Thanks, I was absolutely wondering what that -- I'm more greek than him -- was about.
Those folks have been voting against their self-interest for years. Liberals like Paul Wellstone never walked away from unions. It's the Democrats who "worked with both sides" that got praised. Not electing more liberals and progressives has been their (working class) downfall. However, the blue collars have been trained to be anti-liberal even though it's in their self interest through racism, sexism and believing rhetoric that helping billionaires would somehow dribble down to them. It started with Reagan and picked up serious steam under Trump. Unions, minimum wage, higher taxes on the wealthy, worker protection, consumer protection, medicaid, Pell grants, free school lunches, SNAP amounts, federal help for affordable housing, the Job Corps, restriction of collective bargaining rights, help for people to navigate the ACA and make them figure that shit out on their own, veterans benefits and veterans hospitals. Flattening the tax rates. Gutting public schools. There's a long list of programs that helped support working class Americans but Republicans took aim at, and when they had to, were able to find middle of the road politicians, such as Sherrod Brown, to vote with them. Then we have the Supreme Court and how the Rs have stacked it in order to fuck over every single American except for billionaires and large corporations and their execs. Your buddies have been voting against their own self interest for years. I call that fucking stupid.