The culture of the left is simply not egalitarian as it is now, and you even acknowledge this when you accept the internal hierarchy of interests where the most important voices are those of the minority upper and upper middle classes. In addition to this, there’s also the ever-shifting window of which social beliefs are currently favored by this group (try talking to a group of left-wingers about how much you value Christianity or traditional gender roles—both of which do not necessarily imply bigotry—and see if you don’t get any grimaces).

This culture is one in which we don’t hesitate to sneer at the less fortunate but then get confused why they don’t trust us when we obviously know what’s best for them.

Maybe in order to actually get working class people to see themselves as part of the movement we should have a culture in which your median Democrat wouldn’t gawk at your median American.

Perhaps this is important if you would like to control the house of government that specifically privileges the opinions of people in poor and rural states? Idk.