctoral...
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Science says liberals, not conservatives, are psychotic
https://nypost.com/2016/06/09/science-says-liberal-beliefs-are-linked-to- pyschotic-traits/
Jun 9, 2016 Turns out liberals are the real authoritarians. A political-science journal that published an oft-cited study claiming conservatives were more likely to show traits associated with "psychoticism"...
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12 Reasons Why Liberals And Progressives Will Always Be...
https://www.returnofkings.com/100887/12-reasons-why-liberals-and-progressives- will-always-be-losers
Liberal men however are inexcusable, they are either effeminate enough to be emotionally manipulated or are weak and yielding to social pressures. December 10, 2016 Take The Red Pill Don't forget that Liberal men are usually the offspring of domineering feminists or divorced feminists and sometimes single mothers.
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White Liberals Twice as Likely to be Diagnosed with Psychological Problems
https://www.hennessysview.com/p/psychologic-disorders-white-liberals
Nearly 1 in 2 (45.9%) of white liberals have been diagnosed with mental health disorders. White liberals of all ages are more than twice as likely as conservatives of any age to suffer from mental health disorders. White liberals are almost twice as likely as non-white liberals to be diagnosed with mental health problems.
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6 Reasons Why Liberalism IS A Mental Disorder (LOL) - The Political Insider
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/6-reasons-why-liberalism-can-be-considered-a- mental-disorder/
In 2005, Michael Savage famously wrote a book titled, Liberalism is a Mental Disorder, the subject of which is self-explanatory. Additionally, Dr. Lyle Rossiter, a board-certified clinical psychologist, wrote a book in which he diagnosed the ideology of the left as a tangible mental illness.
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Personality Traits, Mental Illness, and Ideology
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody- else/202103/personality-traits-mental-illness-and-ideology
specifically, surveys on the " big five " traits of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience have found that people identifying as politically...
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Study claims over 50% of liberal women under 30 have mental health...
https://theliberal.ie/study-claims-over-50-of-liberal-women-under-30-have- mental-health-issues-men-and-women-with-liberal-views-more-likely-to-be- mentally-unwell/
Study claims over 50% of liberal women under 30 have mental health issues, men and women with liberal views more likely to be mentally unwell April 24, 2021 - 12:01 Gerard Clarke Irish News
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Men With Weak Upper Bodies Tend to Be Liberal - Physically Strong Men Tend to Be Conservative
Men who are physically strong are more likely to take a right wing political stance, while weaker men are inclined to support the welfare state, according to a new study.
Researchers discovered political motivations may have evolutionary links to physical strength.
Men's upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution, according to the research.
The principal investigators - psychological scientists Michael Bang Petersen, of Aarhus University in Denmark, and Daniel Sznycer, of the University of California in the U.S., believe that the link may reflect psychological traits that evolved in response to our early ancestral environments and continue to influence behavior today.
Professor Petersen said: 'While many think of politics as a modern phenomenon, it has - in a sense - always been with our species.'
In the days of our early ancestors, decisions about the distribution of resources were not made in courthouses or legislative offices, but through shows of strength.
With this in mind, Professor Petersen and Professor Sznycer hypothesized that upper-body strength - a proxy for the ability to physically defend or acquire resources - would predict men's opinions about the redistribution of wealth.
diagnosed the ideology of the left as a tangible mental illness.
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