Could the GOP's general problem be that the ave. American is getting poorer?

[buritobr]

High income inequality leads to high vote on the left.

The more the income is concentrated in the hands of a few people, the more is the share of the population earning less than the average income (you know the difference between average and median). People earning less than average income benefit from redistribution from the rich to the poor. That's why they vote on the left. Rational choice.

Income inequality in the US has been growing since 1980. It achieved a very high level in 2008.

[buritobr]

It all boils down to media and colleges. For decades we placed our confidence upon colleges and education as a path for our kids. Gramsci knew it, and its no wonder why he stressed the importance of starting indoctrination not on Kindergarten, or Trade School, but precisely at those very high-brow intellectual circles.

Then we have the media, which being also heavily contaminated, does everything it can to portray the GOP as the party of the uneducated, of the stupid, of the anti-science, of the angry old white racist man.

These two things don't explain it all, however. There's a third factor. See, though not an American, I'm a GOP supporter. I agree with Reps far more than I do with Dems. If I was American, I'd be a registered Republican. And unfortunately, the GOP not only has had its reputation tarnished by the enemy. Its been tarnishing itself since the rise of the Christian Right. Goldwater warned you, and apparently, you gave the poor man little attention. Its not about being pro-life. I'm a pro-life too, even though I also happen to be an atheist. Its not about the drugs. William Buckley Jr. was a proponent of decriminalising the herb. Its not about gay marriage, which I oppose simply because I am totally against Civil Marriage at all, even though its something I'd easily compromise.

Its about how you present yourselves.

Probably he is a fan of Olavo de Carvalho, a Brazilian far-right writer who lives in Virginia and writes columns for a very small newspaper in Brazil. In his columns, he does no more than repeating conspiracy theories produced by far-right American think thanks. This one is his favorite conspiracy theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School_conspiracy_theory
He likes also the Obama citizenship conspiracy theory.
Olavo de Carvalho is considered so importante that he teaches some courses in Virginia in... Portuguese. He has only a small army of followers who suck ass in online discussion foruns.

If you want to discuss seriously about Gramsci, please, write about what you read him (if you read him) and not about what Olavo de Carvalho wrote about him.