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YoungDemCA

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7. "People generally don't think at all about policy when deciding whether to be a democrat." Nailed it

Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Reply #6)

Tue Nov 20, 2012, 10:32 PM

Nov 2012

That goes for Republicans, too, and this is especially true of working-class and poor people of both parties.

Most (especially working-class) people vote based on a kind of cultural in-group morality, not on personal morality and certainly not on economic "self-interest." There are big racial issues here, too, that need to be addressed and wrestled with....

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Why working class people vote for conservatives. [View all] lumberjack_jeff Oct 2012 OP

This is not new information Major Nikon Oct 2012 #1

If you do happen to find that white paper, I'd love to see it. lumberjack_jeff Oct 2012 #2

I found it Major Nikon Oct 2012 #3

Thank you, I'll read it in the morning. n/t lumberjack_jeff Oct 2012 #4

Here's why I think Republicans are fucking stupid. Major Nikon Oct 2012 #5

I think it's more a mixed up sense of right and wrong. lumberjack_jeff Oct 2012 #6

"People generally don't think at all about policy when deciding whether to be a democrat." Nailed it YoungDemCA Nov 2012 #7