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What are you basing that claim on? >Meanwhile, the working class remain staunchly conservative. This flies in the face of the facts surrounding who voted for
by tomlock 10y ago
What are you basing that claim on?
>Meanwhile, the working class remain staunchly conservative.
This flies in the face of the facts surrounding who voted for who in the last election - if you consider Democrats to be liberal. What different priorities do you feel the generally worse-off working class minorities in America have?
- dragonwriter 10y ago> if you consider Democrats to be liberal. The long- (since at least Clinton's "Third Way" politics in the early 1990s) dominant faction (and the one whose standard-bearer won the nominating contest) of the Democratic Party is center-right. While that's less right-wing than the Republican Party, the Republican nominee was a political outsider that deliberately—alongside some fairly explicit endorsements of some far-right and extreme nationalist positions, to be sure—largely adopted vague language filled with direct appeals to liberal values and interest groups, and specifically targeted those dissillusioned by the progressive defeat by the center-right faction of the Democratic Party. (This kind of ambiguity and rhetorical gesture to the left has substantial precedent from the authoritarian right.)
- tomlock 10y agoI also wouldn't broadly say that Democrats are liberal. I think most political dichotomies contain broad churches. As a result I also think claims that x political view is derived from y quality of those people are simple and clumsy ways of attempting to understand the world.