10-31-2020, 03:49 PM
(10-31-2020, 03:33 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(10-31-2020, 03:05 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: So it was more than the racist vote versus the black vote. There are a lot of concerns around which our current polarization has developed.
True, but the elites are few and they need to address some issue focused around the common people to get power. In this case, it was the racist vote. I suspect most Republicans were not so interested in weakening the influence of the worker, in increasing elite power, but the elites and racists made an unholy alliance.
Question: who can do more good for the lily-white part of the American elite: racists who achieve little, have much potential for destructiveness and political disruption... or the well-behaved, creative, learned, successful leaders within the Model Minorities? The racists and the Model Minorities have nothing in common, and they can never be in the same political coalition.
It is one of the common observations of Marxists that racism often exists as a means of pitting segments of the working class against each other to lead to a race to the bottom in pay and working conditions that allows classic, pointless (but lucrative!) exploitation. This is one of the few obvious and sound observations of Marxist analysis of capitalism. (Yes, there always are sordid capitalists who sacrifice any moral stricture to enhance profits.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.