It's been interesting to watch the right coalesce around the similarities between their upper class and lower class members.
Both classes share a sense of entitlement to success. For the upper class, weaned on Nordquist and Rove's talk of a well-deserved permanent majority, any political upset can only be explained by nefarious, unseen forces. For the lower end of the spectrum, with their innate belief in the inferiority of other races, their low incomes or chronic unemployment can only be explained by positing that their jobs and good pay are being stolen by brown people.
The fact that Obama's presidency hit both of those sore spots rather hard.
On Why They Hate Barack Obama
It's been interesting to watch the right coalesce around the similarities between their upper class and lower class members.
Both classes share a sense of entitlement to success. For the upper class, weaned on Nordquist and Rove's talk of a well-deserved permanent majority, any political upset can only be explained by nefarious, unseen forces. For the lower end of the spectrum, with their innate belief in the inferiority of other races, their low incomes or chronic unemployment can only be explained by positing that their jobs and good pay are being stolen by brown people.
The fact that Obama's presidency hit both of those sore spots rather hard.