Somebody: So, if whites are upset at Democrats for enacting neoliberal policies their way of protesting is by voting for even more ruthlessly neoliberal Republicans? Meanwhile, blacks, who by all measures have suffered more in the last generation than whites, continue to overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party.
Let's face it, if you are right, you paint a picture of the white working class as hopelessly infantile and ignorant. Why should the workers need an Obama or some other man on a white horse to raise their class consciousness anyway? At the turn of the 20th century, when both Republicans and Democrats were conservative by contemporary standards, workers somehow managed to organize unions, the Populist Party, the I.W.W., the Socialist Party, etc. Americans today have far more civil liberties than they did back then but they can't be bothered to even assemble a liberal version of the Tea Party.