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(13,305 posts)..which ones think that voting against this bill would be in their best interests?
Which of those groups advocates for higher drug prices?
That's the thing. None of them.
No group of people in all those "identity groups" or whatever you want to call them, would be against better economic situations especially with regard to healthcare.
This is not an either/or thing. If we do what is right economically, and don't betray our core constituencies there will be no backlash.
The problem is not that we support all of those other causes, the problem is that we've abandoned many of our core economic causes.
I've posted this many times over the past few weeks, but my white bread, blue collar family members were Democrats going way back when. Union joes and janes every one of them. And they always voted and supported Democratic candidates. And even though my family members were not exactly the most culturally and socially tolerant folks, it didn't matter to them that those candidates also supported civil rights, gay rights, womens rights, etc. Because they knew that the common ground we all had was economic justice and standing up to corporations and the oligarchy and all of that. They only started falling out of love with Democrats and being susceptible to the Republican message when Democrats started vying for all of that corporate cash and betraying core economic ideals.
Most of them voted for Obama and could not have cared any less that he supported social justice because they believed his hopeful economic message and the idea that he was a regular guy who would fight for regular people.
Until we get that back we are going to continue to be in bad shape, and if we continue to believe that it is an either/or thing of economics vs. social justice that time is not going to be soon.