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[The Backlash Cometh]

Blue Collar workers are the voter group which the Democrats should be going after. And they can do it if they stop and think about the basics. These people have been talking to you all, but nobody is listening to them from our side. When the Right griped about hispanics taking over their jobs, everyone immediately assumed this was all about picking crops. It was not about farmwork. There are a lot of other jobs that blue collar workers are fighting for where they compete with minority groups. Landscaping and yardwork is one of them.

In California you may have Mexicans do landscaping and yard work. In Florida, where the education level is crap, blue collar workers depend on lawn work for their livelihood. They own their own hitches and riding mowers. On Thursdays, especially when the rest of the week has been rained out, you can see them all come out to knock out the yards. Each one operates with the same equipment. It's a business industry.

So, Obama is very wrong if he thinks that low level jobs, like call centers, are not desired by Americans. These are the VERY jobs we should be fighting for if you want the blue collar vote.

I think this is why we lost Jacksonville in the Florida elections. I have a friend who lives there. Very blue collar. She is a Democrat but as long as I've known her she has dated rednecks so our relationship has periods where I don't get to see her at all. Anyway, I spoke to her recently and she said she liked Jacksonville better than Orlando because there was lots to do for people who don't have money. She says there are a lot of free concerts to go to and these free concerts are what? Country. Guess what she's hearing for free? Right-wing propaganda. But she doesn't think of it that way because what she has is a place that wants her and offers her and her family a community, despite her lack of money.

She didn't like the Central Florida area because the area where she lived in the suburbs was trying to upscale their image and that meant getting rid of people like her. It's an irony because it's an upscale Republican City she use to live in that began to make City ordinances that made it harder for blue collar workers to stick around. Those ordinances were changed intentionally to upscale the area. Yet, she doesn't see this as a Republican agenda. Instead, she blames this abstract enemy that everybody knows as City Hall or government. And everyone knows that "government" translates to Democrats.

So there you have it. The people that these blue collar workers blame for their lack of jobs are Democrats and minorities, even though it's the Republicans and their high and falooting ideals that are making it difficult for them to make ends meet. If the Democrats can't wrap their minds around this disconnect before the next election, we are lost.

You give these blue collar workers jobs and you win the next election. It's that easy.