White Working Class And Middle Class Right To Be Frustrated, As Are All Working People, But If You Try To Address Issues You Might Get Called A Socialist By Some
I read a few days ago that white working class and middle class voters are deserting the Democratic Party for 2010 and may vote strongly Republican in the upcoming midterm elections.
I can’t recall where I read this and it does not matter. I suspect you’ll read the same point many times between now and November.
White working class folks are right in that they are being screwed in many ways and that bailouts for banks and big financial institutions are helping the already wealthy. Working people of all races would be right to feel this way. The fates of all working people are connected.
And yet, when you try to give some of these folks health insurance, or if you propose a large government federal jobs program, many of these same people would call you a socialist.
Do these hard working people think the private sector is going to treat them fairly?
It is worthwhile to discuss who may be getting unfair special treatment from the government in the form of bailouts.
It might be also be so that without the bailouts, as odious as they’ve been, we might be in a depression today. A depression for the poor and working class even more severe than the one we are already experiencing.
At heart, People need to decide if the focus of their lives is going to be progress or resentment.
If people are going to be resentful and blame their problems on immigrants and whoever else—I’m not sure what I can say.
If people are going to move ahead and care about each other, then we will make progress.
Working people need to fight together as allies.
4 Comments »
Leave a Reply
Welcome To Texas Liberal
Texas Liberal is a blog of politics and political history.
My name is Neil Aquino. Here is my profile.
I can be reached at naa618@att.net.
Additional focuses of the blog are books, art, poetry, personal relationships and, also, sea life and marine mammals.
( The picture above is of the Houston Ship Channel. A narrow channel can lead to a wide sea.)
The signature post of this blog is the Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. This list is the best of it’s kind on the web.
Another good post is my reciting the words to the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts on Galveston Island, Texas as a ship passes behind.
I live in Houston, Texas and I do sometimes write about political issues in Houston and in Texas.
I also often write about my former hometown of Cincinnati, and about the great beach city of Galveston, Texas.
I define liberalism as a role for government in the economy to help make life more fair, and a broad acceptance of people regardless of who they are.
This is why it says “All People Matter” at the top of the blog.
A blog grows one reader at a time. If you like what you read here, please consider forwarding the link.
Texas Liberal began regular posting on July 25, 2006.
I also blog at the Houston Chronicle as one of eight featured political bloggers, and on Where’s The Outrage? which posts out of North Carolina.
Thanks for reading Texas Liberal.
Recent Comments
Global Voices- Peru: New Collectible Coin
- Double Suicide Car Bombings in Niger, 23 Killed
- Locusts Invade Madagascar Regions after Cyclone
- Discover Somalia Blog Hopes to Promote Somalia and Its People
- Free Speech and South Korea's Child Porn Law
- Video: Mapping North Korea
- Bahamas: Haitians are our Brothers
- Update on Colombia Peace Process
White working-class folks have only themselves to blame for getting screwed by this system. They make up the majority of this country and have consistently supported the economic system that has led America to this point of absolute corporate control. Without their complicity, we would not now be in this mess. And by the way, I’m white too.
White people have ran and controlled this country and have ran it into the ground. It started to go down hill with Reagan and have gotten worse every year. If Stupid white people want to go back to the party of NO they will seal the death of the middle class once and for all.
It’s not that surprising. White working class people have been voting against their better economic interests over the course of the entire history of this country. Racial resentment has been the key in getting white working class people to vote for politicians and policies that benefit the affluent, under the guise that either one day they too will be the affluent benefactors and to prevent the “other people” (otherwise known as people of color) from receiving benefits.
I feel all these comments have merit.