Color Politics

Blue State, Red State.

I continue to have problems with this version of geographic identity politics. To me Red will always be left. Of course Karl Marx might point out that the working class folks in red states are victims of "false consciousness." Antonio Gramsci has a gentler description: "Bourgeois Hegemony." This is less of an elitist concept than it sounds. There are many other examples of exploited folks sympathizing with their captors, rather than following their own "interests." Certainly the "Patricia Hearst" syndrome is one example. In that case, I believe, our courts even recognized the concept.

If Foxnews was following that, they'd be saying we have Marxist or Communist courts. Would that it was so!