Brad takes issue with Chris Caldwell’s assertion that the republican party is not where wealth votes:
It takes a somewhat weird failure to look at the cross-tabs to arrive at the conclusion that the Democratic Party is the party of “billionaires, academics, minorities and single women” and the Republican Party is the party of “landscape gardeners, construction workers, truckers.” For one thing, landscape gardeners throughout much of the country are now overwhelmingly Hispanic, and less and less likely to vote Republican with each passing day…
via Brad DeLong.
But Brad is using a convenient play on words. High finance is in bed with the democrats, and big oil is in bed with the republicans. “Billionaires” was a bad choice of pejorative language. He should have said “high finance”.
So brad is just feeding the fires of dishonest discourse rather than correcting it.
That said Chris is still off-base. Republican party is becoming the white party. which is why there is a clock running on its future. And further, it’s why we are not going to have a peaceful resolution of our class warfare: because it’s going to become race warfare.
The libertarians have a solution but it’s too late to enact it. Bush was the last president with the opportunity. When one republican defected and ruined his chances of reform, the die was cast.
Sometime in the not too distant future it’s going to get very bad here in the states.