Yeah it is sad to see how prevalent it is in the US for the working class to vote against their own interests. To even hate on the ones who would improve their condition.

I read a book from Economist Paul Krugman, the Consciousness of Liberal, where I think he made the point that racism was the ace up the sleeve for conservatives. They could exploit that to get the working class to vote against their interests. If one could only convince the poor whites that benefits would primarily accrue to poor black people then they would line up to vote against any kind of welfare state.

Social democracy had a better chance in the Nordics as there was no big group of people the rich could use to scare the working class into voting on them.

Interesting though how in many ways the interests of feminism and the working class in the US should in many ways be aligned. Making blue collar jobs safter and higher quality would make them more attractive to women and also better and healthier for men. But the old divide-and-conquer tactic works just as well to divide whites and blacks as it works to divide women and men.

My wife's family is from Hawaii and I know how they imported people from all over there rather than on place specifically to use divide and conquer to keep them down. Today diversity is blamed on every possible problem in the US from school results to crime rates, when in reality it is not diversity onto itself which cause problems but the fact that those in power have done their best to exploit differences between people to deliberate sow discord and distrust to keep power and influence.