A Local Observation
While talking to some of my co-workers I noticed something.
On military and defense matters the vast majority of them are absolute red-staters.
On cultural, family and social issues they are very strongly red-staters.
On economic issues (except for welfare) they are blue-staters. (I don't think anyone despises welfare more than the lower echelons of the working class.)
I personally am not much of a blue-state economic person, and don't know if this is local, but if a serious third party were to come along and take note of that (or a dissident faction of an established party) the big two parties might have a problem. Whether or not this is a good thing is another thing altogether. I tend to distrust mixing the government and economy as much as I distrust corporate monopolies (as the results are indistinguishable from each other.)
On military and defense matters the vast majority of them are absolute red-staters.
On cultural, family and social issues they are very strongly red-staters.
On economic issues (except for welfare) they are blue-staters. (I don't think anyone despises welfare more than the lower echelons of the working class.)
I personally am not much of a blue-state economic person, and don't know if this is local, but if a serious third party were to come along and take note of that (or a dissident faction of an established party) the big two parties might have a problem. Whether or not this is a good thing is another thing altogether. I tend to distrust mixing the government and economy as much as I distrust corporate monopolies (as the results are indistinguishable from each other.)
posted by shoprat at 9:28 AM
4 Comments:
Love the comic strip... it made me laugh out loud!!
I have voted Liberatarian in the past for local elections hoping that they could get some traction. I also voted for Perot in '92. I feel we are doomed to have the R's and D's come what may. It will have to be a lot worse before we'll get a third way. Gov't could help direct the economy of our state. It already does by making Mich. a donor state and sending our money south and west. Saying that gov't doesn't pick winners and losers is a lie.
It's the same here, Shop. Most of my neighbors are more socially and culturally conservative than me but more socialist. They are conservative Democrats who have voted Republican since Reagan. I find their blue-state government-worship depressing.
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