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Wall Street, government employees and people who look to government to support them or give them advantages, university professors, journalists, "artists", environmentalists, social justice warriors, Silicon Valley, Hollywood and the entertainment industry, and "the establishment" of both the Republican and Democratic parties.
The interesting thing is that *groups that used to oppose each other* are now united:
For example: rebellious rock stars, university intellectuals, environmentalists, social justice warriors, and "serious artists" who consider themselves "anti-establishment", "anti-bourgeois" and "avant garde" on the one hand......and corporations, Wall Street and globalists on the other!
All of them anti-Trump!
How could this alliance take place?
Through what the Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse called "repressive desublimation" in which "anti-establishment" impulses become a marketable commodity. That's how.
Once the "rebels against the status quo" become co-opted and richly rewarded by our capitalist system, they trade in their dirty blue-jeans for tuxedos and sequined gowns. Then they look down their noses at the one group that is both not at "their level" but at the same time is stereotypically associated with "unenlightened" views and tastes and that is deemed perennially guilty of racism, sexism, homophobia, etc .
Namely, heterosexual working and middle class white males.
They voted for Trump -- that is, for themselves.
And they can never be forgiven for that!
Nobody has a Marxist past more than Vladimir Putin. Your savior.
I am sorry but can you trumpets at least cut the communist blaming diatribe out, seriously your candidate populist platform was way closer to communism than free market, asking the government to step in so companies can pay you 20/hr for labor that they can buy at 3/hr is not exactly capitalism. So at least have the decency to look in the mirror.
That's all very interesting, but what do you have to say in reply to what I said?
The article does a good job understanding a large swath of people but they get it incomplete. The GOP doesn't care about these people either. We see it in the votes they've taken in just the last few days.
I've pointed this out before. The GOP did not win in November. A big middle finger to the elites in both parties won. Jeb Bush is no different than John Kerry.
These people defined in this article also want to see that their loved ones that they decide to stay near get to see a doctor when they are sick. The GOP is going to also lose in the end by not understanding that.
Their vote for not allowing people to purchase affordable meds out of Canada was a slap in these people's face every bit as big of one as telling the guy making $9.00 an hour he is going to get hit with a $1500 fine for not being able to afford $600 a month for insurance that he can't afford to use.
Screw them all. It's not going to be long before people in larger numbers start breaking things.
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