General Discussion

The one thing in your post I take issue with is that Democrats used to take better care of these folks. Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, and Joe Biden accomplished a lot before R's took back the House.

To be sure, the common folk have still been handed the short end of the stick -- to a large extent because Republicans consistently obstruct efforts to achieve a more equitable share of the tremendous wealth which could not be generated without the labor of so many struggling paycheck to paycheck.

And yet these same folks keep electing Republicans, voting against their own interests. Did they intentionally vote to pay more for insurance or lose their healthcare coverage altogether? Did they want Project 2025, or did they believe Trump when he said he had nothing to do with it?

Is it because they're filled with fear and hate for undocumented immigrants, non whites, non heteros, liberals, atheists?

To some extent, that is certainly true. And they are adults responsible for their own actions. It's easy to blame them for what is now hitting all of us.

But hate and blame will not help defeat the fascist cabal destroying our Constituutional democracy. We should not expect to convert die hard Trump cultists, but it makes no sense to deliberately alienate folks who were fooled into voting against their own interests.

We need swing voters in swing states to swing back the other way.