Why did working -
class voters choose a selfish, thin - skinned, petulant, lying, narcissistic, boastful megalomaniac for president?
Not exact matches
We can
choose now to retreat once again into those echo chambers or begin to listen more attentively to one another — to love our neighbors by learning about them and their needs and perspectives whether black, white, Asian, or Latino / a; whether Christian, Muslim, or none; whether upper, middle, or working
class; whether
voter or one of the nearly half of eligible
voters that sat out this election.
Voters weren't asked to conceive of the Labour Party as a direct representation of working -
class interests in aggregate — politics became about
choosing which group of elites offered the best deal to you as an individual.
Sarkozy, a fan of George W Bush, reportedly did not
choose the name to copy the US, but rather because his pollsters advised him that acronyms had fallen from favour among
voters who are increasingly distrustful of the political
class.
«The middle
class is suffering due to rampant income inequality in this district, and
voters should
choose who is best suited to be their champion on those critical issues.»
We do not have to
choose between appealing to middle -
class and working -
class voters.
But if the loudest and most active (read: white upper - middle -
class suburban) parents think standardized tests are just an annual annoyance, if these parents and other activist
voters choose to disbelieve the results in the fact - free era of modern political discourse, then accountability will be diluted down to the posting of test results and the annual finger wagging of the local news media.
In Washington State,
voters passed an initiative on
class size,
choosing to pay for an additional 25,000 employees for their k - 12 public schools over the next four years.