DKos says Hillary is winning "conservative" working class whites in "dying mill towns" [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

Anyone see the irony here? I've heard of cultural warfare from the right
driving working class voters into voting against their own interests, but
Clinton stands for cultural warfare from the left -- her economic platform
is solidly anti-working class and pro-upper middle class, structured
around "retraining" working class white voters to compete in a "global
marketplace", sacrificing the mill towns in the first place.

Is it purely her husbands hostile attitude to poor (read: black) urbanites
that working class whites appreciate, i.e. pitting the white working class
against the poor to make them feel like they are part of the "rising and
constantly striving middle class" that Clinton and other Harvard liberals
celebrate as the sole receptacle of American values? It seems to me these
so-called "Harvard liberals" have moved so far to the right that after SC,
they have adopted the Reagan formula from the 1970s in toto, right down to
dividing the working class from the poor by promoting medicine of economic
restructuring sweetened with cultural issues to promote hostility towards
"traditional liberal constituencies" (poor folks, greens and deans) and
make people feel good about themselves.