2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Who has been the WORST President of YOUR lifetime? And Why? [View all]Yavin4
(36,887 posts)and with it, the middle class. He so thoroughly decimated labor that the Democratic party abandoned labor with Bill Clinton in 1992.
Reagan did this by using coded, yet highly charged, racial rhetoric that split White working class people from other races. White working class people believed that Reagan was on their side simply because they shared the same skin color. To this day, the White working class still supports Republicans out of some kind of mis-guided racial solidarity instead of seeing them as the destroyer of the middle class. Because of this mindset, we cannot get a decent minimum wage, a real national healthcare plan, movement on climate change, lower education costs, etc.
Europe has just as many racists, homophobic, sexists , etc. people like we do, but they still vote for their class interests first. Margaret Thatcher couldn't dismantle the UK's public health system.
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