it's the blairite strategy assume the working class are guaranteed and campaign to the middle class. it worked for a while but eventually the working class no longer felt the labour party represented them in large part because it didn't anymore
And then Labour got used to gleefully punching down on the working class. Calling them all sorts of ugly names, getting caught on camera doing it, and making barely concealed apologies through clenched teeth that fooled nobody. Right up until 2019 when the working class revolted and voted Conservative. And the reaction from Labour? A "my God what have I done" moment followed by deep introspection and change back into a party that represents working class interests? Hell no. The Labour reaction was fury that they had been betrayed.
i always find it amusing how the party is called "labour" and seems to be very much against the thing they are named for. "democrat" and "republican" are vague enough to mean whatever but i'm surprised they haven't just changed their name by now because there has got to be some dissonance everytime it's said out loud.
like when they went all anti-union recently. it's like you fuckers have a party literally named for the working class.
'Republican' did have a very brief period of meaning something back before and during the civil war. There was a push for the federal government to be a grand republic or whatever.
At the risk of doing great man history, that all died with Thaddeus :chaddeus: Stevens and the failure to commit to reconstruction, like everything else good about the party.
The libs believe they can just run as far right as possible because everyone to their left must vote for them.
it's the blairite strategy assume the working class are guaranteed and campaign to the middle class. it worked for a while but eventually the working class no longer felt the labour party represented them in large part because it didn't anymore
it was classic Blairism sell tomorrow for today
And then Labour got used to gleefully punching down on the working class. Calling them all sorts of ugly names, getting caught on camera doing it, and making barely concealed apologies through clenched teeth that fooled nobody. Right up until 2019 when the working class revolted and voted Conservative. And the reaction from Labour? A "my God what have I done" moment followed by deep introspection and change back into a party that represents working class interests? Hell no. The Labour reaction was fury that they had been betrayed.
i always find it amusing how the party is called "labour" and seems to be very much against the thing they are named for. "democrat" and "republican" are vague enough to mean whatever but i'm surprised they haven't just changed their name by now because there has got to be some dissonance everytime it's said out loud.
like when they went all anti-union recently. it's like you fuckers have a party literally named for the working class.
'Republican' did have a very brief period of meaning something back before and during the civil war. There was a push for the federal government to be a grand republic or whatever.
At the risk of doing great man history, that all died with Thaddeus :chaddeus: Stevens and the failure to commit to reconstruction, like everything else good about the party.