divide and conquer . if you keep racial divides , it ' s easier to maintain class divides . people are more likely to look down on a slightly inferior in disgust than they are to look at their own situation in disgust . you ' re less likely to change the system if it ' s working for you , or at least working better for you . it ' s a big part of what the Democrats have struggled with the last 36 years . there is a silent majority of working class centrist conservative whites that you can tap into for a huge vote gain . these voters are also maleable to policy . that makes the whole push for PC topic squishier push too hard and you ' ll villify and alienate the hearts you ' re trying to change and the minds you need to win . how can you have a working class movement when the working class is separated like prison gangs ? this election cycle , the Democrats killed Bernie before he announced and proudly exclaimed that their party doesn ' t owe anything to an outsider . then hillary said she would eliminate every last coal miners job . she lost the white working class there . then in the general , they said that whites would be bigots and racists if the working class voted for trump . Whatever your feelings on the morality of it Donald Trump was able to parlay that misstep into his already bigoted stuff and droves of working class whites voted for him .