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A fundamentally stupid article
And I do hope the Democratic leadership ignores Schaller. This is th sort of logic that gets people into Iraq -- and is refutable in a similar way.
1. White males are the single largest 'group' of voters in the US electorate- at least 30% of the voters and possible 37-38% in a large turnout.
2. Lose enough of that electorate and you are "screwed" because every other group, with the exception of white women, gets you less than 10% of the electorate.
3. As a group white women do not absolutely match the voting characteristics of their male partners -- but they do track pretty closely -- so anything that loses you a large chunk of white men will lose you only a slightly smaller chunk of white women.
4. Thus collectively white males and white females, if they voted as a block would hand the electorate to the other side.
5. Schaller wants to piss them off as a block -- whatever odd locutions he comes up to avoid saying so.
6. The idea is suicidal and stupid, and effort to appear intellectually deep by being -- well dumb. I suppose this is what I mean by hidden shallows. . .
How desperate are the Salon editors for content?