(11-10-2016, 08:00 AM)Odin Wrote:(11-09-2016, 09:17 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(11-09-2016, 08:11 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(11-09-2016, 07:57 PM)Danilynn Wrote: Nah that music was fitting in 2012. Today we need ragtime jazz or swing.
It depends upon your politics. Please!
Can you really excuse a crotch-grabbing rake? A businessman who stiffs subcontractors? Someone who dredges gutter racism that most of us thought outmoded?
Donald Trump is three things that history shows can destroy democracy -- a demagogue, a sociopath, and a kleptocrat. One is enough, and even Hitler was only two of the three. Trump is all three.
All in all, I now wish that Mitt Romney had won in 2012. We would thus be spared the four-year nightmare that we now face. I wish that I could emigrate today.
To the Trump voter it does not matter. Trump touted (or purported to tout) the virtues of the "real American" (meaning, anti-intellectual, Anglo-Saxon traditionalist or, those from other backgrounds who normed to that). To be clear, I have railed against intellectuals at times - read Paul Johnson's "Intellectuals" for that reference point. Nonetheless, to reject intellectualism outright is dumb, and makes us all weaker in sum total. So, I will fight for the intellectual, just like I will for the lower educated worker and anyone in between. In any case, not only did he tout the anti-intellectual "real American," he also slimed the "uppity" urbane, slightly bitchy, moderne woman of power. (Bear with me, I'm working some archetypes here). Clinton fit the bill. He also sliimed the dapper, well educated, half American half Kenyan sophisticate. "Where's the birth certificate?" Vile stereotypes resonate with the masses of angry, overworked, downscaled, especially if they hail in some fashion from the Anglo-Saxon traditionalist or Northern variant, the formerly well paid white "ethnic" (e.g. 58 Flat's "hardhats"). "Wow, a politician who talks like me and my buds getting drunk! Speaking truth to power! YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!"
Any questions?
Don't forget a lot of rhetoric on the activist Left essentially implying that it would be best if working class white people simply ceased to exist.
The Culture Wars never ended, they morphed into a more virulent and potentially violent form, the Demographic Wars. Each half of the country hates the other half for merely existing.
You need to listen better.
It's not wanting them to 'simply cease to exist;' it's wanting them to grasp reality so they can join us in actually solving the problems they have.
Blaming Black or Brown people, or women, or the government is simply stupid. Putting up walls to keep the world from creeping in is even more moronic - just ask the Soviet Union.