2y ago

Dealignment Is Real. We Can Help Reverse It.

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Upvoted for Jacobin. Is it me, or are headlines getting worse?
- Yeah, this one's utter garbage.
so.... dealignment is poor folks voting Red and non-poor folks voting Blue? or is it something else? there's a lot more poor folks than non-poor folks. I only skimmed the article, its way too long.
can we get a tldr?
- Yeah basically the traditional alignment is for people to vote farther left the poorer they are and farther right the richer they are. Dealignment is when that pattern gets a little scrambled as it has now, with the overwhelming support for the left by the highly educated and corresponding losses among the uneducated poor. As you say there are a lot of poor, so leftists are trying to come up with strategies to reverse that dealignment and win them back.
  
  The problem right now seems to be where the majority of wealth lies, and how it is being used to keep the poor right where they are.
  
  gotcha. yeah I dont see that happening - not unless leftists denounce all of their party policies and stop being leftists. centrists, maybe?

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