Economic Interests V. Values

[David Morris]

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/09/12/democrats-need-to-make-a-moral-argument-for-their-positions/

"Working and middle class Americans are not voting based on their economic
interests—but on their values. While Republicans have dog whistled their
racism for years now, they have been more overt on their appeal to values
when it comes to their position on things like abortion and gay marriage.
They have also been pretty successful in casting Democratic efforts to
shore up the safety net as either “free stuff” doled out to “those people,”
or as nothing more than an expansion of waste, fraud and abuse in the
federal government. None of these things is based on the kind of pragmatism
embraced by Democrats on what works, they are all moral arguments that
touch on people’s values."
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