I'm probably going to get some push back on what I say but my experience recently has been somewhat enlightening even if it's not ground breaking or exactly suprising.
I do travel quite a bit for my job and this past two weeks been down in South Georgia doing some work. I work with county and city level employees, so these are guys who might have an AA degree at most and kind of blue collar. Some of them are definitely rednecks but it's been a mix of folks. Some are typical Republican voting conservatives but have worked with some guys you would assume are the same but turn out to be liberal and one of the dudes was a big fan of Bernie Sanders.
Anyways, the point I'm making is that during my trip down here I've travelled all around this particular county near Savannah and have seen 4 to 5 million waterfront properties and old money types to depressingly poor white and Hispanic trailer parks and majority black public housing that we're literally just cinderblocks stacked into a house and painted over with the only outside ventilation being the door way. Real depressing shyt to see the inequality in wealth and amount of poverty that exist. Anyways, these folks from my experience don't typically watch most of this stuff that is going on right now or much cable news at all. They aren't aware enough to know when they go to their favorite barbershop or store and fox news is on the TV and that it's purely a propaganda channel and that other news sources are different. They aren't really passionate about the deep political shyt for the most part.
They think of political actions in terms of how it impacts job available, infrastructure, and various services. The point I'm making is that this trip has further cemented in my mind that this Russia shyt is not something that will impact voting actions in a lot of places. I've met dudes who don't hate Obama because he bowed to some Chinese premeir or he implemented a lot of stuff through executive actions. They were angry that new environmental policies were implenented that killed their coal plants and killed hundreds of jobs. Funny thing is when one of these former plant workers now public employees were ranting about that to me and the Bernie dude, the Bernie dude next to me after he left was yeah we lost a lot of jobs but don't know who to believe on why because they all have their agendas.
Anyways, just kind of a stream of consciousness here but jobs, healthcare, and infrastructure focus being the message from Democrats in upcoming elections just seem like such an opportunity from my experience and some of these people seemed open to progressive policies like healthcare reform if you can get out in front of Republican propaganda that tends to get to them first. One dude who has 600k bill for hip replacement said "the healthcare is fukked up in this country" and seemed to be hinting at whatever America is doing now is messed up compared to other places and he looked like an ignorant redneck type at first glance .
