Life in America 😭😭😭

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Sira6o6oNH0

 

The white working class knows the American project isn’t working. Here’s why that will never matter to them

Du Bois understood that the racial order required by capitalism could only be maintained if white elites successfully manipulated the white masses against their class alliances with other races. They needed to be goaded into loyalty to a white supremacist planter class that struggled to keep its chokehold on the postwar south. Convincing poor white farmers to side with the wealthy land owners they otherwise begrudged required posing newly enfranchised African Americans as a threat to even the lowest white man’s standing...

 https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/ng-interactive/2026/jun/21/american-racial-anxiety-white-working-class-rights 

 

Family Farms and Small Businesses are the "E" In DEI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj1rxI-d5wg

To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Could Slash Benefits for Poor, Working Class — ProPublica

Other proposals would eliminate tax breaks for families with children. 

Currently, parents can get a tax credit of up to $2,100 for child care expenses. The House Republican plan floats the elimination of that break. The cut is estimated to save $55 billion over a decade… 

Another proposal in the list of options takes aim squarely at parents raising children on their own. The provision would eliminate the "head of household" filing status to collect almost $200 billion more in taxes over a decade from single parents and other adults caring for dependents on their own…

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-tax-cuts-congress-republicans-plan-slash-benefits

Food Banks See Rising Hunger Among Working Americans: CityLab Daily - Bloomberg

Food banks across the US are seeing a post-pandemic wave of demand driven by working people caught in America's cost-of-living crunch. In Flagstaff, Arizona, a pantry that served 127,000 meals in all of 2015 now serves 40,000 meals a month. In the Washington, DC, metro region, the Capital Area Food Bank distributed 5 million more meals than it did the previous fiscal year...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-01-27/food-banks-see-rising-hunger-among-working-americans-citylab-daily 

 

Biden and Harris gave the working class plenty before Trump's election win

It simply isn't true that Democrats abandoned the working class...

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/biden-harris-working-class-vote-trump-election-rcna179186

SEIU to spend $200 million to get working class voters to back Biden, Democrats - The Washington Post

The significant spending by SEIU reflects growing concern about Biden and Democrats' ability to draw working-class Black, Latino and Asian American voters...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/13/seiu-biden-democrats-election/

 

Sanders warns Biden: address working-class fears or risk losing to demagogue | US elections 2024 | The Guardian

"We've got to see the White House move more aggressively on healthcare, on housing, on tax reform, on the high cost of prescription drugs," Sanders said. "If we can get the president to move in that direction, he will win; if not, he's going to lose."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/13/sanders-warns-biden-working-class-voters-presidential-election

We Went To a Trump Rally: What We Heard Will Shock You

They sound like Democrats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCyZHB7NdPE

Today's white working-class young men who turn to racist violence are part of a long, sad American history

Throughout U.S. history, white men's anxieties over their manhood and social class help explain many violent attacks on Black people, whom the perpetrators blame for denying them their rightful privileges…

https://theconversation.com/todays-white-working-class-young-men-who-turn-to-racist-violence-are-part-of-a-long-sad-american-history-214450

Opinion | How MAGA Corrupts the Culture of the White Working Class - The New York Times

Now, I ask you, as the Republican Party self-consciously tries to become the party of the American working class, which set of values does it model and espouse? Sheepdog or wolf? When Donald Trump said, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" he was cultivating not healthy loyalty but rather destructive defiance, and that defiance has withstood some of the worst scandals and misconduct in the history of the presidency. 

When Senator Ted Cruz took the stage at a conservative conference and declared, "I'm Ted Cruz, and my pronoun is 'kiss my ass,' " he wasn't being direct or plain-spoken. He was crass and demeaning. When Senator Josh Hawley raised his fist in support of the Capitol mob before the Jan. 6 attack, he was saluting the wolves. 

But here's what's particularly perverse: Each of the individuals I just mentioned is a member of the upper echelon of the American elite...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/opinion/trump-white-working-class-maga.html

Sanders Blasts Corporations 'Spending Millions' to Defeat Worker Champion Julie Su

"Let's be honest. The debate over Ms. Su has nothing to do with her qualifications," Sanders (I-Vt.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, said during the panel's hearing. "No one can tell us with a straight face that Ms. Su is unqualified for this position. She is exceptionally well qualified."

"No. This debate has everything to do with the fact that Julie Su is a champion of the working class who will stand up against the forces of corporate greed," Sanders continued…https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-corporations-julie-su

Ted Cruz Worries Working Class Might 'Get Off the Bong' and Vote After Student Debt Relief

Educator Chris Williams tweeted: "Apparently myself, a public school teacher who joined the Peace Corps out of college, and currently with over 20k in student loans after graduating in 2009, is a slacker according to Ted Cruz. Good to know."…

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/26/ted-cruz-worries-working-class-might-get-bong-and-vote-after-student-debt-relief

Bernie Sanders says Democrats are failing: ‘The party has turned its back on the working class’

"I think it's absolutely important that we do a major course correction," Sanders continued. "It's important that we have the guts to take on the very powerful corporate interests that have an unbelievably powerful hold on the economy of this country."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/10/bernie-sanders-democrats-failing-working-class-interview

Opinion | New developments puncture the GOP’s ‘working-class’ makeover scam - The Washington Post

… The ultimate irony here is that a handful of Republicans have proposed serious pro-working-class policies, only to be rebuffed by most of their party...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/03/gop-working-class-scam-infrastructure-child-tax-credit/

The Republican Rebrand, Exposed | Robert Reich

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich debunks the Republican Party's phony attempt to rebrand itself as the "party of the working class."
https://youtu.be/sfxMCC9EKiU

How Corporations Crush the Working Class | Robert Reich

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich breaks down how power has shifted from labor unions to corporate giants over the last few decades, resulting in the rich getting richer at the expense of the working class.
https://youtu.be/-L7XZfdI3To

Opinion | No, the GOP and the Dems Haven’t Actually Swapped Brains - POLITICO

... The current GOP is less interested in the messy business of governing than it is in performative indignation and the memes that play well in social media and on cable television. Memes, it shouldn't need to be said, are not ideas and don't require a consistent set of principles. The result is a kind of free-floating nihilism, as the GOP chases narratives that stir outrage, generate clicks, shake loose grassroots contributions, and play well on Newsmax and Fox...

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/04/11/republican-party-brain-swap-anti-corporate-480622

A Look At Lesser-Known Parts Of The COVID Relief Bill, From Farming To Health Care (On Point)

The Biden administration's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. We talk about the lesser-known aspects of the plan, from farming to health care.

Interview: 

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/03/12/lesser-known-biden-american-rescue-plan-farming-health-care

Democrats battle for soul of party as Biden win masks alarming failures | Democrats | The Guardian

... "The Democratic party envisions itself as the party of working people but it doesn't feel that way to a lot of working people. And the Democratic party needs to figure that out."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/30/democrats-party-joe-biden-working-class-americans