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The alternative is voting for people who openly look down on you as simpletons who refuse to educate themselves. All the GOP needs to do is pretend to care, not that hard.
Compared to the Republican party who calls anyone on welfare or minimum wage lazy parasites? Who, to quote one prominent Republican senator and former presidential nominee, refuse to take responsibility for their own lives? Yeah, sure, it's the Democrats showing them open disdain for their economic situation. Hell, I'm almost certain that if I heard someone actually call a low wage worker a "simpleton who refuses to educate themselves" that it would be a conservative saying it, lmao.
Most working class people don't care about welfare because part of being working class is... working. The fact coastal democrats can't understand this is why "flyovers" don't buy into "progressive" policies.
The only two options are supporting people who want us to do things like pay off student debt and house illegal immigrants or republicans. It's an easy choice.
Welfare doesn't mean not working. Huge numbers of working class folks are on, or have been on, welfare. The fact that you equate welfare with not working is exactly the kind of open disdain that I'm talking about. And it's not just welfare, if you've spent any time with conservatives you've seen the kind of disdain they have for anybody with a low-level job. Calling them simpletons who refuse to educate themselves is often the nicest thing they have to say about those workers.
Republicans have nothing to offer these people except decades of failed trickle down economic policy. But if they feel that voting Republican is the right move because they can't stand the thought that anyone besides themselves will benefit from government assistance, well then that's quite on-brand for the party.
Again, you seem to think working class Americans want to be on welfare. You talk to me like I'm not a working class American. You are doing exactly what I said, talking down from a point of willful ignorance.
You think any of us in the Midwest are going to forget what the democrats did to Bernie in 2016? At least republicans pretend to care about the working class, even though they're just as guilty as democrats at shipping or American manufacturing to China and Southeast Asia.
Working class people do not want to be on welfare, and thinking that is a carrot on a stick that you can dangle is dehumanizing. This is exactly why people like Trump and DeSantis are considered serious candidates. Coastals do not think of middle Americans as human.