Blue Collar Cred: Al Sharpton, Joe Biden, Eric Adams and More

 The 1% aren't doing too hot.

The 8.8 Billion Dollar Man Leon Black has fallen from grace. A comeback doesn’t look promising.

Overall, that demographic has lost lots of money.

On Wall Street they are losing their jobs.

Also, as used-everything has become the fashion, their designer-everything seems, well, too stylized. 

So in is the blue-collar ethos. Or the working-class take on making ends meet.

My career coaching clients who are thriving are totally devoid of the trappings of the white-collar professional class. They talk straight. They know the boss is The Man. And they have no illusion about how little most advanced degrees can get them in pay and financial security. Their mindset is certifications. Also, there's the reasonable investment for training for blue-collar career paths such as long-distance driving. 

Think about it. Al Sharpton won our hearts during the George Floyd memorial. He focused on growing up with roaches. That is a universal.

If not in childhood, then there were the roaches when we landed our first apartment or circled back to that sort of thing during a reversal of fortune. Roaches stand for the dark branding of us strugglers. And it’s never over. We can always wind up with the roaches.

Well, here we are. Joe Biden, as a Regular Joe, is overcoming the challenges which experts projected were supposed to sink him. That positioning could get him a second term during the hard times which look like they will keep becoming harder. A riveting photo-op could be a roach running across Biden’s desk.

Also blue collar has been providing solid mooring for New York City mayor Eric Adams. As Politico hammers, he has a real shot at a national profile. Yes, he could be the next for the Democratic Party. We have had it with the cerebral like Elizabeth Warren and the extreme lefties like AOC.

 The reach of blue-collar power, though, will be determined by how effective it is at fundraising. Sure it can go to small contributors. But that won’t get it too far in these inflationary times.

The money will have to come from deep pockets like law firms. According to Blue Tent, the 5 major players in donations to the Democratic Party are: Kirkland & Ellis, Paul Weiss, Akin, Wilmer Hale, and Latham. However, with slowing demand for their services some law firms might pull back a bit or a lot on ponying up financial support for 2024.

Meanwhile blue collar could overtake pop culture. That could replace even hood cool. The working-class tone is already dominating professional anonymous networks such as Fishbowl and Blind. There are the posters and there is The Man.

The movement could be labeled Roach. The current power structure in progressiveness could be Roached Out. And you and I were at the beginning of this revolution. It won’t be streamed in white-collar rhetoric.

Full Disclosure: A greeting card corporation turned down my idea for a line of card. The meme would be: “Birthdays are like roaches, once you get one they just keep coming.”

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