needs some groups for them to actually affiliate with!
At 08:11 AM 2/22/2013, Wojtek S wrote:
>Shag: "e can listen to me all day long and agree with me, but he
>thinks he's supposed to be a republican because the men in his family
>are a certain way. And once in that milieu he falls for the bullshit
>hook, line, and sinker. Not entirely, of course, because he comes to
>me to get a reality check on some stuff. But the fact is, he lives in
>a certain milieu, the conservatives have a loud voice, and it
>influences him, how he thinks, and how he acts in the world."
>
>[WS:] Yup. For most people politics is the matter of in-group
>identification and out-group rejection rather than a political
>philosophy or rather political economy. Thomas Frank got it right in
>"What is the matter with Kansas"
>
>The lesson I draw from it is that the only strategy to win these folks
>for the liberal-left wing causes is to reclaim the in-group identity
>concepts, such as family, freedom, patriotism, etc. It may sound
>paradoxical, but the way to go it to convince these folks that being
>republican means being liberal and socialist (akin to the way the
>Brits redefined their nobility status rather than rejecting it
>altogether.)
>
>
>
>--
>Wojtek
>
>"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
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