{"id":4028,"date":"2023-09-29T08:34:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T12:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4028"},"modified":"2023-09-29T08:35:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T12:35:04","slug":"finding-common-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4028","title":{"rendered":"Finding Common Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JPA403.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JPA403.jpg\" alt=\"Finding Common Ground\" class=\"wp-image-4029\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JPA403.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JPA403-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There was an article in the Washington Post this week titled, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2023\/09\/27\/uaw-strike-bucks-county-voters\/\">Red and blue voters are backing UAW strikers in one swing county<\/a>.&#8221; I thought it was going to be about Macomb County, our famed &#8220;Reagan Democrat&#8221; bellwether community where reporters tend to go to monitor the pulse of the nation. It was actually about Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Different state, but same theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The angle of this particular &#8220;go to the diner and talk with the common folks&#8221; story was that liberal\/conservative voters seem to be in rare alignment on the UAW strikers and the working class in general. Of course this alignment doesn&#8217;t have much depth. Disagreements quickly appear when you bring up things like labor unions and electric vehicles, as demonstrated by the very different rhetoric during President Biden&#8217;s visit on to Michigan on Tuesday and former President Trump&#8217;s visit on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But do you know the one thing most Americans seem to be able to agree on that stands the test of time? It&#8217;s okay to mock super-rich corporate executives. Especially out-of-touch super-rich corporate executives who insist that they&#8217;re doing us all a favor by being super-rich. So after this sympathy for the autoworkers falls apart, at least we&#8217;ll have that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article in the Washington Post this week titled, &#8220;Red and blue voters are backing UAW strikers in one swing county.&#8221; I thought it was going to be about Macomb County, our famed &#8220;Reagan Democrat&#8221; bellwether community where reporters tend to go to monitor the pulse of the nation. It was actually about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}