| > The Democrats used to serve the middle class, but they stopped after Carter got demolished by Reagan. No, the Democrats now serve the middle and upper class, they used to serve the working class. And the pro-labor faction of the a party was dominant until Bill Clinton (and arguably until 1994; there's a reason why Clinton had to rely on mainly Republican votes to pass NAFTA.) > Like it or not the default vote for most of middle America is GOP If your default vote is for your own destruction, you will be destroyed, and then to your vote, default or otherwise, will be irrelevant. The GOP has nothing to offer Middle America but a series of people (blacks, Mexicans, Muslims, ...) to vent their anger at as a distraction while the GOP’s financiers destroy Middle America. > The Dems have to actually come up with something that works to get these smaller cities and towns vibrant again if they want the votes. The people can be saved; their small towns and cities, in many cases, cannot. Some might survive as shadows of themselves and living museums (see Columbia, CA, as an example from the Gold Rush), but once the economic basis for a town is gone, finding a new one is unlikely, and doing it for more than a small share of a large number is just not going to happen. > I don't think the establishment Dems understand America outside the coastal areas. The neoliberal establishment has been losing ground in the Democratic party for decades; and what they don't connect with has more to do with class than geography. |