I am an old fart so I can remember the 1980 election when it was Carter versus Reagan……I also can recall some of the dirty tricks and some of the media slogans that accompanied the election……it was a vote for either a true statesman and a movie star hardliner that worked closely with HUAC to “uncover” Commies in Hollywood….
But the election was about Carter….all the events that took place under his guidance of the country…..the hostage thing was the most pronounced….but there were economics involved and of course the ever present energy crisis….back in those days the media had to explain the popularity of Reagan and his eventual win and in doing so they came up with the term “Reagan Democrats”…..
The easiest definition of a Reagan Democrat…….A media term referring to blue collar voters who are thought to vote for Democratic presidential candidates but who actually vote for Republicans due to their conservative social views.
The problem is that the media has never let the term die a natural death…..every election they attempt to resurrect the term to explain a candidates popularity…..but is the situation as simple as the MSM wants it to be?
Of course it is not as simple as the media would like it to be….and in most cases there is NO validity to the claim…….
Reagan Democrats originally described blue collar white men who left their traditional allegiance to the Democratic Party to back Reagan over Democrat Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election. The phenomenon was vastly overstated from the start, as many blue collar Democrats began voting Republican in presidential elections in 1968 when they backed Richard Nixon. These so-called Reagan Democrats supported Nixon again in 1972, and were Democrats in registration only by the time of Reagan’s 1980 election.
Source: The Myth of the Reagan Democrat – LA Progressive
Blue Dog Democrats were these same voters but since they voted for Bill Clinton a new term had to be found….it was Dems voting for Dems……and then in 2010 the Blue Dogs lost their butts in the mid-term and the media needed to find a way to explain it…..so re-enter the term “Reagan Democrats”……
The term is still in use today by the pundits in the MSM……
It is as silly now as it was in 1980……
Next time you are listening to the media analyze the vote….listen closely and you will find the “Reagan Democrats” are back……
Here’s another thought to keep in your mind……
Clinton’s the only candidate left who holds faith with the platform that’s guided the U.S. since WWII: classic liberal interventionism, more familiar as the globocop policy that fueled both Bush presidencies.
Source: Hillary Clinton Trumps the Republicans on Foreign Policy – Haaretz – Israeli News Source Haaretz.com
It seems that Clinton is the only Republican left in the election race of 2016……
There has been virtually no difference in the parties since they were called Whigs and Tories; the primary characteristic of a D.C. politician has always been their corruption by corporate influence. The process began before the ink was dry on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, as noted by Jefferson, Paine, Madison, and other founding fathers, who saw it begin in their day. By the time Lincoln was in office, the pattern had been set, and he expressed his fear that it would destroy the nation….
It has, and is. There is no difference in any of those who get elected to national office, for their only point of difference is in the labels they choose to describe themselves, all of which are lies anyway. The world in which we live is a corporate construction, and will remain so until we are all dead, in the relatively near future….
gigoid, the dubious