Dems have a coalition of pro-redistribution working class whites, immigrant and minority voters, alongside the high-education rich
GOP have a coalition of pro-authoritarian working class whites, and the low-education rich + ultra-wealthy
this has basically made politics very weird
Sharon
One deeply funny thing is that most high-income individuals in the New Economy are essentially also high-education + social liberals, which leads to this:
Sharon
well, it's more complicated: more than living standards, a lot of what drives the working class turn towards the populist right is a sense of status decline (this especially common in de-industrialized areas, so the US Midwest, East Germany) which in turns pushes them towards moral traditionalism
Sharon
man könnte den Trend zu rechtsextremistischem / fremdenfeindlichem Wahlverhalten also mildern / umkehren
durch Erhöhung des Lebensstandards / der Lebenssicherheit für die unteren Einkommensklassen
Okaay---wussten wa aber schon, ne ? und die Absurdvermögenshaufen sind heilig--- tja---dann gucknwama
big part of it is that whether you're in the UK, US, or Canada, the evolution of contemporary party systems to have a working class bloc that is more or less cross-pressured between social authoritarianism in defense of hierarchy and/or economic redistribution has basically pushed everyone populist
Sachi Wolfi Gortchi (Gortchakoff) 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇬🇧
Sharon
I have to say, as a Canadian migrant to the US, it's dispiriting to see this successful right wing cooptation of working-class voters through revanchist culture war discourse work again and again in different political cultures
