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Garbage take, and we're seeing it more and more. If you believe this, you've fallen hook, line, and sinker for the culture war politics pushed by the two parties. The Republicans claim to represent the "real working class backbone of America" or whatever they want to call it, as they continue to strip worker and environmental protections and push for tax cuts for the rich. They will not, and cannot "move left" solely because of their material basis as a party; both parties are bourgeois parties and will not move left on their own ever, and cannot be pushed left anytime soon.
It would be funny to see them run on Medicare for all and pass it with full confidence that their own judges will immediately strike it down.
I don't know if I'm repeating Lib rhetoric, but is there any legitimacy to the 'medicare for all whites'? In my head insurance companies and big pharma are in with the R's, but I don't know how red pilled the senators are to go against their elite masters.
I feel the rhetoric could be something like MEDICARE FOR ALL EXCEPT ILLEGALS or some shit. I feel I could 100% see that ending up being a slogan
Is this pasta? Seriously wtf is this lmao. I knew some people would end up with brain worms like that after the whole "republican party is becoming the working class party" discourse. Clown shit.
Fascists don't represent the working class well. The Nazis had one state controlled trade union, used forced labour and cracked down on strikes.
Also the republican party is transphobic as fuck and that isn't going to change anytime soon.
Until the left is a formidable political adversary, the right has no need to appeal to the material interests of workers. For now, all they will give is cultural resentment
The working class is moving back to the GOP, sadly. Trump got the most black and latino votes of a Republican president since the 1950s.
Democrats have re-invented their party as the smug, college educated rich people's party. When Sanders called them the "party of the coastal elites', he wasn't wrong. They just elected Joe Biden to complete that transition entirely.
If we didn't have fascism on the horizon in the next few years, it may have been possible through time for the parties to realign but that's not going to happen. Republicans WILL go full fascist when they begin addressing the wealth inequality and talking about class war. We're already to a point where their attacks on the Democrats hit right on the nose with how out of touch with the working man that party is. We're not far off from getting a new wave of Republicans who address wealth inequality, and when they do, it will be in the vein of blaming minorities, protesters (whom they'll call 'criminals') and corrupt Democrats.
If Republicans moved somewhat left for a while (ie helped the working class even slightly) they could probably secure power for the foreseeable future since the Dems don't want to offer anyone anything and would just do their performative opposition which would be meaningless against tangible positive policies. Then they could probably shift right over time while perma blaming dems or a scapegoat for everything bad and never lose to them
If Joe makes it through 4 years without stepping down, I still think that the first female president will probably be a Republican. I can’t see Ivanka being able to be misinterpreted as a fighter for the working class (ala Trump), but I wonder if there’s someone that will fit that mold by 2024.
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