re: #230 EPR-radar

IMO, the Democrats need to broaden their working class appeal with a better message and messaging on economic issues, but this has to be done with absolutely zero catering to the bigoted resentments of some in the working class. “If you really want to be a bigot, then the Republicans are the party for you.”

Sarah Kendzior indirectly provided a blueprint for this very thing:

On August 28, 2013, America celebrated the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Most Americans associate the march with Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and call for racial harmony. They remember half of the targeted “twin evils” of racism and economic deprivation.

They remember the freedom, and forget the jobs. But the two are inseparable.

“If a man doesn’t have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists,” King proclaimed in 1968. Economic opportunity, he argued, is essential to human rights.

A message like that is how you tie economic populism TO racial equality instead of casting them as diametrically opposed (which is what the evil GOP does so well)