The article goes on to talk about how the emotional froth Democrats have whipped people in about tax cuts for the rich has now bit them given Obama has just extended them.
Yes, he makes a good point.
Throughout the 70s and 80s we were lectured about “stereotypes”, and how they have been employed to dehumanize ethnic minorities and women. A slight, but non-fatal brush with Gender Studies, informed one that the phenomenon was a deep-seated characteristic of society that was self-perpetuating until discovered and righteously attacked by Feminist “scholarship”.
So now we have these crudely constructed stereotypes employed by the Left—”the rich”, “greedy bankers”, “evil oil”, “big drug”, etc that are coined in order negatively to “brand”, opposition groups and influence voting patterns among the great unwashed. Of course, the MS media has cabbaged onto them so obligingly in their news coverage, that they became trite and overused while the actual issues still hang in the balance. It seems like that should concern Fairness Doctrine advocates (especially given the importance of textual interpretation to radical scholarship), but oh yeah, the practice negatively “brands” their opposition. Hypocracy does not apply to revolutionaries—only for the bourgeoisie (to use an old pre-feminist stereotype}