Stanley Aronowitz

The Mass Psychology of Liberalism

September 6, 2011 11:41am • 0 Comments

From the July 6, 2011, issue of The Indypendent:

Presidential politics is sport and spectacle alike. Unlike European countries, which devote a few months to mostly publicly financed national elections, the United States’ privatized presidential race is a brain-numbing, two-year process. Since the November 2010 midterm poll, many Republican hopefuls have tossed their hats in the ring, and the campaign is now in full swing. In re-election mode, President Obama has been racing around, assuring us that the economic recovery, although slow, is progressing despite the 25 million jobless and underemployed, and despite his steadfast refusal to craft a jobs program. We have 16 months of spin, speeches, scandals and wedge issues to go before November 2012, but the spectacle cannot hide the fact that there is little difference between the two parties.

In reality, the ideological divide between the Democrats and Republicans is between the two historic branches of liberalism.

Read the full article here.

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