Voters do not adjust because they don’t care. They are configured because they were exhausted by a false election sold both parties and tired of invalidity.
Last week is short Video of one of my speeches It is rapidly spreading online. Now it has passed 8 million views and 707 km, both throughout the Tickle and Instagram. I was shocked because it was a pretty simple testimony “Folk hearing“In North Carolina. In it I talked about pollution, corporate greed and a united working class.
The most surprising thing is not only the progressives shared it. Its most enthusiastic audience included white working class men in Apolochia, native aunts in the southwest, Philippine trade union workers in the Midwestern, and mothers who once supported Obama, then Bernie, then RFK, then Trump. Some Christian GOP voters said the speech had moved them to tears – despite its unmistakably progressive solutions. This Teak Comment from my video received 21.6 km, many of the conservative accounts: “We need this man in American politics. We allowed corporations to have too much effort.”
Here, in Hawaii, even some of my most voice critics – the people who opposed every company I spent, if I have been praised. Not because they suddenly changed their views, but because they felt heard. They acknowledged something in a message that corresponded to their values: pride, sense of responsibility to the community and belief that ordinary people deserve clean air, safe water and control over their lives.
The reaction confirmed what I believed for years: many of the voters who have been written off were never really conservative. They variation voters. And we still have the opportunity to return them back.
I was 23 years old, running in the conservative area. I told the truth and won.
I learned about it first -mouth when I was elected to Hawaii at the age of 23. I was a long-shot-democrat that ruled one of the most conservative areas of the state. My opponent was well funded by the republican leader. The consultants told me to play safety and avoid controversial topics. I didn’t listen.
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Instead I was openly talked Monsont spray pesticides with limited use Next to the schools of our community. I talked about children who are ill, contaminated water and speech to corporate force. I didn’t create it both to the left or right. I made it out as common sense. And rural, voters of the working class responded.
I won this race, saying the truth, not pretending to be moderate, but showing people that I was on their side. This is still the formula we need today.
These voters are not confused. They are consistent.
We often hear that the working class has become politically unpredictable. What the voters supported by Obama then Bernie, then Trump tolerate flip-pools or are guided by misinformation. I don’t see it. These voters are extremely consistent. They want anyone who will fight for them will call what is wrong, but who is not afraid of powerful.
When I talk to people who say they are “relying correctly”, they usually just mean They lost faith in the Democrats. So I ask what they actually believe in. Most tax corporations support, destroying monopolies, ending endless wars and environmental protection. These are not conservative ideas. They are progressive. But without a clear, honest voice to the left of this case, people will monitor who sounds like them. Even if this person turns out to be fraud.
However, many organizers, supporters and especially democratic politicians have forgotten to talk to people as people. We sound like press issues or political panels. We speak a language built for sponsors or Twitter – not for kebabs and rooms. When people do not feel visible and don’t talk, they stop listening.
Trump not just won. He turned his party.
Before Donald Trump won the presidency, he had to take over the Republican Party. And he did it by running up to economic left GOP –Confrontation nafta. Banking Bankers Wall Street Bankersand promising ends endless wars.
It was not honest, but it was strategically. He sent the economic pain of people to a nationalist message and went straight to the place that the Democrats ignored. While our side clung to cities and elite powers, he surrounded himself with rural working class. He entered their cities and said to them, “I see you.” And although most of them were con, they listened because no one else had.
Trump actually built a “multinational working class movement” we are talking about. He accepted a strategy that was supposed to be ours: to build power from forgotten places; Speak boldly and demand a lot of changes. And we still play catching up.
Introduction should not mean exception
Movement is possible to nominate nationalism, and the left often recede from it. And for a good reason. Nationalism, as we have seen, is unfolding, often meant exceptions, fear and violence. But we cannot ignore the emotional terrain it uses.
People want something to belong. They want to be proud of where they are from to feel that they have a share in their homeland. This is inherently not right. It’s a man. In the indigenous settlements, we often say: “Our ancestors are in this land,” or “our bones are in the soil.” This is not nationalism in the sense of magic. This is a deep sense of place and purpose. And so some indigenous people hear rhetoric about the honor and protection and feel attracted to it, even if the policy behind it, in principle, opposes their values.
The same for many immigrants. In its countries, the national pride is woven into everyday life, not as a rule, but as an identity and dignity. When they come here, the only people who talk about the honor, the matter, are not difficult to understand why some seek in this direction.
Left does not need to accept nationalism. But we need to use the emotional force of pride and protection, while maintaining the inclusion and welcoming a broad society. We can talk about the need for people in rooting, building solidarity with the global working class.
That’s what I tried to do in this speech. Obama -style pluralism, Bernie -style substance. A message that centers are landed, work and love, and make room for everyone.
What works in New York can work in rural cities when we listen
In New Yar, Democratic Socialist Zohran Mammani wins the bold agenda: free public transit, rental control, child care. His success is not only in politics. This is moral clarity behind them. He speaks with conviction, and it cut through the noise.
The same clarity can work in rural places, but the message must match the setting. In many small cities, availability is not a leading problem. What resonates more is the land, identity and idea to return the village. Literally and spiritually.
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Say, “Let’s return the land to the locals, not the developer.” Say, “Let’s build food systems where families can farm again and fish.” Say, “You deserve the upbringing of children where you were raised.” This is an emotional truth. And if we match this with real policy, we win.
Four things that left can do to return these voters
1. Call the corporate power clearly and consistently. People know who is robbing them. Salaries are equal, costs increase, and the graphics corporations are in record earnings. If the Democrats do not call this problem, they are accompanied.
2. Make the environment personal. Don’t talk about carbon displacement. Talk about asthma, poisoned wells and places where water is not safe to drink. People care about the earth. Talk to that.
3. Say “working class” and mean everyone. Black, white, native, immigrant, red states, blue states: everyone deserves dignity. Solidarity does not mean ignoring differences. This means organizing on them.
4. Offer true, solutions for common sense. Free transit. Rental control. Antimonopoly. Care for children. Earth back. Local food and energy. These are not terry ideas. They are just good and people are hungry for them.
The reason why this speech was viral was not me. It was a moment. People do not adjust because they don’t care. They are configured because they were exhausted by a false election sold both parties and tired of invalidity.
They do not expect the savior. They are waiting for something true. The fact that the noise cut, tells the truth and gives them reason to rely again.
Let’s stop writing a working class. Let’s start writing back.
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