“The Democrats gave up on the working class 40 years ago” - Noam Chomsky tells #newsnightpic.twitter.com/B1cjWoi2jD
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By which he means white christian working class. bc appeals to white and Christian supremacy don't work on POC and non-Christians
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and dems didn't give up on WWC, they saw that WWC was taking cultural appears over policy, so they gave them Bill Clinton.
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who appealed to them culturally and created policy to favor capitalists. Like Reagan.
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Yes, Dems as a party moved away from class politics. But only because for 12 solid years, America chose culture wars over class politics.
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They're politicians, what do you expect them to do? At a certain point, if you wanna lead the people, you gotta let the ppl lead you.
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blaming the Dems and having only a surface level reading of how racism and 'cultural anxiety' operate will yield a picture as incomplete...
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as an analysis of US politics that reduces class to "don't cut entitlements."
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