You were saying 66 just the other day. Care to give an explication of how we get to 66 or 70?
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.
Excellent point. The GOP is playing a very good game of mind control from the ground level up to gain power. Witness the PA 13 thread with points from me and Keystone Phil. Whether it be Section 8 housing resentment, anti-abortionism, church bulletins, etc., there are many issues the Democrats have to address in a common way, but stick to our core values. The GOP sees a numbers game and seen 1960 and 1964. It was white Protestants in the North and West for the GOP
and basically eveyone else were Democrats. Enter the "Southern Strategy" of the late 1960 and the 1970s. If that wasn't enough, the GOP then proceeds on to woo Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois for Catholic voters. I hate to being up PA 13 again, but a lot of bases on the GOP's rise in these areas are touched there. A fair number of my own relatives even fell for this "Reagan Democrat" trap in the 1980s.
Funny, I've had left wng professors that were so PC I loathed taking yet had conservative ones I loved.
