THE ELECTION ISSUE: VOLUME 10, ISSUE 18
THE MANUFACTURERS
by Malik Isasis

















The corporate media’s impulse to use race in the most derogatory, and abusive means of explaining voting patterns, has been a way to define Barack Obama. Ever since Ohio, it’s been the trumpeting of the Working Class Voters ® and how Obama has not connected to the Reagan-Democrats®

Working Class Voters ® is code, well, was code until Clinton decided to decode the slogan out in public with this statement to a reporter:

"You know, there was just an article posted that found how Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans -- white Americans -- is weakening again, and how the whites in both states (Indiana and North Carolina), who had not completed college were supporting me," Mrs. Clinton said. "These are the people you have to win, if you're a Democrat, in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that."

For those of us who are black, we already knew what the code “Working Class Voters” meant. Political operatives and pundits talk code as if they’re talking over our heads. We get it. We just have no voice in the corporate media to refute the bullshit that pundits throw up out of their mouths.

First of all, I’d like to refute the folklore of Reagan Democrats ®, which seems to be perpetrated by the corporate meat puppets. There is no such thing as a Reagan Democrat®, those Democrats who voted for Reagan 28 years ago became Republicans. Reagan Democrats® is only a marketing ploy to push Banana Republicanism.

The Manufacturing Job

The Republicans have sloganeered their way into power using extremely simple answers for complex issues. In fact, a Republican can solve all of your life woes with two simple answers: Tax Cuts® and Smaller Government®

Bush has OD’d on Tax Cuts® --if Tax Cuts ® were heroin, Bush would have been found in an alley covered in his own vomit.

"Mr. President, what is your plan for New Orleans?"

"Tax Cuts."

"Mr. President, what is your plan for the war?"

"The war has been good for the economy. I'd like to make my tax cuts permanent."

"Mr. President, how do you plan to address global warming?"

"I think it's important for government to stay out of regulating businesses. Regulations don't stimulate the economy, tax cuts do. I'm asking congress to support my tax incentives for corporations willing to self-regulate."

My rendition of a Bush press conference would be hyperole if it didn't represent the truth about Republicanism. The corporate media and Bush have been doing this dog and pony show for 8 years. The corporate part of the media is out to protect their interests, and their ability as Kingmakers give them great influence over politicians striving for more than just doing the right thing for the people. The corporate pirates benefit by having ego-driven politicos like Bush who are more than happy to put on kneepads in the name of self interest. Those who suck the hardest will get all the benefit of the media’s deep reach, and their subsidiaries' coffers.

I’m getting real tired, real quick of the corporate bullshitters saying that Obama has a Working Class Voters® problem. In 15 months, Obama has run a near perfect campaign, all those years as a community organizer has helped him raise more money than anyone else in the history of politics, yet when he loses the states that he is suppose to lose, the corporate toads move the goal posts.

The corporate media has indulged the Working Class Voters®, The Values Voters® and their racism. The corporate media has treated this group with a preciousness that no other “Working Class” receives. Even though there are millions of working class voters in communities of color, only white working class voters’ voices matter. It’s amazing to me that the corporate media can always find a way to make white folk, victims, and underdogs in spite of the reality.

During no other time are white working class voters more important than every election cycle. When the election cycles passes, the Working Class Voters® are tossed into the trash like a used condom. Bush sure knows the working class, doesn't he?

It doesn’t matter to the Working Class Voters® that Republicans have wrought them more poverty through policies that have moved their manufacturing jobs overseas, broken up unions, increased their cost of living by outsourcing the United States government to private contractors…oh, and sending your children, husbands, wives, brothers and sisters off to fight corporate wars. What do you think of that Working Class Voters®? I know none of that matters so as long as you’re white, you all right…right? Right on. You’ve been convinced to vote against your own interests. Keep on being white, broke and dead.

My galoshes are full of shit, because I’m wading through all the bullshit that the corporate media keeps putting out there, like Obama has a problem with the Working Class Voters® The reality: the last Democrat to win Working Class Voters® was Lynden B. Johnson in 1964, and after his administration passed Civil Rights legislation, Working Class Voters® made a mass exodus to the welcoming arms of the Republicans. This was called the Southern Strategy.

In October 2007 I said of the much coddled voting bloc and Nixon’s and the Republicans’ strategy:

The Nixon Doctrine was not adopted to address the misperceptions or heal the grievances of these so-called disenfranchised but to build a voting block of white men by pitting their interests against those of people of color and women. Although all of the disenfranchised shared more in common than not, the Southern Strategy was a euphemism for divide and conquer. This tried and true strategy works because it fractures communities by individualizing them, if people are fighting rather than discussing their shared grief, a collective revolution is less likely. Politicians and dictators the world over understand this concept.

White Presidential hopefuls Al Gore and John Kerry were unable to win over the Working Class Voters® so, prêt ell, why is it up to Obama to win over this group? This is a straw man argument used by the corporate media to make Obama a weaker candidate to build up an incredibly flawed and weak McCain.

Republicans have done something else. They have made people with college degrees the devil. Elitists® Out-of-touch® Latte Drinkers® San Francisco Liberals® have all been branded to perpetuate a class warefare.

If the Working Class Voters® were to come to consciousness, there would indeed be a revolution America hasn’t seen in decades. So, WAKE THE FUCK UP!

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