I have heard it insisted in the monster thread of the week on Obama and Social Justice that McCain and Obama have met in the middle. I find no logic in that argument at all. Here's some text to rather split the contradiction implied in that assertion in half. It involves the often heard canard that blacks 'vote their interests'. If the difference between McCain and Obama's programs are so slight...then it must be personality. Or put another way:
Thomas Frank (who, coincidentally, has a new column out praising his hero William Ayers) famously asked what the matter is with Kansas where people vote Republican presumably against their class interests. Sure, those who are poor enough to get welfare are rational to vote Democrat, but the working class in "red states" is acting perfectly rationally along its economic interests, since the working class in America is not poor in any meaningful sense of the word; for example, their material standard of living clearly exceeds that of the middle class in almost all European countries. As for culture and values, to the extent that the working class is politically anything, it is deeply conservative and right-wing. To demonstrate this, assume a group of 100 randomly chosen working class males between ages 20-50 with no college education, and another group of 100 randomly chosen males of the same age but all with master's degrees or higher. Now tell me: which group do you think has significantly more supporters of affirmative action? Wide open borders? Gay marriage? Surrendering the War or Terror? In fact, can anybody name even one "left-liberal" idea or policy that has more support in the working class group? I can't think of any at least right now, even though logically there should be something. Can you?
Aside from this airtight and relevant logic, here of course is that brilliant prognosticator John Murtha with Nulan's point of view. Obviously that explains everything.
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