Blue state/Red State is BS

[murdoch]

I see a lot of people here use blue state/red state terminology.

I distrust the corporate media, and they push this idea, which makes me even more distrustful of it. I think it is a way of framing things which has the outcome of making us more likely to lose. If we talk about it, if we believe it's true, it just harms us. Kerry wins by less than 1% in Wisconsin, so it's a "blue state". Bush won by less than 1% in New Mexico, so it's a "red state". Discussion of a red state, blue state divide is dumb.

How come one thing never discussed is that those with incomes up to $50,000 favored Kerry? And those with incomes over that favored Bush? Those who made $200,000 or more favored Bush 53% over Kerry 35%. How come that divide is not discussed, the $50,000 divide?

How do people over $200,000 make their money anyhow? Some of them earn it I suppose, some doctors do, athletes and movie stars do.

Then we go down a notch and have professionals who are people like Bill O'Reilly and that commissar type. Even weasely supposed liberals like Paul Berman are in this mix. Below them there are managers - CEOs who have no role in a company other than to screw over its workers.

Then we have those who do no work at all, the lowest of the low. The Paris Hiltons, who may collect earnings, but who don't earn their money and who don't work for their money. Rent, interest and especially profit. They are simply parasites off the working people, aristocratic heirs as useless as if they were aristocratic heirs like Louis XVI and Nicholas II.

I look at the polls ( http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html )
and it is very clear to me that the divide is not red state and blue state, but a class divide. Between the working poor and working class on one side, and on the other the managers, the landlords, the Cato Institute think tankers and Abramoff lobbyists and spin doctors, the layoff managers, the moneylenders and most importantly the "investors" - the people who live off the work of others.

[ragin_acadian]

1. i distrust the corporate media too.

but not in this instance (and i do not recall this being a news item). i do not think that there is anything to gain from the corporate media being devisive. especially because the blue state have most of the disposable income (as the link proves) - IMO, they would prefer to turn the U.S. into a giant red state.

go check out this link: http://nuclearfree.lynx.co.nz/electionmaps.htm

and there is plenty more, just look.