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2010-10-26 Home Front: Politix

Working-class whites are angry with the Democrats for lots of reasons. Race is not one of them

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Posted by eltoroverde 2010-10-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 If such voters have now changed their minds, the reason is not that Mr Obama is blackhe was black in 2008.

They are simply going through "buyers remorse".

Posted by WolfDog 2010-10-26 11:13|| 2010-10-26 11:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Obama will still be black in 2012. And the unemployed who voted for him in 2008 will still (by and large) be unemployed.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-10-26 11:46|| 2010-10-26 11:46|| Front Page Top

#3 In two short years from 1992 to 1994, when Bill Clinton was president, white working-class support for the Republicans soared like a rocket from 47% to 61%. Nobody blamed that on skin colour.

Not so! The early nineties were when the narrative of the Angry White Male really began to take root. One of the core tenants of identity politics is to conflate class and race. And a key tactic is the ability to subtlety vacillate between the two concepts in order to advance a policy. Case in point; at that time liberals argued that the Welfare to Work proposals would disproportionately affect African Americans. However, when it was revealed that actually more Whites were on welfare assistance they quickly changed tack. With brazen demagoguery they then insinuated that welfare was Whitey's code word for wealth distribution to Blacks. What we see today is not nearly as subtle. It is shameless exploitation of the Presidents race. Not by his critics but by his supporters.

Posted by DepotGuy 2010-10-26 12:27|| 2010-10-26 12:27|| Front Page Top

#4 The race card had an expiration date on it that has long since past. It has as much mojo as calling someone Irish. Of sure, it still upsets a few who still painfully recall what a slur it once was, but nearly eveyone else under the age of 50 just views the user of the race card as old and lame.

And I take issue with the headline. It is not just the working class whites who are angry with Democrats. It is pretty much everyone - EXCEPT liberal elites (those once awkward and unpopular kids who grew up feeling more important by their group hatred of republicans) and the easily fooled - who are angry with the democrats for throwing gazillions of our hard earned dollars down the rat hole of corruption.

They keep selling the same old hair tonic that hasn't worked for 100 years now. Most everyone is wise to their tricks, but they think if they can just come up with the right ~~narrative~~ sales pitch, we'll be willing to pay for it again. Good luck with that.

Posted by Martini 2010-10-26 13:39|| 2010-10-26 13:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Americans = Amerikans

versus

* DER SPIEGEL > [France]SARKOZY'S "PERFECT STORM": FRENCH FURY GOES BEYOND PENSIONS.

IIUC ARTIC = French mainstream perceived perennial GOVT-PUBLIC CORRUPTION, + DECLINE IN FRENCH DEMOCRACY = DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, as seeming unstopped = suppor? by the SARKOZY ADMIN.

FRENCH POF SARKEY facing the beginnings of a POPULAR UPRISING???

MAHA-RUSHIE LIMBAUGHIAN "HISTOIRE'" REPEATING ITSELF, i.e. FRENCH REVOLUTION II = AMERICAN REVOLUTION II = ROBESPIERRE/JACOBINS II = RISE OF " OWG-NWO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE".

OWG MADONNA, OWG PAULA "DELILAH/BATHSHEBA" ABDUL, .........@ETAL, HORDE BOYZ + JEDI LIGHTSABER BABES???

But I digress...

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-10-26 20:19|| 2010-10-26 20:19|| Front Page Top

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