[lbo-talk] Teixeira on values

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To channel Frank, the entire point with this is that regardless of what
the politicians actually say, do, or culturally identify, your average
working class "lost Democratic voter" under discussion identifies
"liberal" as "the people who admit they're liberal", or more
importantly, "the people everyone tells me are liberals."

Add some intentional blurring between Democrat, liberal, crank
supporters, and politicians, and you're all set.  The Democrats flat-out
suck at doing this for the GOP, by contrast.

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Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Teixeira on values

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>The second phenomenon is cultural elitism of a big part of the
"Democratic
>side" - which is manifested inter alia by focus on exotic experiences
>instead of mundane "bread and butter" issues and by the "noble savage"
>paternalism toward lower social strata.  That is to say, much of the
>economic struggles of the "middle class"  to maintain their standards
of
>living became boring and "bourgeois," - the weird and the exotic, the
>stereotypic "two wiccan lesbians wanting to marry and adopt an orphaned
>dolphin"  - is now in.

Yeah, that's what Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary 
Clinton are all about.

Weren't you just railing against "abstraction" the other day? Can you 
offer some examples of prominent Dems who take these positions?

Doug
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