Used to claim that they were the party of the working class. That is not true anymore based on the following graph.
But to be fair, I'm not sure that either party is the party of the working class. I would think that virtually all of the issues that the working class would vote for overwhelmingly are being resoundingly rejected by both parties, Democrats and Republicans. As George Carlin noted, they don't care about us at all.
"Democracy" for Democrats, confirmed by court filings by attorneys for the DNC. Kamala Harris was appointed to be the Dems' candidate. There was no vote to install her as the nominee. BTW, this is not a clever way for me to suggest that Republicans are any better. They are corrupt too. Many of the Founders correctly warned of the grave dangers of political parties. Almost all national politicians are thoroughly corrupted by a thoroughly corrupt system that specializes in theater, part of a vast system of kayfabe. As George Carlin claimed, politicians don't care about you. At all. It's not a flaw in the system. It's the design of the system itself, to further countless ways to extract wealth from ordinary people so that elites of both parties can live in physical comfort. I wish I didn't see things this way, but I have repeatedly failed to convince myself to believe otherwise.
We've already experienced many years of Wokists commonly trying to shut down meaningful conversations by using slurs. Here's a newscaster (the BBC's BBC's Laura Kuenssberg) trying to pull this cheap stunt on Tucker Carlson, who appropriately calls her out. He's absolutely correct. The mere fact that one opposes Netanyahu or opposes the current foreign policy of Israel (as I do) does not make one Anti-Semite or anti-Jewish.
BBC's Laura Kuenssberg: I mean, I am going to point out I probably don't need to, because our audience can see and hear for themselves pretty much everything that you've said in our conversation. Tucker Carlson, you you have put at the door of the Israeli government now to some people, that will be evidence that you are anti semitic. You are anti-Jewish.
Tucker Carlson: Oh, I know. I'm very anti semitic [Laughing]. And well, first of all, the State of Israel does not speak for all Jews at all, despite its claims. It does not. There are many, many Jews, many of whom I know, who don't think the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu speaks for them.
Laura Kuenssberg: I wasn't suggesting that. [talking over each other]
Tucker Carlson: Of course you were suggesting it. I've been in this business longer than you, and I understand what a slur looks like, and you're attempting to call me an anti Semite in a passive-aggressive way. Some people would say that. Well, I'm responding to your slur and saying that it's untrue. It does not apply to me. Doubtless there are anti Semites who don't like Israel. I'm not an anti Semite. I don't hate Israel. The Israeli government--this is documented, and I saw it personally-- steered the United States into a war that hurts the United States and the world. I'm offended by that. I didn't want it and I'm mad about it. Now I have every right to feel that way. That does not make me an anti-Semite despite your insinuation. And I think it's important that I say that. And by the way, I hope that you run this. I can't control whether or not you air this exchange. I hope that you will. Because I think it's important to push back against slurs like that, because they limit our ability to understand what's actually happening. This is not an attack by Jews on the United States. This is Benjamin Netanyahu moving the United States to do something he thinks will benefit him, but that does not benefit us. It's that simple.
ON PAUL: “There’s been a coup. We don’t have any resemblance to a government that believes in a republic. We don’t have honest money. We don’t have integrity. We don’t even have people in Washington who even pretend… to tell the truth.”“[I believe the coup began on] November 22, 1963.”
IAN CROSSLAND: “What happened on that day?”
RON PAUL: “That was the day Kennedy was murdered by our government. You know, by the CIA.”
Tucker Carlson's message needs to be blasted from every corporate news outlet:
It's time not to end it, not to set up an adversarial relationship, but to set up a healthy conventional relationship where Israel can pay its own bills and fund its own military and act within the constraints imposed on it by its own economy and population. That's what normal countries do. Most countries live with neighbors that don't like them, with whom they have testy relationships. But they make accommodations because they have no choice. There's no country in the world that acts with total impunity because it knows a much larger country will backstop it no matter what it does that just doesn't exist in the natural world, because it's not natural, it's grotesque, and it's terrible for the United States, and now it's obvious.