Neil Howe: 'Civil War Is More Likely Than People Think'

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(01-19-2017, 12:49 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: You also need to stop kowtowing to the urban coastal elites. If the Election of 2016 was not the ultimate wake up call I don't know what is. Have you ever read "The Clustering of America?" That book is geared toward marketers but it also has great utility in politics. The problem with today's main stream Left and to an extent even disparate groups like Greens and Sanders' "Petite Socialists" is they have no real pull in places like the Rust Belt not to mention the hinterlands of the coastal urban areas. They are way too geared toward clusters like "Gold Coasts," "Money and Brains," and "Uptown Bohemians" but fail to capture many other middle income and low income clusters. In order to capture such salt of the Earth clusters who used to trend Left, the modern Left need to get out of their tony comfort zones and learn to love the everymen and everywomen in the Great Flyover.

And it's not like a lot of the "leftists" on the coasts are willing to get off their asses to vote, anyway, so it's pointless trying to pander to them. They are too unreliable.