The Working Class Project conducted a new survey of registered working class voters, who express serious concerns with tariffs, DOGE cuts, and GOP budget proposals
What about the idea of raising corporate tax rates 15%, and if a corporate has a "family friendly" policy which pays working class people a living wage and promotes the affordability of having kids, that 15% increase is exempt. Working families should be encouraged to save 30% of their wage increase for their children and 20% for a rainy day fund. Perhaps once working class has extra cash they will start saving it and building assets.
I would like to register concerns with current messaging on the use of the word 'woke' by some members. The shear use of it by Democrats, even in dispelling it, has a reinforcing effect because it becomes associative with their issues. Propositions for the economy, even when focused on facts and textualized in experience, will, undoubtedly, become shrouded by the term and fixed in the minds of voters. So, I would recommend efforts to quell this messaging. Focus on real world issues: less shipping traffic from international business at ports, impacts to the trucking industry, empty store shelves and on the erratic decision making process of this administration. It's not about fixing a negative image of Democrats but rather showing the deficit in Republican leadership: their tanking the economy and ceding the U.S.'s trade position.
I guess those are good numbers for now but what concerns me at the values hard work and patriotism. I believe the hard work question is particularly a problem because democrats do not have as many of these jobs anymore (nor do they aspire to work on a conveyor belt). Democrats value improving their position in life which often means moving on from stepping stone jobs. The general America was not taught that. The new workforce values job hopping to get ahead. Democrats need to own more of the companies these folks work for and create environments where liberalism is rewarded. We need to dig this all out of the dirt.
I can not, for the life of me, understand how Trump and/or the republicans numbers are as high as they are. We really, really need to do something about Fox, and their ilk, that do nothing but lie and the 'main stream media' that sanewashes everything. Way too many people aren't getting the true story about anything and are so terribly uninformed.
Encouraging but we've also seen that there has been a willingness to make dramatic shifts in policy positions and retreat in an astounding fashion, so as to alter voter opinion. Just look at the sea change taken to allow support of the abortion referenda in the states during the 2024 election. It placed the Dems on their back foot because women could vote to maintain abortion rights while still voting for the republican candidate.
The Reps have time to recover from this. Although the 10 percent tariffs are in place, the extreme tariffs have not gone into effect. Supply chain issues can be relieved because the CEOs have given their warning shot and it's an opportunity to, at least, look like remedies are being sought.
I would suggest that survey questions look at voters choices in light of a potential economic rebound. If it's just a pocketbook issue, they might not be persuadable if things 'appear' better. To me, the question is whether they, and the economy can stomach the erratic style of this administration. The money markets are off, the bond markets are off, our military alliances are off, our trade opportunities are off, and we are unreliable partners in the international community that we built. Having said that, it's my opinion that the democracy and due process position remains strong.
Happy to say more, but I've probably gone on long enough.
What about the idea of raising corporate tax rates 15%, and if a corporate has a "family friendly" policy which pays working class people a living wage and promotes the affordability of having kids, that 15% increase is exempt. Working families should be encouraged to save 30% of their wage increase for their children and 20% for a rainy day fund. Perhaps once working class has extra cash they will start saving it and building assets.
Thanks for your comment. We hope you keep following along to learn more as we’re listening to working class voters.
I would like to register concerns with current messaging on the use of the word 'woke' by some members. The shear use of it by Democrats, even in dispelling it, has a reinforcing effect because it becomes associative with their issues. Propositions for the economy, even when focused on facts and textualized in experience, will, undoubtedly, become shrouded by the term and fixed in the minds of voters. So, I would recommend efforts to quell this messaging. Focus on real world issues: less shipping traffic from international business at ports, impacts to the trucking industry, empty store shelves and on the erratic decision making process of this administration. It's not about fixing a negative image of Democrats but rather showing the deficit in Republican leadership: their tanking the economy and ceding the U.S.'s trade position.
I guess those are good numbers for now but what concerns me at the values hard work and patriotism. I believe the hard work question is particularly a problem because democrats do not have as many of these jobs anymore (nor do they aspire to work on a conveyor belt). Democrats value improving their position in life which often means moving on from stepping stone jobs. The general America was not taught that. The new workforce values job hopping to get ahead. Democrats need to own more of the companies these folks work for and create environments where liberalism is rewarded. We need to dig this all out of the dirt.
Thanks for your comment. We hope you keep following along to learn more as we’re listening to working class voters.
I can not, for the life of me, understand how Trump and/or the republicans numbers are as high as they are. We really, really need to do something about Fox, and their ilk, that do nothing but lie and the 'main stream media' that sanewashes everything. Way too many people aren't getting the true story about anything and are so terribly uninformed.
Encouraging but we've also seen that there has been a willingness to make dramatic shifts in policy positions and retreat in an astounding fashion, so as to alter voter opinion. Just look at the sea change taken to allow support of the abortion referenda in the states during the 2024 election. It placed the Dems on their back foot because women could vote to maintain abortion rights while still voting for the republican candidate.
The Reps have time to recover from this. Although the 10 percent tariffs are in place, the extreme tariffs have not gone into effect. Supply chain issues can be relieved because the CEOs have given their warning shot and it's an opportunity to, at least, look like remedies are being sought.
I would suggest that survey questions look at voters choices in light of a potential economic rebound. If it's just a pocketbook issue, they might not be persuadable if things 'appear' better. To me, the question is whether they, and the economy can stomach the erratic style of this administration. The money markets are off, the bond markets are off, our military alliances are off, our trade opportunities are off, and we are unreliable partners in the international community that we built. Having said that, it's my opinion that the democracy and due process position remains strong.
Happy to say more, but I've probably gone on long enough.
Thanks for your suggestion! We hope you keep following along to learn more as we’re listening to working class voters.
Why don't we hand the "Waffle" crown to Trump? He's certainly more deserving. The comms. team needs to come up with more barbs like this.