Status quo-supporting people like Kevin Drum never are able to grasp the real issues. It’s what I meant in a previous post about the pundits as “aliens among us.”
Like this.
Why are American anxious? Because under both Democratic and Republican presidents, their lives have been made far more precarious, they’ve been forced to take on more risk for less reward while plutocrats receive Croesan volumes of unearned wealth — which they go on to flaunt while admonishing their inferiors for a lack of gumption and grit.
This is why the anxiety; this is why people support both Trump and Sanders. And it’s something people like Kevin Drum — with high-paying jobs and luxe health care packages — will never see in their wilful blindness.
This is why the anxiety; this is why white people support both Trump and Sanders.
FTFY. I don’t see large numbers of formerly prosperous blue collar workers who are black voting for someone who plays footsy winky with white supremacists. Trump is far too blatant to win over people who would normally compartmentalize with “He’s not talking about me specifically.”
The racism makes the white people feel better about the past which isn’t coming back, but turns everyone else off and mobilizes everyone else.
Because under both Democratic and Republican presidents, their lives have been made far more precarious, they’ve been forced to take on more risk for less reward while plutocrats receive Croesan volumes of unearned wealth — which they go on to flaunt while admonishing their inferiors for a lack of gumption and grit.
Wait, that’s basically Trump. Cognitive dissonance is a wonderful thing.