Probably most of the proletariat don't, but some of the college-educated segment (a pretty large segment by now) of the proletariat do, as such research gets percolated into the mass media indirectly.
Even without reading business alarmists, though, almost all proletarians appear to radically overestimate the degree to which the Democrats are friendly to them (and they even overestimate the degree to which the US government in general is friendly to proletarians here and in the rest of the world).
> As I've pointed out many times before, by almost any measure
> (employment, wages, GDP, stock market), the economy has done better
> under Dem presidents than Rep ones since WW2. The only exception is
> that Reps are better for disinflation and the bond market.
What if we compared them since the mid-1970s? After all, 1945-1973 and 1974-Present belong to different eras of accumulation. How do Democrats and Republicans compare in the neoliberal era? -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>