U.S. Presidential Election 2008

[Strangelet]

Originally Posted by IsiliRunite

I'm not explaining his support by mentioning those prejudices, I am saying that a big factor in his ability to win the election depends on the outcome of white voters sub-consciously or consciously selecting one of those two prejudices more frequently than the other.

I don't really identify myself with anything Geraldine Ferraro says...

So just to recap.

You think the overpowering cultural/social dynamic in this election is whites choosing between their guilt or their prejudice.

I suggest that racism/reverse racism is an inversely proportionate value to age and education (doesn't seem that controversial, honestly) and that the older and less educated the voters were the more likely they voted for clinton (or for obama for less substantive issues like its time we put a women/black man in office). In other words, those where white guilt would be a motivation weren't voting for him anyway. THe people voting for obama are already liberal, wanting a liberal president after a conservative strangle hold, and would vote against mccain if it meant voting for mc hammer.

But then you say the only reason young/educated people are voting for obama is because they like shiny new shit, regardless of the objective value.

Moreover, you're willing to throw out all the other ramifications like 4 dollar gas or 2 dragging wars to prop up your pet theory of whites running around consumed in competing forces of guilt and racism.

But then you don't want to be likened to Geraldine Ferraro even when she's said that the only reason Obama is beating Clinton is because the undercurrent sentiments of racial reparations trump sentiments of feminism.

This is entertainment, Sean is missing out.

Listen heffe, one of these days you're going to be at a cocktail party and you're going to be on your game but something is different this time. Instead of everyone revering your opinions, every one is staring at you in awkward silence. What follows will be an epiphany. You'll have discovered you've descended into the intellectual equivalent of an informercial personality because instead of questioning the universe and your grasp of it you've spent your life compensating for all the glaring self contradictions and inconsistency with a delivery of dripping arrogance and dismissive condescension.

just like your recent posts.