# What makes bread-and-butter economic issues relatively unappealing for Democrats? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 23, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-bread-and-butter-economic-issues-relatively-unappealing-for-democrats/1017409 "2025-04-23T16:40:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 104
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-bread-and-butter-economic-issues-relatively-unappealing-for-democrats/1017409/104 "2025-04-28T17:55:19Z")
If you start with the assumption that helping the “common” man must be at odds with helping POC, etc then you’ll always arrive back at MAGA. Whenever you see "blue collar " or “common” or "real Americans " you need to preface it with White blue collar to understand who they want to fight for. An insightful conservative poster here once posted: > [@What could the Harris campaign have done differently?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-the-harris-campaign-have-done-differently/1009798/325): > > The Democrats have followed the strategy of championing oppressed minorities, focusing on ever tinier and more aberrant fringe groups, to the point of diminishing returns. First African-Americans, then women, then gays, and now various flavors of non-binaries. I’m not sure there’s anywhere left to go except for maybe incest practitioners. They see it as a zero sum game and by definition, minorities are NOT the “common man” they are of course the abberant “other” who must be controlled not helped. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-bread-and-butter-economic-issues-relatively-unappealing-for-democrats/1017409)._