Stuart Stevens, a Romney campaign advisor,
said this week that while Barack Obama may have won a majority of the popular
vote Mitt Romney received a majority of votes among those earning $50,000 or
more a year. Stevens claimed this was a
victory for Romney, as it demonstrated that the Republican Party retains the
support of the middle class.
Romney won the majority of voters making over
$50,000, but lost the popular vote, so obviously the majority of Americans make
less than $50,000. What does that tell
you? Among other things, it shows that
the American middle class of yore is shrinking in the face of a three-decade
effort of conservatives to shift a greater share of the nation’s wealth into
the hands of a few.
Another inference one can make is that a good
number of the fifty-grand-and-up club probably aren’t making too much more than
that. Ignoring the crass pronouncements
of GOP bigwigs, Republican voters just a layoff away from falling into the
bottom 47% or worse continue to quaff the Kool-Aid.
It’s a matter of time before cognitive
dissonance sets in. On the other hand,
perhaps not. Americans rarely accept realities
that do not comport with their worldview.
The conservative myth is seductive, entrancing even those who stand
little or no chance of benefitting from its promises.
Until the electorate wakes up and votes in
its true interests, we can’t expect anything besides more of the same.
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