[lbo-talk] Re: poor, white and pisssed

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Feb 23 12:17:46 PST 2005


Doug Henwood wrote:
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> So why did about half of the white working class vote for W?
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Easy. When there is nothing compelling in either party, why not vote (if you vote at all) on whatever principle is most personally entertaining? They vote on the same grounds that I make consumption decisions -- whimsically.

And of course only a mass extra-electoral explosion can move the political parties to generate compelling issues.

Carrol


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