10
Mai
2005

Conservatism as pathology

05/09/05

The working class's refusal to synchronize its politics with its economic interests is one of the enduring puzzles of the present age. Between 1989 and 1997, middle-income families (defined in this instance as the middle 20 percent) saw their share of the nation's wealth fall from 4.8 percent to 4.4 percent. Yet Al Gore lost the white working class by a margin of 17 percentage points, and John Kerry lost it by a margin of 23 percentage points. As the GOP drifts further to the right, and becomes more starkly the party of the wealthy, it is gaining support among the working class. I have never seen a wholly satisfactory explanation for this trend ... Let's consider another possibility, then: The working class, or at least a large segment of same, suffers from a psychological disorder...

http://www.slate.com/id/2118237/

from Slate, by Timothy Noah


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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