The class divide on war with Iran

It's not what Reuters wants you to think!

Poor and uneducated voters support Trump’s war in Iran even though it’s against their economic interests, according to a new article from Reuters. Or at least that’s the standard takeaway. The article begins with two gas-station cashiers who voice their anxiety about gas prices, and then affirm their continuing support for Trump. And this, it suggests, is the story all “along Colorado’s Highway 52 — a two-lane blacktop road punctuated by grain elevators, feelots, and oil pumpjacks”.

“20-30% of the elmentary school students in Morgan County, CO read at or above grade-level proficiency,” one reader responds.

“Politics really run deeper than wallets sometimes,” says another.

The discourse is overrun with responses like this, and the subtext is hard to miss: people are still litigating the argument that working class conservatives respond to material conditions. Sometimes that subtext is explicit. “David Sorota is wrong when he claims economics issues will unite the right and left. BS!”