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Conservatives Aren’t Serious About Empowering the Working Class (newrepublic.com)

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A new manifesto by the nonprofit American Compass capably identifies the problems facing the working class but stumbles on the solutions—especially labor unions.

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[–] lynny 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.