The economy that Palin '12 depends on (Strategy requires fear/anger of white working class)

Salon ^ | November 24, 2010 | Robert Reich

[2ndDivisionVet]

Comments?

[raygunfan]

freakin moron...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The ignorant peasants are ruled by fear.

Unlike their betters in the ruling class.

[Lysandru]

Comment? O.K....

I actually think that Reich is on to something, but then he writes this crap:

All of this is spawning a new and more virulent politics of anger in the nation’s white working class, stoked by Republicans – anger against immigrants, blacks, gays, intellectuals, and international bankers (consider the latest Fox News salvos against George Soros).

(Given that unemployment among African Americans is at Depression-era levels, do they feel secure?)

The Fourth Reich stumbled over the truth, and then put back on his East Coast Elite Liberal blinders on. He plays the freaking race card. It's depressing really-- but oh so predictable.

[rockinqsranch]

SHEESH!

I was about a quarter the way through the article before it started to read as written by the turd Reich.

[Diogenesis]

Reich is a racist manipulator defending his DNC impostor.

[redpoll]

>>>All of this is spawning a new and more virulent politics of anger in the nation’s white working class, stoked by Republicans – anger against immigrants, blacks, gays, intellectuals, and international bankers (consider the latest Fox News salvos against George Soros). <<<

I really wish I could reach out and touch this guy. It’s obvious that he hasn’t spent a speck of time with the people he slanders here. I know no one - literally no one - who is angry about “immigrants, blacks [and} gays.” Not a person. The anger at intellectuals is reserved for the kind of snide academic stereotyping done by bigots like the one who wrote this opinion piece. I don’t know where he has the nerve to conflate disgust with George Soros as anger about “international bankers.”

So I have to conclude that someone willing to bullsh*t about these little details will probably be willing to do the same thing throughout.

What this little man doesn’t realize is that people like himself provoke the mood of anger in this country. How clueless.

[6SJ7]

The Republican establishment doesn’t get it. Celebrity is part of The Palin Strategy – as is avoiding the insider game. She doesn’t want to do what Huckabee, Pawlenty, Gingrich, or Romney have to do. She has an outside game. Palin’s game plan is directly related to America’ white working class, and the economy it faces...

It's funny, Reich has is partly right. He then goes off on white this and white that. It's not white working class anger, it's working class anger at elites, period.

[Ciexyz]

btt

[Big Horn]

The days of the smoke filled room is about over. Not enough smokers. Sarah will not be a divider she will unite the GOP.

[darth]

Leftists believe their own propaganda. That’s a weakness that they share with the old USSR.

Let us use their ignorance of average Americans against them.

I guarantee that there are plenty of black, Latino, and gay Americans who are depressed and angry about the economy. Idiots like Obama and Reich think they can tax and regulate the country to “sustainable growth”, i.e., economic decline.

He’s right about one thing: Sarah won’t go grovel before the RINOS and power brokers to promote her candidacy. She will not need to. She will get the votes in the Primary to win.

[bwc2221]

Stand up Mr. Reich. Oh, you are standing up. Sorry about that; a Joe Biden moment.

[Texas Eagle]

And they say drug use is a victimless crime.

[USNBandit]

If the economy doesn’t turn around by 2012 it isn’t going to be just angry white people.

[Lazlo in PA]

When ever this midget prick goes on Larry Kudlows program and gets condescending on every opposing view, one can see how devoid of logic the socialist left is. Screw you Fidget.

[RichInOC]

Well, Robert, the Obama administration could (at minimum) agree to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, and then grab back those obscene increases in spending, and maybe the economy would come roaring back, those voters would be happy, and then maybe you guys don’t have to worry about the mean wittle lady stirring up the proles.

Nah. You guys are just going to sit there and get lit up. Dumb asses.

[cicero2k]

OK Salon, turns the economy into a racial issue.

First, a good economy rewards all races.

Second, the mantra that got Bill Clinton elected was supposed to be the worst in 50 years in 1992. A big lie perpetrated by MSM. In any event, the same reason; white dissatisfaction, got a Democrat elected.

[Razz Barry]

White working class anger isn’t new, of course, nor is the Republican Party’s use of it. Apart from the South, where the anger came in response to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, the more widespread working-class anxiety began in the late 1970s when the median male wage that had been rising for three decades began to stagnate.

Maybe "white working class anger" is perpetuated by people like you, Bobby.

REICH: …”I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers…I have nothing against white male construction workers, I’m just saying there are other people who have needs as well.”

[A_Former_Democrat]

Race race race race race

That’s all these idiots can think of

[MissH]

Where was the barf alert? ;)