Working class is the key distinction here. I see this reflex a lot in my personal life, since I have family and friends on the activist fringes of so many "sides" of our kayfabe culture...but here's the jig: Twelve out of twelve months, leftist - and especially "liberal" Democrat - discourse will recycle the Lumpenproleteriat False Consciousness cop-out ... that working class white people vote Republican "against their own self-interest."
It's either true or it is not.
Either the GOP is the party of crazy, reactionary poor white people, or it's actually a sick, century-old psy-op whereby smart, cynical wealthy elites play reactionary poor white people like a motherfucking muppet, for fun and profit.
You know, like the DNC.
hmm. I wasn't aware the DNC was getting much play with "reactionary poor white people," except as a muppet to be painted with whatever bullshit "other" narrative the gop wants to roll out in any given season.
also, it ^, could be BOTH, some crazies are smart, cynical and even occasionally wealthy.
By 1964 there were 1.5 million mobile phone users in the US
If by crazies you mean wealthy GOP donors, they legitimately have no clue how much the working class, including white ones, have come to despise them. The donor class is very focused on a small subset of issues that do not effect the broader voting public. I haven't met them all, but the ones I have met are legit clueless. And the consultants they hire aren't bringing much to the table besides an inflated ego (see: Rick Wilson, Liz Mair).
tapitsbo » Mon Nov 30, 2015 9:19 am wrote:What does it mean that I find myself agreeing with much of what General Patton AND Luther Blisset are saying in a thread like this?
Basically, that the constellation of wedges and magnets -- triggers and narratives -- which has shaped US politics since the Reagan Era is now collapsing under the weight of reality. Both major parties have bled out a plurality which now respresents a majority of US citizens.
