What does the white working class want?

[JCanete]

17. We will never get anybody back if the corporations continue to control the message. Focusing on what

these voters want is silly. Focusing on what they believe and why they believe it in the face of continued decline is what we should do.

Getting them to distrust the messaging they've always relied on requires tying that messaging to the corporations and tying their suffering to corporate greed. Take away for them the lie that the media is liberal, not by saying it is conservative, but by showing them that it is wholly owned by corporations, which have a vested interests against supporting the middle class and the poor.

Krugman sadly, is part of the corporate messaging that is the problem, which is why I would never expect him to put his finger on the real issue. I much prefer Wolfe or Reich.


If the democrats are going to make this argument though, and commit to waging a class war to right these wrongs(which I know you don't agree with), our party has to stop also being beholden to corporate interests. We are never going to do that, even if we could, but that makes it impossible for us to use any kind of populist messaging, or to properly diagnose the greatest sickness we have in this nation, which is the death of the fourth estate.