This is pretty common in the US unfortunately. Lots of union leadership and membership both lean hard right. Part of it is due to reactionary thinking and constant propaganda, and part is due to lots of people just being fucking stupid and illogical.
Over time the unions have been hollowed out and the Democratic party has increasing had an image problem.
These lower workers think that the Democrats are only pandering to “woke” problems which that population obviously doesn’t think affect them(and in some cases is actually detrimental).
This is not really true but it is what they think and it’s one of the reasons Trump does so well in that demographic regardless of what he does.
This is pretty common in the US unfortunately. Lots of union leadership and membership both lean hard right. Part of it is due to reactionary thinking and constant propaganda, and part is due to lots of people just being fucking stupid and illogical.
This is not how it’s always been.
Unions etc used to be reliably Democratic.
Over time the unions have been hollowed out and the Democratic party has increasing had an image problem.
These lower workers think that the Democrats are only pandering to “woke” problems which that population obviously doesn’t think affect them(and in some cases is actually detrimental).
This is not really true but it is what they think and it’s one of the reasons Trump does so well in that demographic regardless of what he does.