The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The white working class wants jobs. They don't want to be stuck trying to make ends meet with part-time work and government assistance. They want a good paying job that they can take pride in. The type of job that has fled America thanks to the Left.
Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.
In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.
But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.
A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery.
Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'
I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.
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