Which party stands for the working class in the U.S. these days?

Question

That was historically the democratic base. That was THE reason for being a democrat. Not liberal baloney. Is the working class just disappearing?

Is that why so many don't even vote?

Answer 1

Good question! Many Americans have been duped first of all in denying their blue-collar working class backgrounds, defining themselves instead as "middle" class. If a person completes an IRS 1040 as his/her sole record of income, he/she is pretty much working class, blue, grey, or white collar, makes no nevermind. An employee.

Young people today, the college set particularly, kind of look down on working class even though this is their origin and where everything exciting happens.

Now to your question: The working class is pretty much disenfranchised, both major parties favoring the financial elite. Anything coming down from them to people who actually do things are scraps.

Consider this simple quote now:

There are always two parties ; the establishment and the movement. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is plain that both parties are "establishment". This is the sad truth of the matter.

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Answer 2

I'm a very active Democrat, and many of the other Democrats whom I am active with locally are union members. Certainly the GOP is funded heavily by corporate ownership, so they aren't the party of the working class. The Green party might become such a thing, but they don't have any power to speak of yet.

As much as there is a party that includes the interests of the working class it is the Democratic party. I'm sure the leadership of the party could do more for its labor grassroots, but they do continue pushing for a minimum wage if you count that as being pro-labor.

Answer 3

Well if you consider that the Democrat Speaker of the House,

Nancy Pelosi, in the minimum wage bill she introduced in the House.

Extempted American Soma from the minimum wage bill during its first draft.

It just happens that 80% of the workers in American Soma, work for two Tuna Corporations.

Both are head quartered in Pelosi's Congressional District.

Neither party cares about the average worker anymore.

Union membership went down every year from 1993 to 2001.

So make your own conclusion.

Answer 4

The working class is still there, but the political support for the working class is vanishing because of the Republican party's actions providing tax breaks for the wealthy and reducing or eliminating support systems for the working poor.

The Democratic party tends to support the working class far more than the Republican party does, but there are unrelated issues that are also part of their platform.

The best deal for the working class would be the emergence of a strong third party, but the two big parties have worked hard to prevent that from happening.

It takes money to win a campaign, and if you have that kind of money or access to that kind of money you're not hanging out with working class people. Candidates support the people they hang out with-- people with money.

Answer 5

What working classification? for each individual who does any actual"artwork" there are 20 bloody penpushers which could be paid to take a seat on their asses shuffling bloody paper approximately and telling one yet another how bloody significant thier pastime is.Thats why while it incorporates elections etc the voice of the worker is drowned out via the bloody parasites that stay off his labour and phone themselves midsection classification.Its purely a huge the different way up pyramid with the few on the backside helping a mountain of ineffective pillocks that produce sod all.

Answer 6

The Green Party

Answer 7

Pure lip service. The dems never did the working man any favors. Unions and labor laws are the direct cause of plants shutting down and moving over seas.....thanks a lot. The working man is best served by a free market. The only party in favor of a free market is the Libertarian Party.

Answer 8

At one point in our history, the Democrats were strong supporters of labor unions. Now we can see that labor unions have been destroyed by corporations that simply close plant and move jobs across borders.

Both major parties are not friends to labor and not friends to the average American. I think that the Green party has the best chance of helping American learn to leverage the Green movement for the financial benefit of the average American.

Answer 9

Well since the liberals are doing a good job in wiping out the middle class in their own way by creating laws and regualtions forcing companies to move out of the country.
That is big win for the little guy won't you agree.

Or creating regulations so tight loggers who are trying to make a living are force out of business.

The working class is changing once what was true is no longer.

When non-union autoworkers are making better products than the union lable people.

Time for the unions to get a grip and remember the companies are there to make money not to give them union boss a job.

Answer 10

Your starting to believe the propaganda from the neocons. Not all Democrats are liberals. They just label them as such to scare the working man. If they were true liberals there would be things like legalizing marijuana on the ballot. The news stations are all big biz now so don't get your news from them get it from the BBC and PBS.