2016 election day is sneaking closer with every tick of the clock…..soon the inevitable analysis of who will vote for who and why will be on the evening news…..maybe some will have an opinion on what happened to Democrats………….
I remember the election of 1980 (yep, I am that damn old) when the white working class abandoned the Democratic Party to vote for Reagan…..there has been a debate ever since in what happened to make this possible….until someone has an adequate reason for the desertion than can be little chance of a solution…..
Bubba Clinton did not bring them back in any numbers and Obama definitely did not make any in-roads in claiming the white working class voter for the Dems……
I have heard one explanation as …..anger. But anger over what?
I have read many articles and posts about this phenom and have yet to see what I would call anything accurate……and then I read a piece by Robt Reich that made a few excellent points to help explain just what the Hell had happened……..(read on if you are interested)……
The former secretary of labor traces the rise of the Trump conservative, from George Wallace to Barack Obama
Source: Robert Reich: Democrats have abandoned the white working class – Salon.com
Who among the 2016 candidates do you see anyone reaching these voters?
Good one…
listen to this…….
https://youtu.be/rrJpG_Z-AEU via @YouTube…..
Things will get a lot worse re: the refugee problem…
Does not bear thinking about.
Yep….and it will not help if the morons are elected….chuq
Well,my concern is that neocon Clinton…
As gigoid once said..
.’Someone will bump off Trump’
grin
The guys are all angry because there is not a Man Cave in every home and they’ve never figured out how to deal with women who act on and know their own minds. And they do not know how to be anything other than a 19th century goofball?
Well said….I wish I could say that it is old that feels that way…but in my neck of the woods it is all ages…sad…..chuq