Because the right started the culture war. They did so after the New Deal. The right wing propaganda space has its origins in the 1950s after the New Deal. What didn’t help was the Cold War started and the right made absurd claims that FDR was a communist, Truman was a secret communist, Eisenhower was a communist, and JFK etc. Nixon was able to use dog whistle tactics to critique the Great Society programs because it was helping black folks in urban cities. Nixon then Reagan were successful in courting whites in the south and middle America by instigating culture war talking points. This appealed to the Dixiecrats. shyt hasn’t changed. As we saw with the George Floyd protest the vast majority of whites in the south and Midwest were against the protest and police reform but voted for Biden. You have to understand even if you improve their economic outlook they will be racist and cling to culture wars. At this point they are fascist. The way they support law enforcement no matter what they do wi the the Blue Lives matter bullshyt. Or their worship of the military. Their obsession with forming militias over imagined threats are all textbook fascist ideals. And the right wing media space for 60 years has made a lot of white america not care about economic issues but cultural issues. And in doing so these people vote against their own economic self interest but they don’t see it. You can see from Nixon to now the decline of the American way of life coincide with the growth of the right wing propaganda space. In short they would rather have this nation crash and burn than making equal to all. The white upper middle class that voted for Biden but GQP down ballot don’t want reform. The white working class is brainwashed with right wing talking points to the point any reform to better American lives is Communist. In short they are a lost cause. They will and are the downfall of this country while the wealthy get richer. We can’t even get paid family leave or drug pricing reforms it shows how deep this shyt is.
One, when I was in school it was taught to me that it was impossible for the democrats to lose the House of Representatives. And then 1994 happened. New Deal democrats were a thing until the late 70s, when the democrats also abandoned the New Deal.
I am aware of the right wing culture war and media promulgation of the nonsense. My point is that the the Democrats haven’t actually set out policies that were in their economic interests. They called all of those people communists yet still supported economically progressive policies, even post civil rights movement.
And tbh, only Americans in the too 10% of wealth and earnings vote in their interests. The rest of us don’t.
