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Listening to the news tonight — talk of Democrats “abandoning” working class people.

That is so much bullsh*t …

The Democrats did NOT abandon the working class. The PANDEMIC {remember that?} created tough times for all of us, seriously decimating our standard economy. And Biden was pulling us out…What Democrats did was forget who they needed to keep TALKING TO, while they kept on doing the job the country needed them to do …

Democrats stopped talking about the issues the labor sector talks about — the “conversation” around the country shifted well toward social issues, maybe because that’s where the Republicans steered it — fragmenting people along social lines…gender, religion, migration …

But Democrats and the Left have continued to work for labor values - LOOK at the bills Biden has put through — bringing back manufacturing in tech and auto; supporting unions; bringing infrastructure money to regions all over the country, Red and Blue and Purple; supporting a higher minimum wage; improving the tax code; paid family leave; early childhood education; so many labor issues!!!

SO, the R’s successfully painted Dems as elitist and claimed they were focused on far Left social issues, but Dems kept putting dollars back into the economy and people’s pockets. It takes TIME for the economy to respond to legislation aimed at fixing it. It take TIIME to feel the rising tide.

TRUMP is going to benefit from an improved economy based on BIDEN’S policies and legislative successes.

Labor swallowed a line of bull from the R’s …

And here we are …

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