>In my long-distant political heyday, a liberal in the American sense
>(not as in neoliberal) meant someone who favored a more humane class
>system, but was basically committed to the existing order, and
>therefore limited in the extent to which s/he would go in mobilizing
>the workers and the poor to fight in their own name. But it just
>doesn't seem to occur to the author, as it doesn't to, say, Tom
>Frank, either, that it may not not be just a question of lack of
>communication between liberals and workers, or explaining
>working-class reality to liberals. It may also be the case that
>their ideology, while less hostile than that of the Republican
>right, represents a class interest different from and in the end
>opposed to that of workers.
****** So why did about half of the white working class vote for W?
Doug
****** A number of people--Tom Frank, Mark Danner, Andrew Hacker--have had some very worthwhile things to say on this topic, some of which have been recently posted here. But I don't quite understand the relevance of your question to my comment, which was about liberals, not workers. Just because workers aren't guided by a rational perception of their class interests doesn't mean that the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie aren't either.
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