The following is one of the rarest of creatures: A political LJ post from Dave. (For that matter, any LJ post from Dave.) Might not happen again for a couple years
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I work with a lot of Tea Party types, and I'd say that they are well aware that they have neither access nor influence. When I point out things like the way Citizens United is essentially allowing the Koch brothers to buy the presidency, their response is pretty much to shrug and say, "both sides do it, both sides will always do it, thus it has always been, thus it always shall be."
So when I ask them why they vote Republican, they hem and haw and say, "I just think they're a better class of people." Or "classier." But there is always something with "class" in it.
Now you may say this is code for racism, and it may well be now. But at least among the folks I talk to, the hatred for Obama is nothing like the visceral LOATHING they (still) feel for Clinton. Why? "He's tacky," they say. "Low class." (And Hilary? "Vulgar." "Jumped up trailer trash.")
Sometimes I think that my fellow USians confuse their vote for whom they wish to form the government with a vote for the characters they wish to *cosplay* ...
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I work with a lot of Tea Party types, and I'd say that they are well aware that they have neither access nor influence. When I point out things like the way Citizens United is essentially allowing the Koch brothers to buy the presidency, their response is pretty much to shrug and say, "both sides do it, both sides will always do it, thus it has always been, thus it always shall be."
So when I ask them why they vote Republican, they hem and haw and say, "I just think they're a better class of people." Or "classier." But there is always something with "class" in it.
Now you may say this is code for racism, and it may well be now. But at least among the folks I talk to, the hatred for Obama is nothing like the visceral LOATHING they (still) feel for Clinton. Why? "He's tacky," they say. "Low class." (And Hilary? "Vulgar." "Jumped up trailer trash.")
Sometimes I think that my fellow USians confuse their vote for whom they wish to form the government with a vote for the characters they wish to *cosplay* ...
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