by BooMan

I no longer know what the people at Open Left
are even talking about. What's worse, I find that I don't even care.
It's a startling development, where they have developed their own
Hegelian language and deterministic dialectical materialism. In this
new 'analysis' the 'Creative Class' takes the place of the proletariat
as some kind of innately good, but confessedly elitist, conglomerate of
good government goo-goo egghead superhero professionals. A heroic 'Best
and the Brightest' that isn't really all that progressive because the only real progressive is the man in the hardhat.

Does that make sense? No? Good, just be glad you aren't a philosophy
major like me. Because reading that stuff is like a classical musician
listening to rock-stars playing out of tune.

This election has been about two things. First, the war in unpopular.
Second, identity politics, where demography is destiny. High
information voters vote for Obama, low-information voters vote for
Clinton. Education levels, race, gender, and geographical location are
all better predictors of voting behavior than 'class'. The election has
not been influenced in any meaningful way by distractions like the Rev.
Wright or the Tuzla sniper saga, and all the Lakoffian wanking in the
world won't change that.

In any case, I'm tired of reading about this primary. You can use this
as an open thread for the primary results in West Virginia and
Nebraska, and the special election in Mississippi.