The thing about Matt's categorizations is that it's just objectively, demonstrably wrong.
Like, it would be very clear if college educated people were so stridently different. But they're not. We have a ton of data on this.
I get what he's trying to say, there is a kind of distinct cultural difference between people who see the hypocrisy of liberals and/or just want to enjoy the cruelty and be "left alone" (enjoy Imperialism and private hierarchies without interference), and the self obsessed virtue politics of people who want to feel better about injustice, but don't want to fix it (or secretly think it's necessary and good).
But that dividing line doesn't fall on just one variable. Not race, not religion, not income. If you want to pick the biggest one, it's urban vs rural vs suburb, where the data does show gigantic divides. But even then, it's like 70/30 at best.
It's probably best described as people with petite bourgeois morality, vs people that have to fit into corporate culture that dominates economic centers.
In either case, what it represents is an inability for the electorate to believe in change. Despite the crises surrounding it, Neoliberalism has not loosed its grip on most people yet.
The thing about Matt's categorizations is that it's just objectively, demonstrably wrong.
Like, it would be very clear if college educated people were so stridently different. But they're not. We have a ton of data on this.
I get what he's trying to say, there is a kind of distinct cultural difference between people who see the hypocrisy of liberals and/or just want to enjoy the cruelty and be "left alone" (enjoy Imperialism and private hierarchies without interference), and the self obsessed virtue politics of people who want to feel better about injustice, but don't want to fix it (or secretly think it's necessary and good).
But that dividing line doesn't fall on just one variable. Not race, not religion, not income. If you want to pick the biggest one, it's urban vs rural vs suburb, where the data does show gigantic divides. But even then, it's like 70/30 at best.
It's probably best described as people with petite bourgeois morality, vs people that have to fit into corporate culture that dominates economic centers.
In either case, what it represents is an inability for the electorate to believe in change. Despite the crises surrounding it, Neoliberalism has not loosed its grip on most people yet.
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I wouldn't either except he had that take the other day where he was mad about fucking student debt relief.
He's taking an incoherent category and letting it actually impact his political opinions.