Neighborhoods, the smartest people who work for you in your staff, they all live in the same neighborhood. Whether theyre black or white or asian. Theres this book written, theres a test if you are part of the new elite. The new elite are corporate executives, really quality lawyers, doctors and because its now at the point where it is meritbased, whether youre part of the elite, weve kind of forgotten about ordinary americans out there. And so, its like, it drove my boys crazy. It had them take the test in the book and it said, have you ever been on a Factory Floor . Were you raised in a neighborhood where over 60 of the people Didnt Go To College . If you get a chance to go to starbucks or mcdonalds for coffee, where do you go . Do you know anybody who has whole milk if their refrigerator . Because Everybody Else has skim milk . Elitist. So part of it is that its
understandable, the good news is, its based on Merit Advancement in many cases now, but the bad news is that these folks w
I had them take the test in the book and it said, have you ever been on a Factory Floor . Were you raised in a neighborhood where over 60 of the people Didnt Go To College . If you get a chance to go to starbucks or mcdonalds for coffee, where do you go . Do you know anybody who has whole milk in their refrigerator . Because everybody else has skim milk . Elitist. So part of it is that its understandable, the good news is, its based on Merit Advancement in many cases now, but the bad news is that these folks who were the people who are not the salt of the earth, theyre the stuff that makes everything grow. And theyre capable of so much more. Thats why i think our focus on free college education, our focus on making sure that theres child care and get women back in the job market. Our fox on things that are just basically simple fairness. Minimum wage. I mean, people want to know that we really do my dad used to
have an expression, chris. He said, i dont expect the government to solve m
one person who saw this loss of the white working class voters early on was former united states senator moynihan of new york who wrote in 1968 right after bobby kennedy was killed n a word the people of south boston should be on our minds as those of roxbury or bedford stiv es ant. they ve been abandoned. four years later moynihan talked about catholic voters. he said the white working class should be a base on which to build not to abandon. even in the high office of vice president, joe biden born in scranton hasn t either. as my old boss tip o neill used to say, he hasn t forgotten where he came from. he knows and shares the sentiments of those ordinary people who feel they ve been abandoned by the democratic party they themselves built. and that s hardball for now. thanks for being with us. all in with chris hayes starts
worse for it. 40 years later moynihan wrote specifically about catholic voters. saying it should be a base which o to build be not abandon. joe biden born in scranton hasn t either. he hasn t forgotten where he came from. he shares the sentiments of the ordinary people who feel they ve been abandoned by the democratic party they themselves built. that s hardball for now. thanks for being with us. join us tomorrow at 7. okay eastern. see you then.
york who wrote in 1968 right after bobby kennedy was killed n a word the people of south boston should be on our minds as those of roxbury or bedford stiv es ant. they ve been abandoned. four years later moynihan talked about catholic voters. he said the white working class should be a base on which to build not to abandon. even in the high office of vice president, joe biden born in scranton hasn t either. as my old boss tip o neill used to say, he hasn t forgotten where he came from. he knows and shares the sentiments of those ordinary people who feel they ve been abandoned by the democratic party they themselves built. and that s hardball for now. thanks for being with us. all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on all in nobody should want to wake up on november 9th and wonder whether there was more you could have done. two weeks out, hillary rallies and trump keys off.