Daily News | Twitter, MSNBC pre-election meltdowns expose a huge problem for the left
: trying to explain why the fault line in American politics has become educational attainment.
The Levitz piece looks at many factors, but he hones in on modern, college-educated liberals’ seeming disdain for organizations. “Education polarization can be self-reinforcing,”. “As left-wing civic life has drifted away from mass-membership institutions and toward the ideologically self-selecting circles of academia, nonprofits, and the media, the left’s sensitivity to the imperatives of majoritarian politics has dulled.
Exactly. Today, America has a political right that seems better organized both on the ground — through community organizations, but especially church congregations — and through its top-down messaging from its rich people who seem more committed to building societal power than cashing in on IPO Day. There is absolutely nothing like this undergirding the Democratic Party. Recent analyses of the Democrats’ obstacles heading into the midterms, including the Levitz piece, have focused extensively on how becoming the party of college graduates has coincided with the working class becoming increasingly Republican., but one thing worth noting is that Democrats at the height of their mid-20th century power had a close relationship with organized labor. They have nothing comparable today.
Instead, the belief that brilliant thinking and the facts of a reality-based world could cut through a stainless-steel pipeline of disinformation has proved noble but hopelessly naïve. The Democratic Party and its supporters on the left side of the U.S. fault line would do well to study how the right spent decades laying their foundation.
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