[lbo-talk] What class is it?

Marv Gandall marvgand2 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 5 05:33:06 PDT 2013


Doug and I were making general observations about the social composition of the tea party in response to Wojtek's question about "this large segment of the population." I would hazard a guess that most of the "Republican base voters" surveyed in the focus groups fit the profile. You can't "determine" anyone's class strictly on the basis of their opinions and prejudices, but what they say about other groups and regions and government policies offers a very good starting point.

On 2013-10-05, at 3:14 AM, Bill Bartlett wrote:


> Insufficient data, you can't determine anyone's class on the basis of their opinions. Though I notice several people have tried anyhow.
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> But just because your stupid question has provoked a few stupid answers doesn't change the fact it is a stupid question.
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> Bill Bartlett
> Bracknell tas
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> On 04/10/2013, at 11:07 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> It's worth noting these were not the words of activists dressed in colonial
>> garb on their way to a Capitol Hill protest. All these participants did was
>> get paid to attend a focus group in or around their home towns.
>>
>> For them, Greenberg notes, Washington looks nothing like the capital many
>> others see. Gridlock? There is no gridlock. Only a socialist steamroller
>> before which the Republican Party is feeble and afraid. "Evangelicals who
>> feel most threatened by trends embrace the Tea Party because they are the
>> ones who are fighting back," the report states. Republican base voters
>> "think they face a victorious Democratic Party that is intent on expanding
>> government to increase dependency and therefore electoral support."
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>> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-04/why-republicans-shut-down-the-government.html
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>> [WS:] So how would you classify this large segment of the US population:
>> Working class or bourgeoisie - certainly not the lumpenproletariat and
>> certainly not capitalists.
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>> --
>> Wojtek
>>
>> "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
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