Workers For …

For John, BLUF:  It appears the democrats have abandoned the industrial worker, to include those in extraction industries, for adoption of Socialism.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Blue collar voters fear the Democrats have abandoned them

From The New York Post, by Reporter Salena Zito, 5 October 2019.

Here is the lede plus five:

It’s 10:30 a.m. and Dave Green is home for the weekend tinkering with his car.  The former president of the local UAW 1112, who once led workers at the shuttered GM Lordstown plant in Ohio, was forced to relocate to Bedford, Ind., this past summer where he now works on the company’s die-cast production line.

Green, whom President Trump famously bashed on Twitter when General Motors announced it was closing the plant, is a devout Democrat and union man who does not care for the president.  Like many of his peers across the Midwest, he is waiting and hoping for one of the Democratic presidential candidates to do something inspiring.

“The candidates who have the right message aren’t on the debate stage,” said Green of his former congressman Tim Ryan and Sherrod Brown, the US senator from Ohio who dropped out of the contest before the debates even started.  “We need candidates to actually step up and do more than lip service, do something to help change some of the laws that are anti-worker,” he continued.  “Because, quite frankly, we’ve been getting our asses handed to us for 20 years or more.  And, if something doesn’t change …”

His voice trails off in frustration.

As social media, a socialist-leaning base and each successive debate molds the Democrats’ 2020 platform, climate change has emerged as the single most important issue, followed by Medicare for All, more government spending, free college, gun confiscation, reparations for the descendants of slaves, and banning fossil fuels and the jobs they create.

Any emphasis on pro-worker ideals, such as the extension of paid sick days, never seems to come up.  “Joe Biden is probably the most pro-union person out of the group running for president.  Still, he doesn’t talk about it much when he is on the stage,” said Gary Steinbeck, a retired steelworker from Ohio.

I am not sure the Democratic Party Presidential Candidates, and their strategists, understand that American workers tend to not equate socialism and pro-worker.  This could lead to problems in November 2020.  Not in the Primaries, but in the General Election.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff