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I just... I'm trying my best to bite my tongue but idk this passes overwhelmingly and SNAP reform gets defeated with all but 10 Dems voting against... seems to give the lie to "the Democratic party is obsessed with identity issues and doesn't care about class" is all I'm saying.https://twitter.com/samswey/status/997635077902389248 …
People get REAL confused bc minority groups get a lot of the rhetoric and lip service. White issues---rich and poor alike---get a lot more of the legislative support bc, again, minorities have a lot of cultural power, but whites still have disproportionate political power.
and if you go back into the history it looks awful similar. How many Dems supported the 94 crime bill? Damn near all of them. How many Dems supported welfare reform? Too damn many, but a hell of a lot fewer than supported the crime bill!
and I guess the question is: why does that matter/how does that affect how we move going forward? And the answer is, it just means we really do STILL have to work to keep minority issues heavy on Democrats' brains. It means maybe don't begrudge us our little cultural power.
bc that little cultural power could probably stop a bill like this from passing a democrat-controlled legislature... but that is a RECENT thing and could easily be reversed if minority issues lose salience in the party.
I suppose I'm fine with "the Democratic party doesn't care enough about class issues." That's true! The way of thinking about class, wealth, and poverty that has dominated the Democratic party since at least Clinton is wrong. But when folks wanna start making comparisons...
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