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Bernie Knows
By Shlomo Maital
I am as tired as you all, of reading the Democrats’ weary post-mortems of why they lost decisively. This blog is the last about this topic, quoting someone who gets it.
Senator Bernie Sanders, Vermont, former mayor of Burlington.
Why are the Democrats surprised that the working class did not support them? He asks. When — for years, the Democrats have not supported the working class. He said this to Michael Barbaro, on the New York Times” The Daily podcast.
Go back to the Clinton administration, when NAFTA shipped America’s factories to Mexico and Canada, $5 an hour labor rather than $25, and free trade brought a flood of cheap Chinese goods into the US, throwing many Midwest factory workers out of a job.
What specifically did the Dems offer working people in this election? Did they propose $18/hr. minimum wage legislation? Uh, no. National health care for all? No. Support for day care? No. Make groceries more affordable? Uh uh.
Virtually every ethnic, racial, and demographic group voted in the majority for Trump. And for the first time in a long time, the Republicans won the majority of votes for President. The Dems warned Trump would bash democracy. Well, he will, and has. But most Americans say, hold on. What did democracy do for me in the past 20 years? Put power in the hands of the educated elites, while I was shut out of a college education, unable to afford the tuition or the steep interest rates on student loans.
Unless the Dems (who spent a billion dollars in ads in the three blue-wall states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, ineffectively) start listening to working Americans, and speaking to them in their language, look for J.D. Vance to become President in 2028.
Yikes.
The Election: Educated Women vs. Uneducated Men
By Shlomo Maital
Einstein said famously, “simplify as much as possible…but not more so.”
This coming Tuesday, voters choose between Trump and Harris.
How will they choose?
According to the New York Times: a recent poll gives the answer. Educated women favor Harris by 43 points (!) over men without college education, who favor Trump. Since half of all voters are women (and women vote more than men), looks like a squeaker for Harris. Some 64% of US men do not have a college degree. For women – over 40% have college degrees, up from 4% (!) in 1940.
But this is truly sad. Men without college education have been left behind and left out in America. Whose fault? Partly the Dems. They gave away their manufacturing jobs to China, under Clinton. But partly the men themselves. It’s not that hard to get into college… many have battled into community colleges, done well and gone on to university, sometimes with partial scholarships and federal assistance.
But, it’s easy for this left-out group to blame the Dems and the system and democracy and the immigrants and… everybody else. Trump sensed this back in 2014 and plays on it incessantly.
It is a terrible shame, an iniquity, that the election is settled on this basis. And much worse – that a President may be elected by those who eschew education, voting for one who panders to ignorance.
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