Reply #49: OK! There is, at least, 2 of us now!

[FredStembottom]

I, too, am a blue-collar male Lefty.

I have felt just, plain "left" out of the Dem Party for about 25 years now!

I slid backward in income all throughout the Wild '90"s.

While the white-collar world partied on the covers of every magazine on the grocery store rack, my Blue-collar friends and I moved relentlessly backward in income.

I consoled myself with the thought "but it will happen to you, too, cubicle dwellers".

And so I remained a Democrat. Because a Democrat dazzled by the glare of globalization can only be a temporary thing. So I waited. And now the loading docks of my world are teeming with outsourced IT workers and project managers.

Suddenly, because robots aren't quite ready to drive trucks, my workplace is becoming the ONLY workplace!

But look-out! Starving people from other countries can drive trucks, too! And they'll do it for 1/3 of my (your) wage. And rather than welcoming in these immigrants in a systematic manner and boosting them UP to my (your) wage, the plan is to let the levy breech, let America flood with desperate refugees and let them do the job for 1/3 of your (my) wage.

And "globalization" will then be complete.

And you and I saw what was happening 25 years ago. But it wasn't fashionable to talk to us.

Mr. Dean, is the party ready, now to talk to blue-collar people?
You should be.