Can people really not see this around them?
BTW I asserted before, but in the midst of a long rambling thing- smalltown country southern folk are, demographically, not the central question for future US. Suburban US people are. They happen to be the furthest from our lefts' horizon. This portends our transition from niche to extinction.
Hands up all who feel it is not a problem of the contemporary left that it is an isolated bubble apart from quote unquote quote ordinary people, in whatever their formulation. Hands up. Stand up and be counted.
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> This implies that there is some significant chasm between the "putative
> leftists" and "ordinary people". I know this is a common trope of Faux
> News (latte sipping liberal elite and all that), but I just don't see it
> where I live. I'm a leftist; I have kids, economic challenges, bills up
> the wazoo, worries about neighborhood crime, etc, etc. Sure, I disagree
> with many of my neighbors about the benefits of socialism, but I'm
> already "engaged" with them at school meetings and neighborhood meetings
> and block parties. At least in my corner of the woods (Portland OR),
> there's no dramatic segregation of the leftists from "ordinary people"
> (however you define them). In fact, I'd go as far as saying that
> leftists are ordinary people.
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