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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_revenge_of_the_lower_classes_and_the_rise_of_american_fascism_20160302* This is an extreme take but has some truths, most of us take being educated as normal and desirable, but not everyone has that opinion
College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage neoliberal assault on the working poor. Now they are being made to pay. Their duplicityembodied in politicians such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obamasucceeded for decades. These elites, many from East Coast Ivy League schools, spoke the language of valuescivility, inclusivity, a condemnation of overt racism and bigotry, a concern for the middle classwhile thrusting a knife into the back of the underclass for their corporate masters. This game has ended.
There are tens of millions of Americans, especially lower-class whites, rightfully enraged at what has been done to them, their families and their communities. They have risen up to reject the neoliberal policies and political correctness imposed on them by college-educated elites from both political parties: Lower-class whites are embracing an American fascism.
These Americans want a kind of freedoma freedom to hate. They want the freedom to use words like nigger, kike, spic, chink, raghead and fag. They want the freedom to idealize violence and the gun culture. They want the freedom to have enemies, to physically assault Muslims, undocumented workers, African-Americans, homosexuals and anyone who dares criticize their cryptofascism. They want the freedom to celebrate historical movements and figures that the college-educated elites condemn, including the Ku Klux Klan and the Confederacy. They want the freedom to ridicule and dismiss intellectuals, ideas, science and culture. They want the freedom to silence those who have been telling them how to behave. And they want the freedom to revel in hypermasculinity, racism, sexism and white patriarchy. These are the core sentiments of fascism. These sentiments are engendered by the collapse of the liberal state.
** I don't agree with the following btw
The Democrats are playing a very dangerous game by anointing Hillary Clinton as their presidential candidate. She epitomizes the double-dealing of the college-educated elites, those who speak the feel-your-pain language of ordinary men and women, who hold up the bible of political correctness, while selling out the poor and the working class to corporate power.
The Republicans, energized by Americas reality-star version of Il Duce, Donald Trump, have been pulling in voters, especially new voters, while the Democrats are well below the voter turnouts for 2008. In the voting Tuesday, 5.6 million votes were cast for the Democrats while 8.3 million went to the Republicans. Those numbers were virtually reversed in 20088.2 million for the Democrats and about 5 million for the Republicans.
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The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism (Original Post)
flamingdem
Mar 2016
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coyote
(1,561 posts)1. i thought this part on Hillary Clinton was interesting.
"The Democrats are playing a very dangerous game by anointing Hillary Clinton as their presidential candidate. She epitomizes the double-dealing of the college-educated elites, those who speak the feel-your-pain language of ordinary men and women, who hold up the bible of political correctness, while selling out the poor and the working class to corporate power."
I cannot believe nobody responded to this OP
romanic
(2,841 posts)2. Identity poltics fueled the Trump machine.
The safe space bullshit last year on college campuses among other things gave right-wingers the opportunity to swing the pendulum to the right.
flamingdem
(39,308 posts)3. I'm not sure that was it but that really bugged me
Trump's gimmeabreak attitude is at times a correct response. He hits the nail on the head enough that even sane people respond because it's refreshing, even if boorish, grotesque, racist.