Who represents the Working Class?

Discussion in 'Opinion POLLS' started by other guy, Sep 18, 2011.

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Which party best represents the Working Class

Poll closed Sep 25, 2011.
  1. Republicans

    11 vote(s)
    55.0%
  2. Democrats

    9 vote(s)
    45.0%
  1. GlobalHumanism

    GlobalHumanism New Member

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    Neither. The ACP [American Communist Party] should but they suck as well.

    Marxism needs another jolt in this country
     
  2. BuckNaked

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    My lord did you go to public school? Ladies and gentlemen please help save a mind from the "world economy" new math, and give til it hurts. :wink:




    I'm pretty sure it wasn't selling our government to the highest bidder and allowing outsourcing to become the norm.
     
  3. SiliconMagician

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    Most people who work for most corporations are quite happy with the way their employers treat them, hence the lack of union membership in America. If the majority of working Americans actually felt exploited, they would unionize more. There is nothing stopping them from doing so. American workers aren't exploited, we just don't need that many of them anymore and as time goes by, either through globalization or factory automation, there will be need for less and less as time goes by. Better get used to it.
     
  4. BuckNaked

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    And there you have it folks, such illogical nonsense, and the real goal of the rich/elite world wide.
     
     
    The elimination of people as a whole is the true goal of corporations who are and have assumed the role of the "new" people. And with them, who needs the old living, breathing, reproducing, slobbering, drooling, farting, belching, eating, defecating version of, you know, actual people.
     
     
    Remember you heard it here first. You are the problem and it is you that must be eliminated, beep, beep, danger Will Robinson, danger...
     
  5. Buzz62

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    We're gonna find out who supports the working class right after Obama delivers his jobs plan.

    I bet the Republicans are gonna jump all over it and never pass it.

    Which will utterly destroy them with the working class.

    Have a nice day...T-Baggers and T-Slaves...LOL
     
  6. skeptic-f

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    I clicked Democrats because they have traditionally been more supporters of the working class and because the Republicans apparently only care about the rich. Having said that, I don't think either Democrats or Republicans represent the working class. Effectively a sizeable chunk of the voting public has no real representation in Congress and by an amazing coincidence the working class keeps getting shafted by Congress in recent years.
     
  7. waltky

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    possum fer Prez'dent...

    ... a balogna sammich in every pot!
    :mrgreen:
     
  8. Serfin' USA

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    Neither does a particularly good job, but if I have to pick between the two, it would be the Democrats.
     
  9. Flag

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    Good for americans, not so good for the countries and slaves explored in the 3rd world.

    (*)(*)(*)(*) corporations.
     
  10. PatrickT

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    Totally pointless. (*)(*)(*)(*)ed deadbeats whose dream is to just take what they want. They aren't working class. They're the Deadbeat Class.
     
  11. Til the Last Drop

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    Like police officers? Are those people part of the deadbeat class too? Since you're Mexican now, how about you stick to trolling their forums. If they got any.
     
  12. JavaBlack

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    Unions are the only organized institutions that stand up for the working class. They are part of the Democratic coalition mostly, but Democrats do not always support them, nor do all Republicans (particularly at the local level) have animosity toward them.

    Of course the role of the union as lobbyist is the least appreciated one... and arguably the only useful role they have left!
     
  13. CMF

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    The question itself is moot.

    There is no such thing as the "working class". Some people who do manual labor get wealthy in the process. Some people with desk jobs make barely above minimum wage. Anyone with a job is a worker. You don't get more respect because you make less money. The "class" you fall into has less to do with what you earn than it does with what you do with what you earn. My father-in-law made less than I do but because of saving all his life coupled with wise investments... he is financially secure for life and beyond. Anyone who saw his lifestyle would never consider him the "working class". Most liberals would think he is the evil rich who aren't paying their fair share.

    I care less about "classes" and mora about which party places the interests of the tax payers above the interests of the tax burdens.
     
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    Neither. Both parties are essentially the same.
     
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    The Democrats have the reputation of being there for the Working Class.
     
  16. Xanzia

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    Neither, and that is why Trump is going to be the next president of the USA. National Socialism does represent the working class. Trump is a) a right-wing politician and b) plays to the working class.

    A + B = National Socialism. This is true by definition, so there is no denying it.
     
  17. HailVictory

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    Both parties have their elites and working citizens. Trump and Hillary are clear examples. Both are party elites that do not represent the working class.
     
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    I'm sorry, but "he [Joseph Goebbels] stressed the need for the party [NSDAP] to emphasise both a proletarian and national character." National Socialism represents the working class but still keeps an moderately accessible elite class to keep social order (social mobility is possible but hard enough to incite people to work, but certain policies cater to the working class to make their lives better). As for Trump, he is no National Socialist. Hitler would hate him. Because he represents everything that the Jews had back in Germany. The Jews made up a strong elite class in Germany, and preferred the top down capitalist elite that Trump does. They still do today, Jews are usually conservative rich. Now, I'm no anti-Semite, so don't get confused, but I hate it when people liken Trump to the National Socialist party because it is completely the wrong way around. People no longer know the definition of Fascist and National Socialist and merely throw around these terms as political insults (victim to both parties). Sorry about the rant, this really irks me.
     
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    That is a good question........
    I do believe that The Donald will come up with policies that will fit in better with the wishes of
    working class Americans...... but The Donald is NOT your typical G.O.P. member at all.



    http://www.politicalforum.com/jfk/453840-donald-feared-because-he-might-turn-out-another-jfk.html

    Is The Donald feared because he might turn out to be another JFK?
     
  20. AlpinLuke

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    What I know is that Mrs Clinton doesn't represent the working class. At least Trump knows it [being a businessman, you know ...]. Mrs Clinton has studied, studies, studied ... then after a brief legal career she has been first lady of the Arkansas, first lady of the United States ... Senator [is it a job?] and finally Secretary of State ... and as Secretary of State I have to admit that she worked a bit ... even bringing her job at home [keeping email on a private server, but you know ... if you decide to work at home ...].
     
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    Since you didn't offer a "neither" option, I didn't vote in the poll.

    The Democratic and Republican parties are only nominally political parties in today's environment. They would be more accurately described as factions within the ruling oligarchy. They represent the interests, obviously, of the people who pay their salaries - and I'm not referring to the chump change they get from the government.
     
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    you sometimes have to represent yourself, as a Person of the People.
     
  23. 9/11 was an inside job

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    Neither.Both parties are corrupt.Its in reality a ONE PARTY SYSTEM designed to look like two so the sheep think they have a choice in who gets elected that is WHY the independent never wins.They wont have someone like gary johnson in office who believes in the constitution.
     

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