I recently saw this article from the Harvard Business Review by Joan Williams.
What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class
It rang true to me.
The analysis feels right to me. The Democrats have been losing working class support since Reagan because they don't understand this.
Trump's appeal is the promise to bring back those working class jobs that can support a middle class salary. If the democrats deliver a similar message in 2020, and the these working class voters still don't have those good paying jobs, the pendulum could swing back to the democratic side.
However, as others have said, the reality is we are moving away from a high paying manufacturing base and these working class voters are simply SOL because neither party can deliver those jobs. Manufacturing continues to use robotics to replace workers.
An article in Inc supports this indicateing manufacturing is coming back to the US but not necessarily the jobs.
What message will appeal to these working class voters if you are to be honest about their prospects? It is my guess that the only way to appeal to these voters is to lie to them about their future prospects until they are a significant minority of the voting public. How would a politician appeal to them with policies that are realistic (not simply empty promises of bringing back high paying manufacturing jobs)? Everything I read indicates if you want a high paying job in the future, you have to continually improve your skills.
What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class
It rang true to me.
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The dream is not to become upper-middle-class, with its different food, family, and friendship patterns; the dream is to live in your own class milieu, where you feel comfortable — just with more money. “The main thing is to be independent and give your own orders and not have to take them from anybody else,” a machine operator told Lamont. Owning one’s own business — that’s the goal. That’s another part of Trump’s appeal. |
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New York Times published an article advising men with high-school educations to take pink-collar jobs. Talk about insensitivity. Elite men, you will notice, are not flooding into traditionally feminine work. To recommend that for WWC men just fuels class anger. |
However, as others have said, the reality is we are moving away from a high paying manufacturing base and these working class voters are simply SOL because neither party can deliver those jobs. Manufacturing continues to use robotics to replace workers.
An article in Inc supports this indicateing manufacturing is coming back to the US but not necessarily the jobs.
What message will appeal to these working class voters if you are to be honest about their prospects? It is my guess that the only way to appeal to these voters is to lie to them about their future prospects until they are a significant minority of the voting public. How would a politician appeal to them with policies that are realistic (not simply empty promises of bringing back high paying manufacturing jobs)? Everything I read indicates if you want a high paying job in the future, you have to continually improve your skills.
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