re: #159 Decatur Deb
Whoever made up the term âWhite working classâ was an enemy. Itâs just âworkersâ, and if you look around youâll see who is doing all the heavy lifting. Labor issues are Black issues, are Womenâs issues, are Latino issues,âŚ
Hear, hear.
As far as Iâm concerned anyway, enlisted military personnel are working class. In no command anytime in my career did I see a mythical bloc of âwhite working class enlistedâ people. Just âenlisted people.â (And the old joke went about officers, no, I work for a living⌠.)
Trumpâs attacks on NAFTA and immigration have farmers and ranchers here spooked. They benefit greatly from NAFTA, and theyâve seen what happened in Alabama and Georgia when they couldnât 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 donât 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.
Itâs doable, itâs just hard work.