[glangdale]

It's not inconsistent to want to 'badly want to help' groups that aren't on your political side. I may be a left-liberal, but working class conservatives arguing for lower taxes are in fact arguing for an arrangement that would benefit me far more than it would benefit them.

[dgfitz]

You ignored the Obama quote. It also sounds like you’re saying you know what’s best for an entire class of people. Is that accurate?

[heurisko]

Right and left are as much personality traits, as political opinions.

The conservative working class doesn't necessarily want tax breaks and handouts, especially if structural problems remain, like the complete capitulation to artificially lower price goods coming from China's command economy.