Democrats are the party of elitists in general and don't like the working class, but why do they have so much contempt for the White working class? They don't want to appeal to Rural Voters and farmers. I guess they know their policies suck and would do nothing for them.
I don't give a **** about delineating the difference between "the working class" and "the WHITE working class" the way you do, because in reality, "THE WORKING CLASS" consists of every single race and culture that exists in this great nation of ours and earns a paycheck.
Democrats are the party of elitists in general in the exact same way that the Republican Party is.
SMELLS LIKE MONEY, and the elites on both sides have lots of it.
That is the scourge of big money in politics, something which was endorsed by several landmark SCOTUS rulings, including Citizens United and McCutcheon v. FEC among others.
From these and other SCOTUS rulings has sprung a brand new "superspecies" of "corporate persons" who are different from real live walking around mortal human persons made of flesh, blood, bone and muscle.
A "corporate person"
(*****singular!) is not made of flesh, blood, bone and muscle. They are made of concrete, glass, steel and wire and they consist internally of lawyers and potentially unlimited amounts of money, and they are immortal.
And we are witnessing them stomping around demanding their rights, crushing us mere mortal flesh and blood persons in the process.
---So...in answer to your question, why did the Democrats abandon the working class?
Because the elites had much more money and in order to compete with their counterparts, they needed to access the same streams of money their counterparts had access to.
And as for rural voters and farmers, to be truthful about that, you may want to go and look at
what has happened to our small family owned farms ever since the bailouts started.
The president of the Farmer's Union says most of what's happened has not been good:
The Trump administration has tried to mitigate some of the damage with a $16 billion direct aid package to farmers, complete with $14.5 billion going to cash payments and $1.4 billion in bulk purchases by the government. However, a review by the Environmental Working Group, an advocacy organization best known for promoting organic foods, found that more than half of payments made to U.S. farmers went disproportionately to the largest farms, with the top one percent receiving an average of more than $180,000, while 80 percent of subsidized farms were given less than $5,000.
Yes, you're right...it DOES appear that, starting around the 1990's, the ESTABLISHMENT of the Democratic Party, the elites, did begin throwing working American families overboard in favor of larger corporate donors.
The progressive wing OF the Democratic Party has been using that fact to inform THEIR point of view, a point of view that repudiates that trend.
It's the
progressives who
WANT the Democratic Party establishment to
RESTORE the party to being the liberal vanguard, the friend and protector of the working class.
The establishment of our party seems to love the corporate and Wall Street donors more, but notice how
progressive candidates will not accept big corporate donations.
That ought to tell you something.
PS: Fix your "white" obsession, it is not a good look for anyone who considers themselves a patriot.
