Class in America in Action

For John, BLUF:  There are signs that peaceful protests that turn into riots extractic a high cost from the People they are supposed to be helping.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Working-class people of color hate the riots the lefty elite keeps cheering

From The NY Post, by Professor Glenn H. Reynolds, 29 April 2021, 7:28pm.

Here is the lede plus one:

When Americans fight about race or culture, the fight is almost always really about social class.  And that shows up in today’s discussions about riots and policing.

The Daily Caller recently sent a video correspondent to Brooklyn Center, Minn., scene of many police-shooting-related riots, and to Washington, DC, home of America’s ruling class, and asked people in both places when and if rioting was justified.  The answers differed sharply.

Remember, this is The New York Post, which, during the last national election had to be clamped down by Twitter for blurting out the truth about Mr Hunter Biden's laptop computer.  Who knows what kind of wild things they might publish.

The opinion piece ends:

That’s why the cavalier attitude of so many Democrats toward riots makes sense.  Democrats are now the party of Wall Street, Silicon Valley and upscale suburbs.  The people who have to deal with consequences will have to go somewhere else politically.  And they will.

We could be seeing the continuation of a major change in who supports which political party.  Yes, the Democratic Party always had its elite components, such as Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, but the Republican Party was identified as the Party of Business.  This has been shifting for some time.  Yes, the Democrats, in the 1960s, took the Civil Rights Plank from the Republican Platform and made it their own.  In doing so they seemed to sluff off other [all] working class people.  And, now, it has become a class divide.

When Pollsters and Commentators note that college educated voters go Democrat, they are noting, but not noticing the class divide.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff