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Although being screwed by Republicans. Truckers are conservative and by and large Trump Humpers. They sit in their cab s 6 to 8 hrs a day, listening to hate radio, and their minds are warped, trucking is not a job, which requires any kind of menta;l skills, definitely not a place to develop critical reasoning skills.

Progressive stations were bought out by Sinclair and Heartland, and now feature sports or hate radio.

Democracy's problem is that there are no progressive billionaires, because when they become millionaires, the only thing that they are concerned with is their own money, status, and power and thus perceive progressives, the supposed base of the Democratic party, as a threat to be extinguished, that they might have perpetual peace, to enjoy their ill gotten wealth and power

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True, but if DNC knew what it were doing, as to truckers, they'd pierce through....

Speak to them individually, they get it...especially repetitive trauma.

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Alas the DNC is run by a bunch of Troglydytes who live in the past, and can't change their ways and methodology, for doing so admits error, and people do not like admitting error. The belief is that if one is wrong about one thing, then they are wrong about everything, and besides rewriting the play book is time consuming tedious, and upsetting to the status quo.

I've said it before. The playbook of the DNC is to appease the Chamber of Commerce, PhRMA and AHIP, not to mention Bill Clinton's true love, international financial institutions, he praised them at least 21 times in his speeches, no wonder look who helped him get elected and took care of him after he left office.

The Democrats have a stable of old tired race horses, that pad around the paddock, acquiring what the party thinks are the necessary creds, like foreign service (our economy is global and dependent on foreign relations,trade, money exchange. As a result that put up old tired race horses like Hillary and Terry McAuliffe and are surprised when they lose elections.

The Republicans don't have a stable, they have a finger on the pulse of America, and the pulse is patriarchal, misoygnistic, anti LGBT racist and theocratic.Thus the rise of the Mike Johnson's and Donald J Trump, these people are the avatars of the Republican voter.

What progressives exist in the Democratic Party are anomalies, and represent districts which are safe, until they are Jerry Mandered, but the power in the Democratic party, like Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel, hate progressives, because progressives will raise taxes on the 10%, and it is the 10% that feed the DNC

I completely understand the apathy of minority groyps and even women, towards the Democratic Party, come electioneering they are very vocal, about equality,diversity, civil and human rights, but once elections are over, the promises are forgotten and ignoredd and it is business as usual, chasing petro dollars, PhRMA, AHIP, Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and today Big Tech.

However the constituents who have been used and neglected, haven't forgot and apathy sets in, even if it means electing their radical anemies to office. Humans have a penchant for cutting off the nose to spite the face. Ignore them, betray them and they have a burning desire to get even. The Democratic party has a problem, the needs and demands of it's base, and the needs and demands of it's donors.

Guess which has priority, no money or lots of money.

During the same interregnum in which a Democratic house, senate and executive (21 days) in wich they passed the Respect for Marriage Act, they could have passed an act that made Woman's health care, the law of the land, however too many Democrats knew that such a bill would be disadvantageous for their re election chances, and knew that gay marriage was no longer a major issue, and had been accepted (because people realized that it was not a threat to male domination, and female sovereignty is.

Keeping wages low, means keeping a positive return on investment high, and thus the Democrats talk labor, but do little about it when in power, on the contrary the likes of the Clinton's are anti labor, as Clinton's signing of NAFT and GAAT, created the swing states, which now determine the Presidential election.

Democrats always srambling for big bucks from the PTB, don't walk the talk, and people are catching on.

Want to take a stab at who profited from the bank bailout of Obama, and who ultimately profited from the Inflation Reduction Act, especially when many of the contracts wound up in global and even foreign corporations, and the reduction in the price of insulin only applies to Medicare, but not to the uninsured or private insurance.

Once again I am stuck with the choice of voting for pragmatic, spineless cowards, because the alternative Theocratic, white nationalist bigoted fascists are a threat I doubt I will survive.

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