Tough Love

Well... just about every day the Limp Wristed Lefties bleating that the sub-GED crowd is such a large part of the electorate (where's those jelly bean jar IQ tests that Confederate states used to use?) that they have to do something to carve them off from the MAGAnauts. How, exactly would that work? "Yeah, we're the reason you chuckleheads don't make $100,000 a year with no education and no skill set. It's all our fault, we know it. We'll order American Bidnezzmen to give you guys, and not those with education and skill sets, $100,000 a year." Not even The Utterly Unhinged^© is confident enough that he can bamboozle the sub-GED crowd with that one. Instead, he and the GOP going back to the Southern Strategy have sung the culture wars anthem.

What's amusing: going back forever the Evangelical Reactionary Radical Right Wingnut crowd have preached laissez faire economics, which requires that individual workers 'negotiate' with employers for wages, and the final answer will be what the employer is willing to pay. Based on education and skill set; unless the employer is your Dad, of course. The Evangelical Reactionary Radical Right Wingnuts are fully aware that they're flummoxing these bird brains; cruelty is the whole point.

The Limp Wristed Lefties have habitually been concerned with Doing Good Works, and ignored the marketing. The Utterly Unhinged^© was smart enough to be devious enough to get his signature on those stimulus checks. One might mention that Sleepy Joe's covid stimulus got the blame, a tad, for the latter inflation, but not The Utterly Unhinged^©.

It's beyond fantasy to play the same tune as Evangelical Reactionary Radical Right Wingnuts to convince the sub-GED crowd. They're in thrall to the notion that their lot in life is due, solely, to some amorphous Highly Educated Elite out to make their lives as miserable as possible. They remain certain that the cause is not the Billionaire Boy's Club to which The Utterly Unhinged^© is a card-carrying member.

What to do? What to do?

Straight talk. Tell the sub-GED crowd that the cause of their lot is that they're dumb as a sack of hair, no president or administration, Left or Right, can force employers to pay the sub-GED crowd upper-middle class wages. Never going to happen. Remind them that the Evangelical Reactionary Radical Right Wingnuts have been the bloc that have consistently blocked increases in the minimum wage for instance; "bidnezzmen simply can't afford to pay these people!!"

Remind them that Evangelical Reactionary Radical Right Wingnuts have consistently blocked aid to higher education, including STEM in high school.

In the end, it's going to be a generational slog. Neither Commie Law and the Junk Yard Dog^© nor The Utterly Unhinged^© could take out a magic wand and turn a sub-GED knuckledragger, especially the bunch that want to be that way, into an MBA or chemist or linguist. What the Limp Wristed Lefties can do is offer an opportunity to climb out of ignorance, while the MAGAnauts want to keep them with a belief in persecution and retribution. Not against their real oppressors, but the imagined Highly Educated Elite.