Respectable white people return to the Democrats | Opinion

Alternet ^ | 11/17/2022 | John Stoehr

[millenial4freedom]

Either way, they thought the Democrats were better.

This is important to work out. Independent voters are not merely people refusing formal party alignment. They are that great globular middle of American politics – respectable white people, that is, white people who care about looking respectable to white people, who themselves care about looking respectable to other white people.

I call this class of Americans “globular,” because they can be pushed and pulled, depending on the context at election time. They are fickle. They believe they are immune to the consequences of politics. But they can be shamed, as respectability among other white people, who are the people who really matter, is a key motivator for them.

I suspect abortion is central to their concept of respectability. After all, half are women. I think the other half associates respectability with the social status of businessmen, as this is an affluent class of Americans that identifies with owners more than workers, and while inflation is good for wages, it’s bad for the bosses who pay them.

[Drew68]

Are journalists this crazy or do most of them spend their working days consuming copious amounts of whiskey?

The people consuming copious amounts of whiskey are the ones who think Dobbs didn't hurt us.