Re: party realignment

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:48:36 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2024/Items/Oct28-8.html

"It used to be that the rich and upper middle class voted for Republicans
and the working-class and poor voted for the Democrats."  I think this was
very, very long time ago -- in the 1960s, I think.

"Now the main division is not economic, but educational, with
college-educated voters (and some minorities) being Democrats and
noncollege voters being Republicans.  A second key factor is gender."
Yeah, I mostly agree with this.  Especially non-college-educated business
owners are drawn to the Republican party, and, yes, male-identifying
persons.

I don't think I entirely agree with this analysis, and lean more towards
what Robert Reich has been arguing: the problem has been the systematic
destruction of the middle class for many years and, since government
policies couldn't possibly be the problem, many people are looking for a
scapegoat and that's the trans-people, woke-ness, etc.  So, yeah, a Bernie
Sanders with conservative culture values in the Democratic Party could
emerge to reverse this trend, but I just don't see it happening.