Bestworking posted:

BTW jt, when will YOU answer? Why can't blue collar workers afford insurance? What happened to that "everyone will have affordable insurance" bull crap the demslops spouted? Sounds to me you are saying you got yours and you don't care about the rest.

I believe jt believes in the Democratic party of 50 years ago and hasn't noticed that while most of the people who supported Dems haven't changed their beliefs and left the party, the party changed its beliefs and left them.

As a Teen Cashier Seeing Food Stamp Use, I Changed My Mind About the Democrat Party

http://dailysignal.com/2016/07...Qkw2SG5JaVNncEhFPSJ9

I also learned how people gamed the welfare system. They’d buy two dozen packs of soda with food stamps and then sell them at a discount for cash. They’d ring up their orders separately, buying food with food stamps, and beer, wine, and cigarettes with cash. They’d regularly go through the checkout line speaking on their cell phones. I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off of government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

Mamaw listened intently to my experiences at Dillman’s. We began to view much of our fellow working class with mistrust. Most of us were struggling to get by, but we made do, worked hard, and hoped for a better life. But a large minority was content to live off the dole.

Every two weeks, I’d get a small paycheck and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages. At least as often, our drug-addict neighbor would buy T-bone steaks, which I was too poor to buy for myself but was forced by Uncle Sam to buy for someone else. This was my mindset when I was seventeen, and though I’m far less angry today than I was then, it was my first indication that the policies of Mamaw’s “party of the working man”—the Democrats—weren’t all they were cracked up to be.

Political scientists have spent millions of words trying to explain how Appalachia and the South went from staunchly Democratic to staunchly Republican in less than a generation.