02-09-2021, 02:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-09-2021, 02:22 PM by Eric the Green.)
"The parallels between Mizrahi voters in Israel and Trump voters in the United States are impossible to miss, Professor Mizrachi said.
Both see themselves as their countries’ most patriotic citizens, and demonize the left and its allies in the news media, academia and other liberal redoubts as traitorous enemies. Both, he said, feel disdained by those elites, who dismiss their views as racist, ignorant or unwittingly self-defeating.
“You keep ridiculing us and presenting us as undemocratic and dangerous,” he said, articulating the non-liberal view. “But we are the people. Who are you?’” "
quote above is from the article about Israel quoted a page prior.
It is such an ironic, and deliberate, mis-perception on the part of the anti-liberals. They call the media, academia and Hollywood "the elite," and say they are not the people, while their own votes keep in power the real elite, the corporate and wealthy bosses, who are the only ones who really benefit from their conservative Partys' neo-liberal slogans of blaming welfare and ethnic groups and opposing taxes and regulations that help them and themselves.
It is very harmful to the intelligence of the people and the nation for so many of them to think that using your brains, learning stuff and being informed makes you a member of the elite. Wrong. ALL citizens have the ability to be informed and to think critically about what's happening in the country. If they would do that, they would be liberals again like they used to be.
Both see themselves as their countries’ most patriotic citizens, and demonize the left and its allies in the news media, academia and other liberal redoubts as traitorous enemies. Both, he said, feel disdained by those elites, who dismiss their views as racist, ignorant or unwittingly self-defeating.
“You keep ridiculing us and presenting us as undemocratic and dangerous,” he said, articulating the non-liberal view. “But we are the people. Who are you?’” "
quote above is from the article about Israel quoted a page prior.
It is such an ironic, and deliberate, mis-perception on the part of the anti-liberals. They call the media, academia and Hollywood "the elite," and say they are not the people, while their own votes keep in power the real elite, the corporate and wealthy bosses, who are the only ones who really benefit from their conservative Partys' neo-liberal slogans of blaming welfare and ethnic groups and opposing taxes and regulations that help them and themselves.
It is very harmful to the intelligence of the people and the nation for so many of them to think that using your brains, learning stuff and being informed makes you a member of the elite. Wrong. ALL citizens have the ability to be informed and to think critically about what's happening in the country. If they would do that, they would be liberals again like they used to be.