Celebrity Democrats are a Liability
If Celebrities are for us, who can be against us?
When you are on the progressive left, it is sometimes hard to get people to take you seriously. Universal healthcare, free college, basic public income, reparations, federally-funded political campaigns, the Green New Deal; sure it all sounds nice. But too often, members of the progressive movement find themselves facing accusations of unseriousness, of pie-in-the-sky promises that never, ever come to anything.
That progressive ideas are too expensive, too impractical, too idealistic, is something liberal Democrats are constantly being reminded of by dissenting voices from inside and outside the party.
Increasingly, these dissenting voices are coming from the working-class. Which is odd, because it is usually the wealthy and upper middle-class who object to liberal progressive policies. In a complete shift, the criticisms of progressive social goals, and more specifically the tax increases needed to pay for them, are now coming from the working-class and being directed towards wealthy elites.
Usually, the reverse is true. Generally, progressive policies have tended to favor the working-class. But over the past decade, during which the progressive policy of globalism destroyed American manufacturing and the American towns which depended on it, the allegiance of the working-class has shifted towards Republicans.
Unlike ten years ago, today, Democrats control 27 of the 30 wealthiest districts in the country and share equally with Republicans the 30 poorest.
For some reason, the Democratic Party, with the 2020 election being no exception, is bleeding support from the working-class, and has been since Barack Obama’s reelection campaign.
It is easy to blame it all on racism, because that lets the Democratic Party completely off the hook. But it is at least possible that other factors, including economic ones, might be playing some small part in the shift.
We must admit the possibility that working-class voters may be just as motivated by their own financial well-being and self-interest as they are by racial animus.
If economic concerns are indeed among the reasons more voters, including more minority voters, chose…