Nomination of Perez and Trump Election

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Will be tough for dems to break out of their identity politics box. Campaigning for white voters in the Midwest is apparently racist now.

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It is going to be tough....but the votes are there and labor is up for grabs...for the GOP to get labor in their corner will mean many traditional conservatives are going to have to look elsewhere for a party.

Your point is valid though...the Democrats have paid a lot of lip service to labor over the years while really working hard on ideas like men in skirts pissing in the ladies room...meanwhile for 40 years or there about working people, both union and non-union, have seen their wages stagnate and their jobs dissapear...and the Democrats have done almost nothing....in fact they have whined about right to work laws making it hard to organize when the movement was started at a time when it was illegal to belong to a union and in some places would mean a sound beating if not being killed.

And here is something that will scare the shite out of the establishment on both sides....labor doesn't give a tinkers damn about identity politics and race...black folks are accustomed to working side by side with white racists...it is nothing new to them....what all working people care most about is having a job that allows them to provide for their family and to do so with some dignity intact....men in skirts pissing in the ladies room is merely a distraction...if you offered the staunchest blue collar opponent to that man being legally able to piss in the women's a securer job than he currently has making more money if he would forget about that issue most would do so in a heartbeat...the same is true of a BLM activist...offer that person solid secure middle class life that they aren't in constant fear of losing and they will forget all about BLM in most cases....and this is a fact that capital understands and can't allow to establish itself...

I have worked on organizing campaigns when I was a young hot head labor leader....I have heard capital tell their white workers that if they organize black folks will be their boss....and I am only 52 years old...this was in the mid 1980's for fricks sake...capital simply must keep labor at odds with one another....but Donald Trump fricked around and kicked the lid off that can of worms IF labor wants it kicked off...the racist, sexist shite that Trump says and is accused of saying is nothing new to anyone...we have all heard it before and knew that people felt and talked that way.. and it doesn't matter if we have a steady income and aren't in danger of living under a bridge....

Conservatives have certain principles they live by and the current Democratic Party does not meet those principles. Much more likely for dems to flip repub than vice versa.