How the Democrats Lost the Working Class | The theory seemed sound: Stabilize financial markets, support the poor and promote a more secure, integrated world. But blue-collar workers were left behind.

Struggling workers were becoming “an anxious class,” he told the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, two weeks after Republicans led by Newt Gingrich had gained 54 seats in the House and eight in the Senate. Society was separating into two tiers, Mr. Reich said, with “a few winners and a larger group of Americans left behind, whose anger and whose disillusionment is easily manipulated.”

“Today, the targets of that rage are immigrants and welfare mothers and government officials and gays and an ill-defined counterculture,” Mr. Reich cautioned. “But as the middle class continues to erode, who will be the targets tomorrow?”

His message went largely unheeded for 30 years, as one president after another, Republican and Democratic, led administrations into a post-Cold War global future that enriched the nation as a whole and some on the coasts to staggering levels, but left many pockets of the American heartland deindustrialized, dislocated and even depopulated.

“Today, the targets of that rage are immigrants and welfare mothers and government officials and gays and an ill-defined counterculture,” Mr. Reich cautioned. “But as the middle class continues to erode, who will be the targets tomorrow?”

Robert Reiccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Still the same old [Expletive Deleted] after all these years.

Gee Robert, difficult to worry about the future when your kids are hungry, you can’t afford gas to look for work. But that’s just those peons who vote…..

I am unaware of a single Democrat initiative that has NOT failed to achieve its stated purpose and goals. They ALL sound good, and have the noblest of intentions... and they ALL fail do what they promise, and most do the exact opposite of their stated goals. How sincere Liberals never see this (most especially 95% of black females) is beyond my comprehension.

Reich spoke in my university seminar class. One lecture was enough. He was impossible to listen to, much less to engage in discourse.

Dims didn’t leave blue collar workers behind . . . No, they actively chased them away.

...last I checked, the working-class is part of humanity, and the Democrat Party wants humanity ALL dead.

That’s the part that turns the living human being off the most.

The Maha Rushie cited an opinion piece by the NYT years ago, during Obama’s term I think.

He called the NYT the “Democrat paper of record”.

The piece was about how Democrats were not going to concentrate on blue collar workers anymore.

They would target the ultra rich, the ultra poor, and “urban hipsters”.

Don’t the NYT read their own articles?

Hmmm. The author forgot that a key part of the Democrat agenda has been to exalt any destructive, idiotic, or other loopy idea their most insane members can think of, and silence or destroy those who disagree. I’m surprised that was left out

Problem with their plan is, it’s top-down, starting with an all-knowing all-controlling federal government rather than from the bottom-up, meeting the needs of the people.

It is necessary to read Orwell to understand Democrats:

“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”

Notice there is no “fail” happening here.

It is willful and intentional.

They are evil.

Never accept any of their premises or arguments that seek to claim anything different.

support the poor and promote a more secure, integrated world.

TRANSLATION: Enlarge the permanent underclass and establish a global technocracy.

The theory seemed sound: Stabilize financial markets, support the poor and promote a more secure, integrated world.

I love how the NYT cites the dishonest pitch as if that was the actual plan.

The vicious pricks treat each other as idiots just as they do everybody else.

...promote a more secure, integrated world.

By an "integrated world" of course they mean open borders. A "more secure world" of course they mean a world under the benevolent authoritarianism of globalists.

Of course. That what you get when you try to socialize economies like the Democrat Bots have been trying to do since the Clinton years

Socialism always squeezes the economy of any nation into the haves and the have nots. It an economic movement that is built on destroying the middle class.

Mexico is a good example. A rich corrupt elite controlling everything, with a small technocrat middle class to support them, ruling over a vast mass of economically enslaved peons.