Looking for a succinct primer for those politically disengaged folks who are tuning out because "both sides have gotten so mean". Obviously the contradictions are heightening but how do you ease in a materialist perspective when someone is already so exhausted by "bias"
Yeah that's not a useful divide at all and the reverse is often true depending on where you live. Where I live the wealthiest types are more likely to be democrats. The only real class distinction that denotes if one is a democrat or republican is among the bourgeoisie. Industries like oil, construction, energy, weapons, have a lot of republican business owners. Industries like international finance, advertising, media, etc have more democrats.
Working class people associate with either party in idiosyncratic ways, but largely geographically, sometimes by age, and sometimes by education level. Most people don't seem to give a shit and form affiliations based on stuff they've heard from their parents.