I understand that many Democrat voters at this stage hate Republicans so much. After all, their fundamental human rights are being attacked. What I don’t understand though is how naïve Democrats are to not be able to diagnose the issue, what brought us here. They are supposed to be the “smart, educated” ones and they pride themselves on that in the most annoying, elitist way quite often. You can’t simply say that 50% of the country is “stupid”. If this was indeed the case, America would collapse. Something else is going on, and the Democratic party and its voters still don’t get it: when you make half of the country poor, and uneducated, you are inviting a revolution. And you are inviting extreme views and extreme movements.
Both sides are unable to understand each other, but I am more disappointed with Democrats. They are supposed to be the educated ones, the ones who understand the history of inequality in America, and that inequality eventually leads to revolt as far as global history goes. This is a revolution, whether for good or for bad. The hungry have risen up and they chose the fascists, because the Democratic Party was asleep on the wheel.
Having lived in America for more than a decade, I know that the educated and middle-upper class does not simply look down upon the rest of the country. It believes that they deserve to be where they are. In sharp contrast to Europeans, Americans believe that poor people are poor because of their own fault. This is why ordinary Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, are against universal healthcare. Why should “their tax money” go towards providing healthcare for the poor. The poor are poor because they failed to “work hard” and achieve the illusion of the American Dream. This is a country of two separate societies that refuse to integrate into each other. But it is mostly the wealthy who have slammed the door on the poor.
I don’t think that either the Republican or Democratic Party will ever get what it means to move forward as a whole society, simply because inequality in America is accepted and embedded into peoples’ perception of what a normal society should be. The wealthy expect the poor to suffer, and the poor expect to work three jobs and never get to the end of the month.
The two hateful sides of this society will only come together if America discovers socialism and moves towards a more equal society less divided by race, education level, and income. But the global capital that supports both political parties does not want that. Because inequality is what drives this sad economy in the first place.
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George Idealists always err on the side of fairness and the good in human nature. At though there was good in human nature. Well, the other side of the coin is what they never consider and that’s their shortsidedness. I want my fellow man to have the desire and consideration for me that I have for them but it’s not going to happen. No, it’s not. The time for the ideal society has come and gone and I’m afraid it’s going to stay gone because we don’t have the balls to stand and say “This is enough!” But we’ll never do that because we have too much of the individual in us and not enough of our fellow man. Sad…really sad. KG
While many of the Democrats are indeed “smart and educated”, I am afraid that they are not immune to the all too common pitfalls of human nature. We are a population normalized into narcissism. The “self esteem” generation has also come of age. Few people are capable of eschewing tribalism in lieu of real reason. We suffer from all manner of cognitive dissonance in everything from the insanity of perpetual growth, to our superiority over nature. And I would argue that left leaning people actually suffer even more from these collective insanities (and many more) that do right leaning folks.
Yesterday’s post was excellent, top -notch -today’s, not so much.
1. Too many overlarge generalizations. Majorities of Americans actually hold pretty progressive views, but the corporate anti-humanist powers that control virtually all institutions don’t care in the least how the populace lines up in their views.
2. America, in the sense of a active social welfare state made in the FDR era, has collapsed, so yes, you can say the majority of Americans are not just “stupid,” but “stoopid.” They were made that way by the corporatocracy, through starved educational systems, enforced economic inequality that you identify, support for idiotic anti-enlightenment religion, criminogenic business practices. Of course, this “stoopidity” applies to sociology and politics, and not everything. Humans can be quite intelligent and creative problem solvers in one area, like nuclear physics or car repair, and blatantly dumb and willfully ignorant in others at the same time.
3. “Democracy” is a bizarre term to use to point to solutions to our interlocking crises. In just about every area of of our lives we do not use “democracy” to achieve a desired result. When needing plumbing repair, I do not ask the man in the street to come in. When trying to determine the best course of action in my life when I was younger, I did not poll my parents and accede to their votes, but used my own self-knowledge and the examples of others. We don’t visit the city park to get medical diagnoses. And, we don’t leave hugely consequential socio-political decisions to the whims of mega-billion dollar amoral corporations to manipulate through Fox News and its Euro counterparts – well, we do, so this is what we get, and it’s not going to get better – time’s running out.
George, unlike most observers, your breath-taking insights cut to the marrow.
Wow. Just wow.
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Hi, George.
FRANKENPOLITICS
When you wrote
“No one gives a shit”
that was the Epiphany I had been looking for. So I fired my therapist because now I’m fine.
Haha! Yup, remember you are the sane one. Only the psychopaths can survive in this toxic world. You do you, and fuck them. Maintain some distance. Glad you’re enjoying the book. Give it a rating if you find a minute thanks
I don’t mean to put too fine a point on this or bore you, but when I was 6 years old and left my parent’s orbit to attend elementary school I soon sensed something, the world, was messed up. But of course I was too young to have the vocabulary to express those feelings.
When I was 10 I realized that people were idiots and nobody cared.
When I was in college I realized that everything was stupid, but I caved in and swallowed the BS to get a job and start a family.
Now that I’m 68 I understand that I had been right all along.
THANKS!!!!!!!
While I largely agree with this diagnosis on American society, I have my doubts regarding socialism. In virtually all countries we identify as socialist an elite pockets all the money while holding the masses in a state of perpetual serfdom. As a joke goes, in capitalism man exploits man, but in socialism it’s the other way around.
I believe Solzhenitsyn nailed it when he said the following: Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.