Don’t say Democrats weren’t warned

It is 2011, and the Association of State Democratic Chairs is having one of its quarterly meetings. Chuck Herz, chair of the Wyoming Democratic Party, raises his hand to be recognized and rises to speak: 

“There is one important minority that the Democratic Party is ignoring,” he says, “the white working man.” 

This statement is received with uncomfortable silence until the next speaker stands up and the subject is changed. Chuck was not a white working man, Yale educated and a former executive at the World Bank, he was a far cry from a working stiff, but he had “eyes to see” and he saw correctly.