So here’s the Audible.com blurb for a field guide to swamp-dwelling troglodytes.<\/p>\n
A Thought-Provoking Journey
\nStrangers in Their Own Land <\/i>goes beyond the commonplace liberal idea that these are people who have been duped into voting against their own interests. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild journeys to Louisiana bayou country – a stronghold of the conservative right. Though this community’s ideas differ vastly from her own, she realizes that Americans share a few key principles – the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for our children. Hochschild draws on her expert knowledge of the sociology of emotion to help listeners understand what it feels like to live in “red” America. Along the way she finds answers to one of the crucial questions of contemporary American politics: Why do the people who would seem to benefit most from “liberal” government intervention abhor the very idea?<\/p><\/blockquote>\nWho are these people who write and who are they who read as if there existed some underclass of blighted retards which cannot figure out how to vote? The book is lauded for not treating the morons as morons, even while explaining the morons away. What does it take to understand these morons? An expert in\u00a0emotional sociology<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Well screw you. \u00a0That’s my emotional response. \u00a0From the blurb, the book still sounds as though it will pathologize and denigrate conservatism, rather than appreciating the wisdom of not empowering government to an unmanageable state.<\/p>\n
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A Thought-Provoking Journey
Strangers in Their Own Land <\/i>goes beyond the commonplace liberal idea that these are people who have been duped into voting against their own interests. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild journeys to Louisiana bayou country – a stronghold of the conservative right. Though this community’s ideas differ vastly from her own, she realizes that Americans share a few key principles – the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for our children. Hochschild draws on her expert knowledge of the sociology of emotion to help listeners understand what it feels like to live in “red” America. Along the way she finds answers to one of the crucial questions of contemporary American politics: … Continue reading