Democrats have lost working class Americans

 The set of issues on which the Democratic Party is most coherent these days is social progressivism....But while these issues unite college-educated voters and working-class minority voters, they’ve historically alienated the working class.   The this polychromatic Democratic Party, open to all races, both genders, all sexual orientations, welcoming to immigrants, and championing diversity, may not have preserved enough room for the working-class voters.  The the left’s fetish with identity politics and political correctness also alienated the working class. Hearing professors and students at elite colleges talk about white privilege as one struggles to make ends meet at the local factory (that could get shut down any day) is bound to breed resentment.  Reduced reliance on working-class whites since the 1990s has freed Democrats to pursue a more consistently liberal cultural agenda. But anyone watching this convention’s first nights might easily view social inclusion, not economic opportunity, as the party’s core priority. One of the challenges for Democrats is talking about diversity, talking about gender in a way that doesn’t put people on the defensive, and make them feel like they are being … accused of being bigoted.

     Liberals and those on the Left have very often exhibited a smug attitude toward the working class, even more so the white working class, sneeringly referring to them as “clinging to their guns and religion,” as Obama did, or as a “basket of deplorables,” as Hillary Clinton did. Or talk like, referring to all Trump supporters as “Nazis.”  What we are witnessing is, in part, the rebellion of a class of people in America who are tired of being put down by a smug segment of American society who makes no bones about the fact that they think the cultural mores and beliefs of the majority of the white working class are unworthy. They are tired of this smug attitude that writes them off instead of trying to understand their concerns.

    Note that it's not just the working class whites, but the working class of all colors.  And this is simply something the Liberals fail to understand.  A working class person — defined as a person without a college degree, although there are extensive debates as to the best way to define “working class”--can be of any race.  And, in fact, the majority of non-white races are working class.  The working class live everywhere and are afraid that they’ll soon live in a nation that’s no longer recognizable.  They are the forgotten working class that has been underrepresented in American democracy over the past generation.

 
     Manly dignity is a big deal for working-class men, and they’re not feeling that they have it. They want a world free of political correctness and a return to an earlier era, when men were men and women were women.  Democrats try to offer policies (paid sick leave! minimum wage!) that would help the working class,” but fall short. A few days’ paid leave ain’t gonna support a family. Neither is minimum wage. Working class men aren’t interested in working at McDonald’s for $15 per hour instead of $9.50. What they want is what my father-in-law had: steady, stable, full-time jobs that deliver a solid middle-class life to the 75% of Americans who don’t have a college degree.

     The vast majority of working class people are socially conservative.  And the ones that are not often become that as they get older.  All the social programs trumpeted by the Liberals and Democrats that benefit the poor but barely touch the working class.  They're still paying taxes, and it seems like they never get anything for it. It's always someone else.  At its core you have a group of people who are struggling and need help, but instead feel like they simply get taxed and taxed for the benefit of someone else. Always someone else. If this were you, you wouldn't vote for Democrats either.