It's a rather convenient narrative for wealthy upper middle class whites to brush aside the woes of millions of poor Americans on the basis that they're too stupid to make good use of their white privilege - even worse than that, they refuse to even acknowledge they have it!
/humble shutout to Obama's clinging to guns and bibles comment
"“too small-minded to govern their own affairs,” and insisting that “order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign.”
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I'm going to force myself to keep this short, I had one of my famous multi paragraph long posts written up but scrapped it.
Basket of Deplorables, irredeemable, not America. We all remember these words. If you forgot:
Now, to skip my ranting, I want to focus on the bold. My first crack at this and I was writing about the gold standard, NAFTA, Obama favoring university to the point on not funding trade programs in schools. I have to stay focused. The point is these words, "...we have to understand and empathize with as well." This, to me, is not only a confession but a declaration of intention. Hillary Clinton knew the working class was dying in America. She knew that by the end of Obama's second term, the middle class was now only 49% of the nation. The increasing intensity of the stratification of wealth. It had been going on for decades, but I'll start in the nineties since I was only alive for that. Between Clinton with NAFTA and the WTO, Bush's financial collapse, and Obama's failure to implement any policies that would reverse the trend, it is apparent both parties are willing to accept these developments, if not directly responsible.
The statement of "understand and empathize" says it all. Those who ruled over our nation have simply accepted this result. There was no solution to resolve these concerns. No efforts to be made to reverse these outcomes. Sorry your town is an economic dead zone because vulture capitalists are given free reign, but we understand why you're upset, we empathize. That is all they can offer, because this is the result they have delivered. This was the life goal, the plan all along. The fractured middle and working class are just the broken eggs in the globalist omelet. This is why trade policy is a no go. You can't have protectionist tariffs in place, and you can't have domestic industry. They openly state that they feel working class jobs are something beneath Americans. I don't believe Americans feel this way, but it may be a degree of projection from politicians and media types.
Now, I won't speak much about tariffs. I have a degree in economics and was taught they are bad. From an economic perspective, sure. From a perspective of industrial policy and national economic robustness, there is definitely room to argue. But for me, in my life, this is the most extravagant move ever made that could promote domestic manufacturing. I can't speak much on economic nationalism, since I still haven't really come to terms with my feelings on it. I know the free trade advocates always say there is nothing wrong with trade imbalances, but my instincts tell me that isn't a sustainable economic model. On top of that, our transition from a manufacturing economy to service and tech and financial and nonsense economy hasn't been beneficial to the middle class. Maybe you can say globalization isn't the cause. Correlation doesn't equal causation. That is true. But I can definitely argue it didn't help.
Now, back to deplorables. The point is you grow to resent the people you harm. It's a enforced psychologically two fold. On one hand, one's conscious suffers if one inflicts hardship on those underserving. On the other, those enduring hardship hardly encourage compassion when calling you a cunt over all this grief. The mentality of the left is to justify this hardship. The people who lost their jobs weren't undeserving, they're uneducated bigots. You see. And like that, you can easily look at someone struggling and say, "fuck 'em." This is the impression millions of Americans have when thinking of the Left. This is also the impression they have when thinking of the right (hence why every time Trump isn't explicitly on the ballot, they lose). This resentment is felt both ways, and it leads to shutting out the opinions of others at best and the justifications of violence at worst.
I have to stop, sorry for my ranting. I haven't written a thread in years. When I worked at the college library, I could get a little more focus, now I'm too scatterbrained.
i think i understand what your saying?
demonizing and dehumanizing those you harm is a very common practice. like the solders in veitnam they dont kill a human they are killing 'gooks. most people cant harm a fellow human being.