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Is it so strange that voters choose culture over economics?
Democratic big thinkers constantly express their bemusement over the fact that economically pressed voters in places like Ohio vote for their (presumably illusory) cultural and moral values over their economic interests, i.e., they vote for Republicans over Democrats. But, as Richard Cohen points out, Jews, the most prosperous ethnic group in America, overwhelmingly vote Democratic despite their wealth, because they identify with the Democratic party’s cultural values. So Republican voters’ choice of cultural values over economic interests shouldn’t be so hard for Democrats to understand, should it? Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 04, 2004 12:50 PM | Send Comments
“What good is it for a man to gain the whole Things really haven’t gotten bad enough economically to induce the proletarian masses into voting their economic interests over their cultural instincts. And besides, Kerry did not have a populist message. He was widely perceived as an Ivy League elitist who claimed that he had a plan for fixing everything that needed fixing but never said how. As to Cohen’s thesis that “Jews’” cultural instincts trump their economic interests, one would have to assume that “Jews,” regardless of their religious fervor, are of one organic mind set. I don’t buy that argument. If that were the case, why would they vote for a Roman Catholic? After all, wasn’t the Church of Rome the number one persecutor of Jews (other than Nazis) throughout the centuries? Posted by: Timegrid on November 4, 2004 5:49 PM |