Quote (Skinned @ May 6 2017 08:56am)
We will be in charge again soon. Rednecks, tea partiers, gun nuts are all About the same thing. You basically said "white identity politics" people. Its a shrinking demographic in the end of we are being pragmatists.
And I work for these people. I know their struggles, now better than most people here because I'm finding them rehabs, housing, prescribers, vocational training, etc. They're fucked in some cases. But I don't think they should vote for the party that fought rural electrification. Or the one that is fighting to reduce their health care and wages. That's really the bottom line.
'those people' hold wildly disparate views. Many of them are blacks, gays, latinos, etc, but their identity is irrelevant, what matters is their viewpoint: The rightwing right now is not just ideologically diverse, but so much so that its collapsing at the fracture points.
The left wing is not ideologically diverse. Ten minutes on /r/politics would prove that to anyone. Besides the outright purity tests being bounced around on issues like abortion, the extreme hostility to any dissent on issues like immigration and islam is apparent at a glance.
Rednecks, tea partiers, gun nuts, neocons, libertarians, anti-establishment bernouts aren't the same people. Bernie can walk into a room of rural working class republicans in the south and have them all agree with him on universal healthcare, but the tea partiers campaigned on shrinking government, while many of the militiamen want to
overthrow it. Where is this type of fractious diversity on the left? You have the average people who didn't like Hillary but voted for her anyway and preferred Sanders. Then you have the pro-establishment democrats. Who don't actually exist. They're just paid astroturfers or actual politicians because I've never met anyone who was a resolute true believer in the DNC.