Good piece and we need a lot more like this. The Reagan "revolution" succeeded in driving a wedge between working people and the really poor. It is a tough mindset to overcome; that people on food stamps and receiving any form of public assistance are simply lazy and have their hands in the pockets of hard-working folks. We need more organizing campaigns directed to this demographic -- working class white people living in small towns and rural areas. The Dem Party makes very little effort to win over this constituency. They flock to Trump because he says the system is rigged against them. He's right.

In Bernie's campaigns he also talked about the system being rigged against working people - but he placed the blame where it belongs, as Hamilton has presented in this piece. Nothing is easy, but if the Dem Party would spend more $ on organizers who understand and like spending time with working people rather than TV spots and other propaganda telling us what a danger Trump is we would have a lot more progress.