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As Dem Voters Seek a 'Fight' With the Superrich, AOC is Now Their Favorite Candidate: Poll
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Except for when racists are rallied into opposing things they would directly benefit from because non-white people would also benefit. Anything which erodes their racial caste becomes a material threat to their racial consciousness, and they fight it.
That's how you end up with some poor whites pushing to gut SNAP and WIC.
It doesn't work on big enough scale to matter. There is a reason that candidates that run popular policies always pull in racist voters, just like Bernie Sanders did with Fox News viewers and then Trump voters and at this point multiple congress and senate seats have been won by non-white people despite all the racism. Also, it's easy to counter. It's a class issue, not a race issue. And polling shows that not only it's a good policy, but also works as a counter messaging strategy.
Good economic policy beats most social conditioning over time. For the same reason Trump had to stop saying that affordability was a hoax, because even his cult members couldn't deny that when they are daily confronted by those prices. Americans love to get self-owned for party participation trophy, but everything has a breaking point.
It has worked on a big enough scale to matter, it's how so many government programs have been gutted over the past few decades. They're always screeching about "fraud" and "abuse" which basically just means "non-white people getting benefits."
There's definitely a limit to how far race consciousness can suppress class consciousness, but it definitely works on a big scale.
It works in a vaccum where economic policy is the same due to uniparty, but again that doesn't work when put up against popular policies.
A lot of government assistance programs were popular, and they were eroded anyway because their popularity wasn't sustained through outreach and propaganda. Democrats wouldn't stand up for government assistance programs because they didn't really like them either, so the only thing people heard was how bad it was. There needs to be a concerted effort to educate the masses.
Policies aren't popular on their own. They still have to be made popular and kept popular, by activists and politicians and parties.
They remain popular. They were cut not because they lost popularity, but because nobody were willing to improve them and that then allowed racists to win and cut them. Most openly racist modern politician Trump campaigned on keeping all the social safety net programs because they were popular and are still popular, if someone would have campainged on expanding them they would have won instead.
US has presidential term limits because racists were incapable of winning against popular policies back in the day.
And yet, people voted for candidates who pledged to cut them. That has to be reckoned with.
There's definitely a problem with Democrats being unwilling to improve these programs, because ultimately the Democratic leadership hates government programs too, but there's also the problem with people voting to take government benefits away form undesirables. Again, policies aren't popular on their own, they need to be promoted and advanced. We have a role to play.