Actually: yes! And despite what you may have heard, so does the Democratic Party at large.
Historically, the Democrats have always stood with the working man on issues like unions, the minimum wage, workers’ comp./unemployment/disability benefits, and the ability to sue exploitative employers.
(Incidentally: Why are unemployment benefits important to *working* people? They make you less beholden to your employer since you can survive for awhile even if you’re fired. They increase lower-paid working people’s negotiating position when it comes to wages.)
But Republicans, whenever they are in power, hack and slash away at those benefits. Yes, Republicans tend to give out tax cuts too, but working people aren’t seeing the vast majority of those tax cuts. Preserving their protections and benefits under the law is more key.
The Republican mentality really does promote self-defeating and self-loathing among working-class people. The Party worships material wealth (just look at whom they last elected President), and Republicans are taught to believe in the “bootstraps” mentality and that if they did not succeed financially in life, then that it is their own damn fault.
It’s not true. They were likely exploited in life by underfunded education, companies getting them hooked on tobacco and alcohol and prescription painkillers, and callous employers seeking to boost the bottom line.
And the “race war” propaganda — that also keeps working-class white Republicans in line. Another thing that is just not true. The Democratic Party is *diverse*. That doesn’t mean it’s anti-white. It just means the Party welcomes all comers regardless of skin tone.
Example: The last Democratic President was black. The current one is white. Democrats didn’t vote against Joe Biden because of his skin color. In fact, they gave Joe Biden more votes than anyone, and I was one of them who did so (I did not vote for Obama either time, but did vote for Biden).
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