Guy wasn’t even a plumber
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Guy wasn’t even named Joe
Guy wasn’t even a guy
Guy wasn't even a the
He was the George Santos of plumbers.
They had no choice but to sell a myth: they have no truth to sell.
I remember like 3 days later it was in the news that it was all fake. Yet, here we are!
Fun Fact: the elite used the exact same strategy to drum up support for:
The US Revolution. One of the Adams brothers owned a newspaper and would pen letters pretending to be uneducated laymen and forced the editors to publish them under fake names.
Isn't this essentially what the Federalist Papers of Hamilton fame were too?
Now do Ken Bone. I dare you
Did he pick a side? I don't remember him being used by either party.
He was undecided.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The headlines marking his passing — an untimely and unfortunate death from cancer at 49 — are also a window into the past, a moment to look back at Wurzelbacher’s particular role in history, when he became the face of debates over economic policy unfolding at a pivotal crossroads in America.
With the economy in freefall, Obama had made his way to a working-class Ohio neighborhood to explain how his programs, from tax policy to health care reform, would aid working- and middle-class Americans.
The McCain campaign saw their exchange as a golden opportunity: Here was someone who appeared to be working-class guy, Joe the Plumber, who believed that the Republican plan to cut taxes and government services was exactly what blue-collar Americans needed.
In the late 1960s and 1970s, President Richard Nixon’s administration saw an opportunity to wrest White working-class voters from the Democratic Party, a belief bolstered after the hard-hat riot in 1970, where construction workers clashed with antiwar protesters in New York City.
After the Supreme Court gutted the part of the Affordable Care Act that would have required states to expand Medicaid, millions of Americans found themselves facing skyrocketing health insurance rates that the even government supplements couldn’t ease.
Class in America is material but it is also a claim to a set of values and a way of life, as well as an argument about who is an authentic member of “real America.” It is an identity deeply inflected by race and gender, and sometimes has little to do with dollar amounts.
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