Peter Brown wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 9:49 am
NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 9:37 am
Peter Brown wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 9:35 am
NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 9:25 am
Peter Brown wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 9:02 am
And others use it as a cudgel or crutch, depending on their need.
Most Americans simply lead their lives trying to make rent or pay their mortgage, relatively unaffected by the urge to display their virtuous feathers.
Please tell us why you think these people are "Libs"...
White liberals are more racist than the conservative ones, without a doubt. If you want to see who the real racists are, just check out what racist liberals are saying about Hershel Walker. It’s not complicated.
Liberals attack a kid, Bronny James, for similar impulses.
Please tell us why you think these people are "Libs"...
Here, educate yourself with a rag you fellas approve of:
https://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/ ... liberalism
I'd be amazed if you actually read this entire article and actually comprehended it.
It's definitely a provocative, and IMO, important self-critique of the excesses of much the 'elite' left, written, somewhat presciently in April 2016, prior to Trump's winning the nomination and then the election.
In a nutshell, the writer would want more Sherrod Browns and Tim Ryans and Jim Clyburns, and less Pelosi, Schumer, Hillary et al. I agree, as Republican who would find the Democrats much more appealing on the whole if that was the case.
Interestingly, he makes a couple of serious errors of fact, for instance the claim that, contrary to popular belief among the "smug" liberals, the average Democrat is less educated than the average Republican. That may have been valid in earlier eras, but is very definitely not accurate in the current era:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/20 ... filiation/
That said, race, religion, age and especially gender are far better predictors than educational attainment. So, I'd agree with the writer's conclusion that ascribing the liberals' challenge of reaching these folks is not that they are dumb, ignorant, don't know better...indeed, such "smug" assessments are a huge impediment to doing so.
That said, this article was written prior to Trump's full takeover of the GOP. The skewing by educational attainment and race became far more pronounced with Trump's direct appeal to the bigotries that could explain the resentments that indeed, as the writer pointed out, Obama had earlier described. The loss of heartland economic viability, leaving behind those working class whites, predominantly rural and less educated, in the tremendous expansion of the American economy amidst globalism. So, yes, they "cling to their guns and bibles"...
And it ignored the blatant appeal to racial and ethnic and religious bigotries that Trump tapped into and unleashed, supported by a right wing media juggernaut.
Re this writer:
In June 2016, Vox, which employed Rensin as an editor and occasional feature writer, suspended him for a series of tweets calling for anti-Trump riots, including one on June 3 that urged, "If Trump comes to your town, start a riot."[8][9][10][11]