For decades, the Democrats called themselves the “Party for the Poor,” the “Party of the common folks,” and the “Party of the Working People.” The last was meant to be the blue-collar workers in the fields, mines, and factories. Those who toiled but not in the middle to C-level offices.
That their preferred policies tried to reflect that.
No more, as this chart handily shows: WHO are their constituents now?
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And now the blue-collar unions are figuring it out as the Biden Administration is killing off the jobs that the unions highly desired.
The UAW is steamed as auto companies are moving more production offshore as the Administration both raises the cost of building cars but radically changes the auto industry and its economics by mandating via regulation that they only sell EVs.
Pipefitters are livid as tens of thousands of jobs evaporated in the energy market as Biden killed off huge pipelines and did the same to fossil fuel mining and production. On and on and on, jobs that kept the union workers working are being disappeared.
Guess where these former Democrats, shoved by their Progressives, Social Warriors, and Eco-Socialists demands, are going to go with the lure of “Drill, baby, drill”?
The pendulum will swing at some point. After all, the Democrats can’t tell them to “go learn to code” anymore as the Biden Administration is making it easier to bring off-shore IT folks here to take their jobs as well as the new threat of generative A.I. products are starting to take those jobs away.
HT | Powerline
