I don't disagree with your discussion, but I do with the headline. Democrats have lost votes because they lost empathy and didn't respond to blue collar workers who have lost income and wealth to upper income folks.
Over the past 50 years the share of wealth for the top 1% has exploded and the top 10% has grown while the bottom 90% has gone no where. “Three billionaires in
Oregon collectively own about twice the wealth of the bottom half of all Oregonians.
Oregon’s wealthiest billionaire, Nike co-founder Phil Knight, alone owns more wealth
than the bottom half of Oregonians.” Oregon is not an outlier. The three wealthiest
Americans – Buffett, Gates, and Bezos – also owned more than the bottom half of all
Americans in 2019. In addition the top 10%, which includes me and I expect you, have 3X the wealth of the bottom 90%.
This is where the resentment comes from. What is so perverse is that the Republicans who are the primary propagators of this wealth division, get credit for a better economy than the Democrats and the working class whites support Trump who is the very epitome of greed and worker exploitation. None of this deals with the facts, but it is still the economy in the messaging.
I don't disagree with your discussion, but I do with the headline. Democrats have lost votes because they lost empathy and didn't respond to blue collar workers who have lost income and wealth to upper income folks.
Over the past 50 years the share of wealth for the top 1% has exploded and the top 10% has grown while the bottom 90% has gone no where. “Three billionaires in
Oregon collectively own about twice the wealth of the bottom half of all Oregonians.
Oregon’s wealthiest billionaire, Nike co-founder Phil Knight, alone owns more wealth
than the bottom half of Oregonians.” Oregon is not an outlier. The three wealthiest
Americans – Buffett, Gates, and Bezos – also owned more than the bottom half of all
Americans in 2019. In addition the top 10%, which includes me and I expect you, have 3X the wealth of the bottom 90%.
This is where the resentment comes from. What is so perverse is that the Republicans who are the primary propagators of this wealth division, get credit for a better economy than the Democrats and the working class whites support Trump who is the very epitome of greed and worker exploitation. None of this deals with the facts, but it is still the economy in the messaging.