Does not resonate
We read that Edwards' message doesn't resonate, and of course, it doesn't -- things aren't bad enough, the social distance between the people who live "in need" or "at risk" and those who don't, remains an unbridgeable chasm, and of course, the MSM "resonates" a very select range of messages.
AT&T terminated access lines to almost half a million residences in July, August and September. The trend for October, November and December is more terminations, not less. AT&T is not (yet) disclosing how many $50/mo price-point (aka "broad band") connections are in default each month, or in effect converting to $5/mo price point (aka "dial-up") connections.
The man who parks his car in front of the playground every day at 9am, and sits there, all day, and at 5pm moves his car to site #19, who hasn't been voted for years, won't be voted in the current cycle, because the Democratic Party doesn't vote his kind of people. Assisted housing wasn't voted by Portland Dems, and mobile home parks, public travel trailer and private "RV parks" aren't voted, and for sure the Dems don't vote work camps. Not worker camps -- that a UFW problem. Not the camps, because poverty -- clapped out cars and clapped out campers and clapped out trucks pulling clapped out trailers, all firing on three out of four cylinders on moving day, all having to pack up and move every 7 or 14 days, even if one day "out" before another 7 or 14 days "in" ... not to mention the tens of thousands of full-time or snow-bird retired couples and singles who manage to get their RVs or trailers to BLM "extended stay" no-pay camps in the desert each winter...
The color line is still intact, and it will remain so until there is no social chasm between those who shop at the thrift shops, the donation outlets, and eventually the food pantries, and those who's politics is limited to friends-don't-let-frineds-shop-WalMart, which is miles away from "don't let friends go broke and cry in unrelieved dispair". This line hasn't been broken in my lifetime, it was in my parent's lifetime. My mom's 80. She spent her teens in a travel trailer between Philly and LA, and in her time, both townies and campies voted, not just the more fortunate townies.
Nader's critique is that both parties are corporatist. Ours is too well off to truck with the poor.
Kevin's a janitor. Susie is working poor. We live in camps and have been on relief and off. Not many of us who blog write about poverty from experience.
