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Finally, the unions have again been victimized by their own success: the high wages that they have won have created a bourgeoisie whose members are more concerned about their taxes than about their unions' legislative goals. In California, blue-collar unionized homeowners last June voted overwhelmingly for Proposition 13, in full knowledge that the 57% cut in property taxes that it called for would wipe out the jobs of many of their brother unionists working in local governments...
While maintaining essentially liberal positions on most issues, Ackermann must serve them up in a way which is appetizing to the blue-collar, middle-income voting bloc targeted by all three candidates. Perhaps this problem undercuts the potency of Ackermann's image. And when you can't afford TV spots, daily newspaper ads or consultants, the problem becomes a major...
...Jarvis' four stops, he peered through his thick-lensed spectacles and told an audience of 60 in Wayne: "I get a phone call every 30 seconds. They want me in 30 states. But I'm here in Michigan because Michigan is the most important." The crowd of blue-collar workers and women in bouffant hairdos roared their approval...
...kind of guy." Despite Watergate, despite the universally acknowledged unlovability of Nixon, he still seems to many Americans "our kind of guy," in rudely definable contrast to "their" kind of guy. It is partly a cultural division-the difference between a sort of Nixon Class (some businessmen, blue-collar workers, large portions of Middle America) and the New Class made up of people who deal in symbols and information, not things: people from universities, Government welfare agencies, publishing houses, the communications industry, consumer groups, environmental causes. All kinds of litmus tests can be applied to identify the New Class: What...
...capital punishment? Do you drive a Volvo? (The distinction is hardly complete or infallible; plenty of businessmen and blue-collar workers detest Nixon.) Some have argued that Watergate was the effort (a successful one) by the New Class to repeal the results of the 1972 election. Well, crime is crime: Congress and the courts, not the New Class, brought Nixon down. But the argument has a metaphorical, symbolic appeal to those who feel Nixon was destroyed for who and what he was, not what...