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There's a Robert Reich article from a year ago that predicted this kind of division on issues. He says that the two new sides are "populist" vs "establishment".
by rthomas6 11y ago
There's a Robert Reich article from a year ago that predicted this kind of division on issues. He says that the two new sides are "populist" vs "establishment". It looks to me like he was right.
http://robertreich.org/post/84984296635 http://robertreich.org/post/84984296635
It really explains a lot, like why a lot of people feel so differently about Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders, or Jeb Bush vs. Rand Paul. I think we could say that Sanders and Paul are members of a new invisible party of populists, while Bush and Clinton are members of a pro-establishment party.
- randomname2 11y agoOr as other people have called this: Washington DC vs Everyone else. All presidential candidates except Paul and Sanders are firmly on the "establishment" side. But I'm sure we'll also hear the other candidates give plenty of lip service to the populists this election cycle and turn around and forget about all that as soon as they're elected.
- BabLingBrooke 11y agoActually, presidential candidate (& ex-HP CEO) Carly Fiorina came out against TPP as well.
- mentat 11y agoThe establishment is also the new "families of rulers" pattern which is pretty disturbing.
- martinflack 11y agoSounds like the authoritarian/libertarian axis labels on the 2D political map concept: http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012 http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012 It's why Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich would occasionally team up on an issue - they're both in the bottom half of the graph.