10-28-2016, 11:20 AM
(10-27-2016, 01:39 PM)playwrite Wrote: I think the divide is much more cosmopolitan/vulgarian, with the vulgarian tribe divided further between the philistine with xenophobic tendencies (disguised as nationalism) and the money-grubbers. To the extent that the money-grubbers can manipulate the philistines will determine how much the combined vulgarian group can remain an active political force.
Some of the philistines sub-group will smartin up and reject the xenophobic siren calls of the money-grubbers sub-group. However, most will not change but instead fall further and further behind economically and healthwise and simply die out.
On occasion, the money-grubbers will come to fear what they have wrought with their seething philistine sheeple and back off - like the ones currently backing away from Trumpism. The money-grubbers subgroup, however, cannot be made to fully come to heel until enough of their philistine sheeple either smartin up or die off to sufficiently undermine the political power of the combined vulgarians group.
It's going to take a while, but we're on the road to it. First by winning national level elections and increasingly statewide elections that through making the SCOTUS and state judiciary increasingly progressive will undermine gerrymandering, corporate electioneering, voter suppression and other desperate rearguard effort. But just as important, these loses will help split the vulgarians into their two subgroups, despising each other as much as the cosmopolitans and thereby hasten their eventual departure as a political force.
The worst part of this is the totally vacuous nature of both sides. Yes, the cosmopolitans have the right future path, more or less, but they are not a lot less self centered and shallow than their opponents. This is least serious election in my lifetime. It's all theater.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.