You were saying 66 just the other day. Care to give an explication of how we get to 66 or 70?
Keep telling red America how backwards they are, and to go back to their trailers, and how you're elitists, and you'll keep alienating votes you desperately require.
This is a receptive audience for the ventings of Rush Limbaugh, Gordon Liddy, Ann Coulter et al.,
There has been a conscious cultivation of a ‘plen-T-plaint’ mentality among white working-class Americans against a class enemy defined by its cultural and consumption patterns—the Volvo-driving, latte-drinking, fromage-eating liberal elite—not its position and role within the economic system; Weberian status rather than class.
Excellent point New Left Marxist!
Richius, I understand your resentment of elites, but the white working class needs to jettison its hubris in order to vote in its own interest. In other words admit its abject status in the social and economic hierarchy. The right plays to the sensitive and bloated egos of this class by pretending they matter, and that their anti-intellectual prejudices and superstitions are worthy of consideration.