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Re: 2012 Elections: Corndogs for everyone!
Interesting.
This helps explain why the "poor people are just lazy" meme works so well among talk radio listeners who actually are fairly poor and fairly lazy. Disorganized thinkers "think" by repeating anecdote rather than positing any kind of statistical analysis. That in itself is neither liberal or conservative. But talk radio listeners who have that comforting meme to defend always have a particular guy in mind who really does deserve to be below them, and by God they'll oppose anything that might protect that guy from the just consequences of his slothful ways. The thing that surprised me when I started working among Palin's "real Amurkuns" is that the guy they have in mind isn't some faraway urban black or Mexican sleeping under a tree. It's their deadbeat cousin who's passed out on the couch all day.
Opposition to the social safety net among lower class whites isn't primarily racist -- it's personal. There's always a lazier fish.
Interesting.
This helps explain why the "poor people are just lazy" meme works so well among talk radio listeners who actually are fairly poor and fairly lazy. Disorganized thinkers "think" by repeating anecdote rather than positing any kind of statistical analysis. That in itself is neither liberal or conservative. But talk radio listeners who have that comforting meme to defend always have a particular guy in mind who really does deserve to be below them, and by God they'll oppose anything that might protect that guy from the just consequences of his slothful ways. The thing that surprised me when I started working among Palin's "real Amurkuns" is that the guy they have in mind isn't some faraway urban black or Mexican sleeping under a tree. It's their deadbeat cousin who's passed out on the couch all day.
Opposition to the social safety net among lower class whites isn't primarily racist -- it's personal. There's always a lazier fish.
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