• soviettaters@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They’re not a monolith but the majority, or at least a substantial portion, of blue-collar workers are proudly socially conservative.

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      1 year ago

      And the answer to that is to work on ways to make them, as a demographic, less socially conservative; or as individuals, to communicate the importance of such issues. Not to abandon those issues for the sake of pandering to their votes.

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately you are right. I am a proud union blue collar worker, and I have seen the same thing. The problem I’ve noticed is that they tend to be socially conservative due to years of fear mongering by assholes who want to exploit us. They use that fear to keep is fighting amongst ourselves instead of recognizing the real problems.