Unless of course they are in a union.

Via The Nation:

The Republican Party has pretty much abandoned any pretense of being a traditional political party. It’s in lockstep obedience to the very rich, the super-rich and the corporate sector. They can’t get votes that way, so they have to mobilize a different constituency. It’s always been there, but it’s rarely been mobilized politically. They call it the religious right, but basically it’s the extreme religious population. The US is off the spectrum in religious commitment. It’s been increasing since 1980, but now it’s a major part of the voting base of the Republican Party, so that means committing to anti-abortion positions, opposing women’s rights. […]

The US is a country [in which] 80 percent of the population thinks the Bible was written by God. About half think every word is literally true. So it’s had to appeal to that—and to the nativist population, the people that are frightened, have always been.

It’s a very frightened country, and that’s increasing now with the recognition that the white population is going to be a minority pretty soon, “they’ve taken our country from us.” That’s the Republicans. There are no more moderate Republicans. They are now the centrist Democrats. Of course the Democrats are drifting to the right right after them. The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that’s not their concern.

HT: Fox Nation