Hey GR, the GoP is validating your class divide concept

[Mick]

This article, by a Republican consultant, highlights Newsom’s cultural approach and tour across the South to cement the Great Divide in American politics: the Class Divide between college educated (rapidly moving to the Democrats) and non-college educated (just as rapidly moving to the Republicans).

Of note: 53.7% of American adults now hold college degrees.

Opinion: How can Democrats win the culture wars? Look to Newsom’s red-state tour (yahoo.com)

[Cornfed]

I got to this passage .  .  .

“Democrats believed that the vulgarization of the public square was beneath them, and that mindset was a losing tactic. The political reality is that the high-minded ideal doesn’t work if you allow your opposition to choose the battleground”

.  .  . and I did not need to read further.  Anyone who thinks this is a remotely accurate description of Democrats lives in an entirely different universe than I do.

[Mick]

I think that phraseology is just marketing. They’ll play in the dirt easily and readily, like any other politician, and they choose the battleground whenever they can. Sometimes it backfires like crazy. Sometimes, it doesn’t. Sometimes, they underestimate (or overestimate) their constituents. Sometimes they don’t.

[Cornfed]

Going back to the unprecedented bashing of Robert Bork and the “high-tech lynching” of Clarence Thomas, The Left has used inflammatory and offensive rhetoric to a far greater and more extreme extent than the Right.  I know DJT is Exhibit #1 in response to my assertion.  If that is sufficient in the eyes of everyday moderates and conservatives to somehow justify and offset the obscenities from The Left, then our nation has sunk too far to ever achieve rough balance in my remaining lifetime.  “Both sides do it”.  Sure they do.  But such a vacuous assertion is just a way to avoid examining the problem.

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