In January 1933, in the pages of a little-known sci-fi magazine, a little-known writer/artist duo named Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster published a little-read story called The Reign of the Superman.
This piece is funny in how the attempted explanation actually demonstrates the real explanation without self-awareness.
The attempted explanation is that Trump created this division... fomented the anger of the working class against the upper-class Democrats. However, the underlying tone and implication is that these Trump supporters are just dolts that have been manipulated by a master manipulator (while also being a stupid idiot like his followers... go figure).
There is the lacking self-aware REAL explanation. The working class was done having that upper class liberal Democrat jackboot on their neck, and Trump simply joined them in agreeing with their position. Hilariously the upper-class liberal Democrat hive is now fond of screaming protests of fear about a working-class jackboot on their necks. When the truth is simply that we will turn back the clock on their power and money looting enterprises.
I'm curious why you think there's a liberal "jackboot" on working peoples necks. Is it because liberals try to ensure everyone can go to a hospital without going bankrupt? Because that's the most concrete result we've seen from Democrats in the last 20 years.
But in the vibes arena, yes, Democrats have largely failed, by pushing identity politics to an insane degree.
LOL. You mean Obamacare... the Democrat incremental move toward socialized healthcare that has resulted in lost doctors, skyrocketing health insurance premiums and lower patient satisfaction?
Democrats today are the power base of the American uniparty political establishment. They are driven and controlled by the Professional Managerial Class that literally economically fucked the American working class with asinine pursuits of globalism. They have systematically gutted and hollowed out American industry by exporting American working-class opportunity to other countries like China, while flooding the US with uneducated poverty to drive down wages for the remaining jobs. The jackboot was economic, and then with Hillary claiming these people are irredeemable delorables and Biden claiming they are semi-fascists and the radical social leftists that took over control of the Democrat party apparatus implemented their racist and biased programs like DEI to punch down the working class even more... not to mention Democrat Biden COVID era and woke climate crisis cult policies that have destroyed the small business economy and resulted in massive corporate consolidation that adds more economic harm to the working class that relies on the small business economy.
Not only have the Democrats put their jackboot on the necks of the working class, but they have blocked the economic path for low-income people to rise up. This has all been good for the top 10% that make up the Democrat power base. And no amount of fake virtue signaling and clutch of luxury beliefs make up for the wholesale greed that is now the hallmark of the Democrat party.
Obamacare is actually very good insurance. My youngest daughter has used it, and it, unlike pre-ACA insurance, is actually real health insurance; pre-ACA, your individual policy got canceled if you got sick. Also, being able to keep your kid on your plan to age 26 is nice.
Its biggest problem was one that Biden temporarily fixed, and the Republicans broke again -- the inability to get insurance subsidies if you made more than 400% of Federal poverty level. At 401%, the premiums are still too expensive, but you can't get help with them.
Not sure I can argue conclusively about manufacturing; it's complicated and you're right that both Reps & Dems watched over its decline. Manufacturing employment peaked in 1979 and has been declining since then. But after China joined the WTO, it really started declining (see https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-9/forty-years-of-falling-manufacturing-employment.htm). Note US population increased during this time as well, from 225M in 1979 to 347M today, so manufacturing employment has been dropping pretty steeply throughout that time period. But note that manufacturing *output* has been increasing throughout that period.
A lot of the decline in *employment* is due to automation. Watch Koyaanisqaatsi and see what manufacturing looked like in the late 70s. No robots doing any welding, everything done by hand. And the manufactured products were crappy compared to stuff built today.
Also, I was reading about a USX steel mill in West Miflin PA that Nippon Steel may take over and update. Today, it is using technology from the early 1960s. The plant was obsoletely for 40 years, and USX never invested in it. I'm not sure whose fault that is -- management for not investing? The union for not forcing that investment? "Globalization" for allowing imports from US allies using newer technology?
I'll also point out that an economic strategy that assumes the world stays unchanged for decades after the most destructive war in history is probably doomed to failure. IOW, China was eventually going to industrialize no matter what we did.
All the danger is from the left... including the danger that they slip into a psychiatric breakdown with their fake media fear of danger from the right.
I think that there is something you are missing in this. Democrats display unveiled open contempt for the working class. Criticism of Trump coming from the mouths of people holding you in contempt falls upon deaf ears. If you want people to not give a damn about anything that you have to say, call them stupid, uneducated, privileged racists, etc. It goes beyond not caring about anything you have to say, it leads them to support people like Trump. If you say that is stupid, you prove my point.
I think that Steve is aware of it but what I think was left out is the open contempt. Of course it hurt HRC, but it seems that the Democrats not only learned nothing, they doubled down on it.
I don't think that Trump created the divide as much as he capitalized on it. He may well have made it worse with his strategy of focus on it, but sadly the idea that my enemie's enemy is my friend made his ploy work.
"They focus on their Bibles and guns" predates Trump.
Yup, Steve, that's the answer, all right. Everyone deserves to be represented by their government and it needs to meet EVERYONE's needs, not just the 0.1% of people with unnecessary wealth.
This piece is funny in how the attempted explanation actually demonstrates the real explanation without self-awareness.
The attempted explanation is that Trump created this division... fomented the anger of the working class against the upper-class Democrats. However, the underlying tone and implication is that these Trump supporters are just dolts that have been manipulated by a master manipulator (while also being a stupid idiot like his followers... go figure).
There is the lacking self-aware REAL explanation. The working class was done having that upper class liberal Democrat jackboot on their neck, and Trump simply joined them in agreeing with their position. Hilariously the upper-class liberal Democrat hive is now fond of screaming protests of fear about a working-class jackboot on their necks. When the truth is simply that we will turn back the clock on their power and money looting enterprises.
I'm curious why you think there's a liberal "jackboot" on working peoples necks. Is it because liberals try to ensure everyone can go to a hospital without going bankrupt? Because that's the most concrete result we've seen from Democrats in the last 20 years.
But in the vibes arena, yes, Democrats have largely failed, by pushing identity politics to an insane degree.
LOL. You mean Obamacare... the Democrat incremental move toward socialized healthcare that has resulted in lost doctors, skyrocketing health insurance premiums and lower patient satisfaction?
Democrats today are the power base of the American uniparty political establishment. They are driven and controlled by the Professional Managerial Class that literally economically fucked the American working class with asinine pursuits of globalism. They have systematically gutted and hollowed out American industry by exporting American working-class opportunity to other countries like China, while flooding the US with uneducated poverty to drive down wages for the remaining jobs. The jackboot was economic, and then with Hillary claiming these people are irredeemable delorables and Biden claiming they are semi-fascists and the radical social leftists that took over control of the Democrat party apparatus implemented their racist and biased programs like DEI to punch down the working class even more... not to mention Democrat Biden COVID era and woke climate crisis cult policies that have destroyed the small business economy and resulted in massive corporate consolidation that adds more economic harm to the working class that relies on the small business economy.
Not only have the Democrats put their jackboot on the necks of the working class, but they have blocked the economic path for low-income people to rise up. This has all been good for the top 10% that make up the Democrat power base. And no amount of fake virtue signaling and clutch of luxury beliefs make up for the wholesale greed that is now the hallmark of the Democrat party.
Obamacare is actually very good insurance. My youngest daughter has used it, and it, unlike pre-ACA insurance, is actually real health insurance; pre-ACA, your individual policy got canceled if you got sick. Also, being able to keep your kid on your plan to age 26 is nice.
Its biggest problem was one that Biden temporarily fixed, and the Republicans broke again -- the inability to get insurance subsidies if you made more than 400% of Federal poverty level. At 401%, the premiums are still too expensive, but you can't get help with them.
Not sure I can argue conclusively about manufacturing; it's complicated and you're right that both Reps & Dems watched over its decline. Manufacturing employment peaked in 1979 and has been declining since then. But after China joined the WTO, it really started declining (see https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-9/forty-years-of-falling-manufacturing-employment.htm). Note US population increased during this time as well, from 225M in 1979 to 347M today, so manufacturing employment has been dropping pretty steeply throughout that time period. But note that manufacturing *output* has been increasing throughout that period.
A lot of the decline in *employment* is due to automation. Watch Koyaanisqaatsi and see what manufacturing looked like in the late 70s. No robots doing any welding, everything done by hand. And the manufactured products were crappy compared to stuff built today.
Also, I was reading about a USX steel mill in West Miflin PA that Nippon Steel may take over and update. Today, it is using technology from the early 1960s. The plant was obsoletely for 40 years, and USX never invested in it. I'm not sure whose fault that is -- management for not investing? The union for not forcing that investment? "Globalization" for allowing imports from US allies using newer technology?
I'll also point out that an economic strategy that assumes the world stays unchanged for decades after the most destructive war in history is probably doomed to failure. IOW, China was eventually going to industrialize no matter what we did.
Republicans are throwing children and their parents into vans.
Whilst censoring any criticism of Israel and conflating it with Antisemitism.
That isn’t antiestablishment.
So they traded one parasite class for another even deadlier one?
All the danger is from the left... including the danger that they slip into a psychiatric breakdown with their fake media fear of danger from the right.
So the proud boys deserve a pass for breaking into the capitol?
I think that there is something you are missing in this. Democrats display unveiled open contempt for the working class. Criticism of Trump coming from the mouths of people holding you in contempt falls upon deaf ears. If you want people to not give a damn about anything that you have to say, call them stupid, uneducated, privileged racists, etc. It goes beyond not caring about anything you have to say, it leads them to support people like Trump. If you say that is stupid, you prove my point.
I think that's exactly what Steve is saying. Why do you think that HRC's 'deplorable' comment cost her so much?
I think that Steve is aware of it but what I think was left out is the open contempt. Of course it hurt HRC, but it seems that the Democrats not only learned nothing, they doubled down on it.
I don't think that Trump created the divide as much as he capitalized on it. He may well have made it worse with his strategy of focus on it, but sadly the idea that my enemie's enemy is my friend made his ploy work.
"They focus on their Bibles and guns" predates Trump.
Yup, Steve, that's the answer, all right. Everyone deserves to be represented by their government and it needs to meet EVERYONE's needs, not just the 0.1% of people with unnecessary wealth.