Posted on 12/10/2017 1:56:13 PM PST by Hojczyk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=9JD-EGY9Y3Y
More than a month ago I was asked during homecoming weekend to speak to an alumni panel on the topic of “Trump and the White Working Class,” along with the distinguished sociologist Arlie Hochschild, author of Strangers In Their Own Land, drawn from her experience of being embedded with rural folk in Louisiana, as sociologists do. Although she’s a liberal, she acquired a fair bit of sympathy for the outlook of the folks she met, not unlike the former head of NPR, Ken Stern, who traveled in red state areas and wrote Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9JD-EGY9Y3Y&feature=youtu.be
Start at 7 minutes
Looks like the democrats might have bigger problem....
the author is a lib and flighty but she did spend five years in the south
“distinguished sociologist”
Mommy, what’s an oxymoron?
Thank you for the link. I will listen to the whole video. I am in the midst of reading Arlie Hochschild’s Strangers In Their Own Land. I am interested in learning what will be discussed here.
Is this worth reading....can a deporlabe read it??
She a least seems honest for a lib
Sound like a foreign agent who should have been executed for espionage.
Conservatives have kids and liberals dont.
I am only a quarter way through so far. She does seem to understand the people she interviews, and she fairly presents their point of view. There does seem to be a bit of bewilderment on her part as to why people don’t just vote the way she wants them to, she uses the word “paradox” to describe their political views.
I have a ways to go until I finish the book. So far, it seems to me to be worth reading.
Such love for individual liberty explains the diverse ideas and opinions among Trump voters.
By the same token, such voters, by and large would subscribe to the following statement from an Edward Stanley Robinson essay:
Freedom is the most valuable of all human possessions, next after life itself. It is more valuable, in a manner, than even 'health. No human agency can secure health; but good laws, justly administered, can and do secure freedom. Freedom, indeed, is almost the only thing that law can secure. Law II cannot secure equality, nor can it secure prosperity. In the direction of equality, all that law can do is to secure fair play, which is equality of rights but is not equality of conditions. In the direction of prosperity, all that law can do is to keep the road open. That is the Quintessence of Individualism, and it may fairly challenge comparison with that Quintessence of Socialism we have been discussing. Socialism, disguise it how we may, is the negation of Freedom. That it is so, and that it is also a scheme not capable of producing even material comfort in exchange for the abnegation of Freedom, I think the foregoing considerations amply prove." - EDWARD STANLEY ROBERTSON. Excerpt - "The Impracticability of Socialism" - Edward Stanley Robertson
An oxymoron is a regular moron, but generally only seen on infomercials.
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Waiter! Another cognac.
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