MH - I think that what you are talking about is really CLASS. Marxist view of class. The Ultra rich, in a democracy, profit by keeping the poor and middle class divided politically. They do that by appealing to class. Make one group feel superior to another with propaganda. Poor and middle class whites who have seen 40yrs of declining we…
MH - I think that what you are talking about is really CLASS. Marxist view of class. The Ultra rich, in a democracy, profit by keeping the poor and middle class divided politically. They do that by appealing to class. Make one group feel superior to another with propaganda. Poor and middle class whites who have seen 40yrs of declining wealth and income also see their place in society declining. The Factory worker who was making $65k a year, had a pension and a union to protect him at work now has a service job paying $15 an hour, no pension and no union to protect him. The rich don't want him to blame them for screwing him, even thought they are the ones that profited from pushing his wages down. So they fund propaganda that gets him to blame others for his declining wealth and dignity. Immigrants are taking jobs so we need to keep them out, black are committing crime so we need guns to protect ourselves and liberal law makers are giving Gay people status so we need to hate the Democrats. And the church, as it always has, pushes the message that the donor class wants them to push to their membership...
This is a story as old as time.. I have stopped getting emotional about it. Progress comes, and it always does, when we organize and focus on the real enemy. I don't blame poor and middle class white folks who have seen their incomes and dignity ripped from them for 40yrs for supporting Trump any more than i blame some kid growing up in a ghetto with one parent on welfare and no family to help raid him or her for getting into crime and getting arrested.
I live in the Bay Area. You drive North or East or South for 2hrs and you are deep in Trump country. A national Divorce, wont work. We are a society not a couple.
Identify the true enemy, the DONOR CLASS, organize and fight. That is the only way to change this. You are not going to convince some pro gun dude living in rural anywhere that there are to many guns in this country. If kids dying in schools wont convince him, you and I are not going to convince him. But give him a decent job with a real future for a life of dignity and his guns become irrelevant to him.... Unite.
MH - I think that what you are talking about is really CLASS. Marxist view of class. The Ultra rich, in a democracy, profit by keeping the poor and middle class divided politically. They do that by appealing to class. Make one group feel superior to another with propaganda. Poor and middle class whites who have seen 40yrs of declining wealth and income also see their place in society declining. The Factory worker who was making $65k a year, had a pension and a union to protect him at work now has a service job paying $15 an hour, no pension and no union to protect him. The rich don't want him to blame them for screwing him, even thought they are the ones that profited from pushing his wages down. So they fund propaganda that gets him to blame others for his declining wealth and dignity. Immigrants are taking jobs so we need to keep them out, black are committing crime so we need guns to protect ourselves and liberal law makers are giving Gay people status so we need to hate the Democrats. And the church, as it always has, pushes the message that the donor class wants them to push to their membership...
This is a story as old as time.. I have stopped getting emotional about it. Progress comes, and it always does, when we organize and focus on the real enemy. I don't blame poor and middle class white folks who have seen their incomes and dignity ripped from them for 40yrs for supporting Trump any more than i blame some kid growing up in a ghetto with one parent on welfare and no family to help raid him or her for getting into crime and getting arrested.
I live in the Bay Area. You drive North or East or South for 2hrs and you are deep in Trump country. A national Divorce, wont work. We are a society not a couple.
Identify the true enemy, the DONOR CLASS, organize and fight. That is the only way to change this. You are not going to convince some pro gun dude living in rural anywhere that there are to many guns in this country. If kids dying in schools wont convince him, you and I are not going to convince him. But give him a decent job with a real future for a life of dignity and his guns become irrelevant to him.... Unite.