Exactly what is driving the trend is manifold, but increases in healthcare, education and hospitality jobs — industries dominated by women — compared to shrinking jobs in the male-dominated tech, business, and manufacturing worlds appear to be playing a sizable role, Ullrich said.

Fewer jobs in business and tech is probably a good thing, but they need to be replaced with manufacturing, construction and jobs in the trades. We need more healthcare workers and more education workers, but we’re going to need more factory workers, construction workers and trade workers, too, when we inevitability realize that a functioning economy needs to build and make things, and not just endlessly move money around.

I wish moderate libs would understand that the demsocs are helping to move the Overton window further left, which is a good thing because it’s moved way too far to the right due to the ratchet effect. I mean, Jesus, do libs not know how to negotiate? You know compromise will be necessary, so start left of the position you want to end up at. You start at democratic socialism but you end up at a relatively modest, European style social democracy. If that’s too far left for you, well, you might as well just cut the crap and join the Republican party now.

Without the manufacturing build-out, our estimates suggest, Harris would have lost that state by three times as much as she did.

So their conclusion is that without the IRA, the Dems would have lost even worse. Liberals sure do love their moral victories.

I am so sick of these hyper rich psycho assholes.

He continued in a similar, ranty vein, “Don’t believe the Radical Left’s Fake Poll numbers. They are Crooked and Corrupt, just like the Country Destroying Dumocrats are Crooked and Corrupt. VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR GREATNESS IN AMERICA!”

I realize a lot of Americans hate the radical left, but could they really be any worse than these shit-for-brains Republicans? And I’m not talking about violent Stalin apologists, who are essentially non-existent offline, but democratic socialists.

I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you, but it’s a little confusing to me why that is. I mean, aren’t working class people the vast majority of eligible voters? It seems to me that if you could get a majority of working class people on your side, you’d win every election in a landslide.

But, I suppose that depends on how one defines “working class.” It doesn’t necessarily mean the same thing to everyone.

Well, an actual workers or labor party might be one possibility. Neither of the two parties in the US can really be described as a workers party (as in, a party of, by and for working class people), or even a party that makes the concerns of working people one of their priorities.

I do think the Democrats have been more receptive to working class people and their issues than the Republicans, though that is a very low bar. When the only other party in the country is actively, aggressively hostile to working people, it’s not hard to be the better option for labor (despite that very low bar the Democrats have still somehow struggled to clear it, at times).

That said, even when the Democrats are “pro-labor” it’s been in a condescending or patronizing way. The Republicans hate the working class, Democrats pity them, in a very infantilizing way. They feel they must shepherd the working class because they are too stupid, too crass, too uncouth and incompetent to lead and direct their own movement, so the smart, educated elites must do it for them.

For the American left, in the 2028 presidential election, there is a straightforward answer to that question: AOC must run for president. If she doesn’t, she is leaving significant gains on the table. Not gains for her; gains for the movement, for the working class, for progress, and for the world.

If the Left really cared about the working class (they don’t), they’d let the working class choose their own leader (they won’t).

Now, to be fair, this is by no means exclusive to the Left. Neither liberals or conservatives are willing to give the working class any kind of real power or autonomy, either. No one is.

The county isn’t really divided by state lines, it’s divided by: urban v rural, college educated v non educated and rich v poor, as well culture, ethnicity and religion.

I would say the “heartland” of America is relatively culturally homogeneous, and many, if not most people from the heartland definitely seem not to like or trust the Pacific Coast states or the Northeast/Atlantic Coast area. If there’s a big political divide in America I’d say it’s more the interior v the coasts and big cities v small towns than red states v blue states.

We are going to avoid doing the hard things until the hard things are forced upon us.

Likely true. And when that time comes, I think it’s going to be rough.

Major change wouldn’t be easy

I think our aversion to anything difficult or challenging is a big part of the problem. We’ve gotten really bad at doing things that are hard. Unfortunately, though, I don’t think we can just avoid doing hard things forever.

You’ll soon find out just out devoted to creating jobs businesses really are.

Yeah, because jobs and innovation have only ever been produced indirectly as a result of capitalism. The point isn’t to create jobs, the point isn’t to innovate, the point is to make as much profit as possible. If capitalists can make profits without innovating or creating jobs, they’re happy to do it.

More importantly, economies generally grow by encouraging innovation rather than limiting it.

Granted, reasonable people can disagree about Musk’s leadership style or his public statements. But creating businesses that generate jobs, technological advances, and shareholder value is ultimately how wealth is created in the first place.

Important insights (/s) from a capitalism cultist.

So the US economy is capitalism, just a flawed version of it? If so, what would a “shining example” of capitalism be?

Anyone who thinks that the US is a shining example of “capitalism” is a fucking imbecile.

If the US economic system isn’t capitalism, what is it? Can you give an example of a currently existing national economy that is capitalism?

The findings may allay concerns of centrist Democrats

I doubt it. I’m sure they’re far more concerned about this:

Capitalism remains more popular than socialism in the U.S., the poll found, but has declined in public sentiment in recent years as socialism has gained.

I am economically left, yes. I’m also a leftist who thinks you have to meet the working class where they are, and it seems to me most working class people in America are not necessarily socially progressive, especially on trans issues. That doesn’t necessarily mean most working class people are hostile to trans people, but some, many even, have strong feelings about gender identity, especially when it comes to children. I think it is a huge mistake to alienate a large percentage of the working class for the sake of a relatively small number of people and a niche issue. Again, I don’t think most working class Americans are necessarily anti-trans. I think most working class Americans are perfectly willing to adopt a live and let live attitude toward trans people. But I think it’s potentially a wedge issue, and I think the conservatives know that and that’s why they won’t shut up about it. The best thing the left can do is not take the bait and be diligent in steering the conversation back to the day to day economic issues that actually affect the majority of working class people.

Edit: I keep seeing the slippery slope logical fallacy in the responses to my comment. It’s ridiculous to suggest that what I’m talking about will inevitably lead to trans people being rounded up and put into extermination camps. That’s very extreme. As I’ve already said, I think most working class people are more than willing to let trans people be. Many of you are mistaking indifference for hatred. Violent hatred, even. I’m not denying the existence of people who do have a violent hatred of trans people, but those people are a very small minority and in no way indicative of the working class generally.

Well, maybe we don’t live in a polite society. I don’t know what to tell you. Bitch, complain, act indignant all you want it ain’t gonna change the fact that a lot of Americans don’t necessarily hold progress attitudes on these gender critical issues. I think most people are perfectly fine minding their own business, it’s just their business doesn’t include trans issues or concerns.

Try it

I’m not going to try anything. I’m going to mind my own business and avoid interacting with you if at all possible.

Apparently there is a relatively large number of Americans who either don’t know about this or know but don’t care.