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Originally Posted by JPhillips
Sure, but it can't be sold as primarily benefiting the poor. Poor people don't vote, and the working and middle classes are very much opposed to benefits for the poor. That's why everything is sold as benefiting the middle class.
I think there's room for a big set of proposals to benefit the working class, higher minimum wage, increased overtime, etc. Basically policies that build on the idea that full time workers shouldn't live in poverty. But the Dems don't stand for anything, so, oh well.
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I think your last paragraph here encapsulates it somewhat. There are proposals that the Democrats can, and in the past would have, advance that would benefit the working class and working poor, by selling it in the way that you have - "full time workers shouldn't live in poverty". The party isn't necessarily making that case, or is kind of using it as "and also we should" as opposed to standing up and promoting it and saying why they should promote it.
Maybe it's starting to change? This election seems like it could bring about quite a bit of realignment... but... maybe not?