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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
well, college kids educated professionals are real people too, but otherwise i agree with you. too much identity politics and not enough class issues.
part of the problem though is that at least in america a lot of the working class don't think they're actually working class-- they're think they're just temporarily embarrassed millionaires waiting for the big time- so-- don't tax the rich! i'll be one soon! and people vote against their own interests.
it would take some sort of... political reeducation for people to start to see the light again. but then the republicans would call it-- class warfare, an attack on job creators, communist indoctrination, etc. and they could be half-right.
it's a tricky situation. has to be done right or it will explode in people's faces.
IDEALLY you'd have business, government and labor working together, but the anglo-american model seems to be based on confrontation rather than cooperation.
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The fear of socialism and communism that the right has reliably rallied behind since the dawn of man is kind of hilarious in this instance, since we now have a president championed by Putin and a political oligarchy across branches. Big Government has never been bigger than it is (or will soon be), at least in theory.
But if you know a single Trump voter who has thought of that, then congratulations you've found Waldo.