Poor Republicans Acting Against Their Own Interests | BBC

By Daniel Miessler on January 30th, 2010: Tagged as Politics

Right-wing politics has become a vehicle for channelling this popular anger against intellectual snobs. The result is that many of America’s poorest citizens have a deep emotional attachment to a party that serves the interests of its richest.

Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank thinks that voters have become blinded to their real interests

Thomas Frank says that whatever disadvantaged Americans think they are voting for, they get something quite different:

“You vote to strike a blow against elitism and you receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our life times, workers have been stripped of power, and CEOs are rewarded in a manner that is beyond imagining.

“It’s like a French Revolution in reverse in which the workers come pouring down the street screaming more power to the aristocracy.”

via news.bbc.co.uk

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  • cooperati

    “The result is that many of America’s poorest citizens have a deep emotional attachment to a party that serves the interests of its richest. Thomas Frank says that whatever disadvantaged Americans think they are voting for, they get something quite different: “

    Hence a President Obama.

    To think one party is in bed with the foundation of our economy and the other is immune is both extremely partisan and arrogantly irresponsible.

    Where did the White House cabinet lobbyists come from that we were promised wouldn't be allowed in? Not on a cloud of pixie dust from planet Vulcan. They came in through the front door, with an invitation.

    What you are experiencing here is a crash course re-education in the effect of trusting one party, much less Congress, the Executive or even the Judicial branches, too much, and that is that a popular backlash is very, very likely, and as we are observing, very, very effective.

    It happened in 1994. Witness history repeat itself.

    -=T=-

  • cooperati

    “The result is that many of America’s poorest citizens have a deep emotional attachment to a party that serves the interests of its richest. Thomas Frank says that whatever disadvantaged Americans think they are voting for, they get something quite different: “

    Hence a President Obama.

    To think one party is in bed with the foundation of our economy and the other is immune is both extremely partisan and arrogantly irresponsible.

    Where did the White House cabinet lobbyists come from that we were promised wouldn't be allowed in? Not on a cloud of pixie dust from planet Vulcan. They came in through the front door, with an invitation.

    What you are experiencing here is a crash course re-education in the effect of trusting one party, much less Congress, the Executive or even the Judicial branches, too much, and that is that a popular backlash is very, very likely, and as we are observing, very, very effective.

    It happened in 1994. Witness history repeat itself.

    -=T=-


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