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That's an interesting article. But if I'm reading it right, it sounds like Vance's solution would be for politicos to get way more personal about the solutions to their problems than the lower class would tolerate.
For example, they can't talk about the lack of success of families being raised by single mothers because people who were raised by single mothers would feel like they were being patronized. "Hey! I was raised by a single mom and I'm doing just fine." It's too personal.
The Dems can't talk about the real things that keep poor people poor. How will you do in a job interview if you're missing teeth, if you're 200 pounds overweight, if your clothes are from Goodwill, and you haven't had a good haircut since picture day at school? How will you keep a job if you don't have reliable transportation or good child care. You can't tell poor people they need a better education. They'll take offense. You can't tell poor women that they need to use birth control.
Things that keep poor people down are often very personal, and they don't like to hear it.
So the Dems talk about health care, nutrition, free college tuition, supporting Planned Parenthood, day care, paid family leave, consumer protection -- things that would help people rise out of poverty. But it's like they have to speak in code -- telling people they what they need without being personally insulting or coming off as critical of their life choices.
The Donald will never speak to those things because he doesn't know poverty or poor people. So he does the one thing they appreciate -- he promises that he will save them, just like Jesus.
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