[lbo-talk] Re: dean and rebel flags

[Kelley]

At 02:23 PM 11/7/03 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>And Dean was right to talk about trying to peel them away from the Repubs 
>with, for the lack of a better phrase, social democratic policies. But to 
>do so requires talking more explicitly about class and its relation to 
>race than we usually do in American politics.
>
>Doug

but do you think he's really appealing to those folks when he says these 
things? or is he still appealing just to the folks who appreciate that 
analysis.

IME, most folks have a hard time applying a structural analysis to 
themselves, though they're happy to apply it to others. the people who have 
rebel flags on their trucks would probably tell him to shove his, as DRM 
says, "paternalistic Northern Liberalism" if they were paying attention to 
his comment. Not very many people like to be told that they pull levers in 
the voting booth (or do anything else for that matter) for reasons they 
don't get, but we edjamacated types do.

kelley