Here is why Barack Obama won. He turned some of the GOPs into middle class thinkers.

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Unlike the GOP who turn middle class thinkers into working-class thinkers with their noise machine.

Beyond Wisteria Lane
Scott Fitzgerald was wrong. It is not the rich who are different but the middle classes
The Economist
Feb 14th to 20th

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In "The Levittowners", gains claimed that America's new middle classes were thinking and acting very differently from the working-class communities in which most of them had grown up. Those traditional communities had been (to use terms popular at the time) "peer-group-directed", taking their values and their outlook from people in their immediate circle, such as family and co-workers. By contrast, Gans argued, the middle classes were "other-directed", taking their cues not only from family and friends but from managers in distant offices or from contemporaries they had heard about through other means, such as the mass media.

Peer-group people live by rigid codes set by their village or trade union. "Other directed" folk are more flexible in their thinking. Mr. Lindsey explains: "Middle-class life is built on abstract relations based on shared values...We are used to dealing with people we don't know in order to get something done and do it by abstracting away from the particular details of our background or personality." To use a famous metaphor, the mind of the peer-group-directed person is a gyroscope, pivoting on a single point; that of the other-directed person works like radar, taking in signals from near and far.

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