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| Liberalism and The Wrath of The Privileged Whites |
| 2017-12-10 |
| h/t Instapundit [FirstThings] Each of our parties is acting crazy, thanks to its own elites. The Republicans are acting crazy thanks to the narcissism and entitlement of the right-leaning business and professional classes. The Democrats are acting crazy thanks to racial politics‐specifically, the angry racial politics of upper-middle-class white liberals. One irony of recent American politics is that the exodus of wage-earning whites from the Democratic party has tended to make the rump of white Democratic voters more affluent, better educated, and more doctrinaire leftist. According to Pew, about 35 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaners are white "solid liberals." Solid liberals are left-of-center on both economic and social issues, and they are pessimistic about American society. One presumes that they are pessimistic about other people in American society. The solid liberals are also the best educated and most affluent segment of the Democratic party’s factions. The weakness of solid liberals is that they are electorally nothing, absent alliances with less affluent, less ideologically rigid, and less secular groups. This creates all kinds of complications. The largely white and affluent solid liberals are notionally egalitarian and opposed to white privilege, but they include many of the most privileged whites in America. How can they participate in a coalition that is largely poorer, less educated, and darker-skinned than they are, while maintaining their comfortable position (both economically and socially)? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 Where's the priviledge in being a white male? They are the low man on the totem pole in the left's hierarchy. They get slammed at every turn. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-12-10 15:52 |
| #6 #3 Yes, exactly. Money is dwindling away. Middle class is gone. Blue collar has been purged away. Turning to Russia and China is their only future source of revenue. Hillary showed the way. Paid their bills even. They have always infused money to destabilize our country. Secrets stolen. Riots and influence on College campus. Martin Luther King enjoyed funding as well. He was to be arrested but somebody pulled the strings to prevent his arrest. The swamp has been around a long time. Trump is correct, move some government out of DC. |
| Posted by: Dale 2017-12-10 13:22 |
| #5 Pictures of their junk in nice buildings groping pedophiles who are retarded what a honor! |
| Posted by: Gleatch Ulese7439 2017-12-10 11:40 |
| #4 exodus of wage-earning whites from the Democratic party Sudden unemployment will do that. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-12-10 11:36 |
| #3 "Better educated". Uhhhh no. "Credentialed by the academia" is not a guarantee of an education |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-12-10 08:37 |
| #2 In financial analysis, there is a predictive point in some charts called a "death cross." Should be fun to see the point where dems decide unions are "icky..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-12-10 08:30 |
| #1 "solid liberals." Ah, No. They are limousine socialists. Now do a Venn Diagram of how many are part of both the core and auxiliary apparatchik bureaucracy. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-12-10 07:35 |