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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷12/28/2017 6:49:32 am PST

re: #159 Decatur Deb

Whoever made up the term “White working class” was an enemy. It’s just “workers”, and if you look around you’ll see who is doing all the heavy lifting. Labor issues are Black issues, are Women’s issues, are Latino issues,…

Hear, hear.

As far as I’m concerned anyway, enlisted military personnel are working class. In no command anytime in my career did I see a mythical bloc of “white working class enlisted” people. Just “enlisted people.” (And the old joke went about officers, no, I work for a living… .)

Trump’s attacks on NAFTA and immigration have farmers and ranchers here spooked. They benefit greatly from NAFTA, and they’ve seen what happened in Alabama and Georgia when they couldn’t get seasonal workers in those states.

Though this area went big for Trump in 2016, savvy politicians running on the left could leverage the potential destruction of their livelihoods (their farms and ranches, and the businesses here that support those).

I don’t know if it would be enough to flip my House district, but it could make it a heck of a lot closer. (And over in NE-2, Omaha, they are about fed up already. Flipping two House districts in 2020 would flip the state to the Democrats.) The wingnut that took NE-2 in the last election is being challenged by the Democrat he unseated from the House.

It’s doable, it’s just hard work.