A new manifesto by the nonprofit American Compass capably identifies the problems facing the working class but stumbles on the solutions—especially labor unions.

A new manifesto by the nonprofit American Compass capably identifies the problems facing the working class but stumbles on the solutions—especially labor unions.

  • dumples
    10•1 year ago

    I think the funniest thing about the rebranding of conservatives as Working Class party is their strange definitions of thing. The article mentions a “workers organization” which is just a union but unions are bad. Same thing with a working class. This doesn’t include retail workers, office workers, people who pick our food or people who make minimum wage. They do include Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Working class is pretty much white men who agree with me.

    • @Sooperstition
      2•1 year ago

      They’re producerists ([https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/producerism](followers of producerism)

      Class collaborators with another coat of paint. The danger is that some of their ideas are good, like clawing back banker bonuses and sectoral bargaining. This can peel off the working class to support fascists.