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So young Master Walker Bragman, the limousine leftist who seems to be aiming at being the HA GOODMAN of the 2018 campaign, took umbrage at a tweet from neoliberal shill Dr. Krugman:
Promise, what follows is NOT ABOUT ROSEANNE. It's about that zombie "economic anxiety" theory of the Trump vote, which keeps coming back, and bad faith argumentation:Hey, Roseanne Barr is only worth $80 million, and was being paid only 250K per episode. So her tweets were clearly driven by economic anxiety https://t.co/2SBgBJge0z— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) May 29, 2018
Trump voters aren't suffering from economic anxiety (median income $75K compared to $50K for Clinton, not to mention Roseanne). Poor people and low-wage workers are suffering from it and unfortunately fewer vote than other income groups.— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) June 1, 2018
So they have more economic anxiety than those making less? That's not what distinguishes 2016 Democrats from 2016 Republicans.— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) June 1, 2018
Only 1 in 10? I would have thought more. But it's 10 in 10 if you're $30,000 and under.— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) June 2, 2018
Walker was off stewing over that one for some time, and the convo became civil and even kind of productive for a while:
Nobody serious should take the 3rd-party voters as the key to the election, it's not like the Nader vote in Florida 2000, the numbers weren't distributed in such a way as to make them that important.— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) June 2, 2018
If I'm right, Democrats should be aiming now primarily INCLUDING WITH ECONOMIC ARGUMENTS at poor people very much including blacks and at women in general--stop worrying about white racists-as-group, they're not going to vote for us until their minds have changed on the inside.— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) June 2, 2018
No, you're right, don't mean to say that. Obviously we should propose projects that benefit economically distressed people even if they're racists. What I'm shy of is arguments for seeking racist/sexist votes by shutting down talk about minority and women's rights.— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) June 2, 2018
If you think you're living paycheck to paycheck with $100K (and I totally believe you are, we're all kind of screwed), please try to imagine living on $19K. I swear it makes you significantly more anxious.— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) June 1, 2018
You’re welcome. https://t.co/k2pF26GwZg— Jim (@jim_enloe) June 2, 2018
They're entirely different articles, from June 2017 and April 2018 respectively.— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) June 2, 2018
The April 2018 one I sent you based on a PNAS report, all the data available online https://t.co/YMW54sotvJ so I'm sure you'll check it out,— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) June 2, 2018
It's usually the wingnuts in my twitter feed that do that. I fear our friend may not be a true progressive.— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) June 2, 2018
You like the Boston Globe? https://t.co/jmhn1jIGKY— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) June 2, 2018
Walker saw his opportunity there and jumped back in:
All of them LOOKED for a link between economic distress and racial resentment and didn't find it. Instead, they found it was status anxiety and fear of being displaced, regardless of income, that accounted for support of Trump. They look at all sorts of parameters.— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) June 2, 2018
Enjoy. https://t.co/COCJzWnkme— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) June 2, 2018
Only he hadn't really looked at the link he sent me, just as he hadn't looked at the links we'd been sending him that didn't fail to consider the link between economic distress and racial resentment. Sadly, he's just a hack:
This interesting summary of what looks like a lot of evidence says that the poverty of minority groups contributes to their victimization by racists, not that the economically anxious become racists. It seems to be about a completely opposite point. pic.twitter.com/PxiURKcU0w— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) June 2, 2018
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