Tue Sep 14, 2021 – 3:09 pm EDTTue Sep 14, 2021 – 3:09 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — In an interview with The Guardian recently, 27-year-old British songwriter Sam Fender noted that in recent years, the term “leftie” has become “a slur in working-class towns.” While he hates the Tories, Fender said, “The left wing have abandoned the working classes, and with a lot of the left — I don’t want to sound like Piers Morgan when I say this — I feel like there is too much nitpicking and stupid fights, especially online … A quarter of the kids in working families in my region are in poverty.”
The Left still likes to talk about the working class, mind you—but it is the elites and the progressives (I repeat myself) who get the real payoff. Union pubs are out; Pride Parades are in.
Perhaps the perfect encapsulation of this was Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wearing a white gown with the words “Tax the Rich” scrawled across the back in bloodred letters — to the Met gala, which costs over $30,000 a head to attend. These days, the wealthy are woke, Big Business is fighting the culture
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