Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is
“Oh Trump is a conman, he’s pulling the wool over peoples eyes” Yeah to some degree, but the main core reason he was President and might well be President again is a lot of people fucking love being racist
And it fucking sucks because I’d love to believe in the idea that if everyone voted and had their say we’d have good enlightened leaders and I don’t know. I don’t know looking at the history of our country why that would necessarily be the case.
“People feel left behind!”
Yes absolutely! We should have universal income or strengthen unions or have free college or increase the minimum wage or do a bunch of domestic projects
“Actually instead of that let me show you this security camera footage of a migrant chasing a blonde woman”
I have the opposite read: Trump, Le Pen, et al. happen when times are relatively good. When people are well off. When many don’t care about a functional government because they got theirs. Sprinkle in a threat of the status quo flipping and they’ll go fash
They happen when working people are stressed due to losses to their financial stability, and perceived social instability. They're opportunists and parasites, and when empowered, act to inflame the circumstances that made them seem like an alternative in the first place.
The people who "already got theirs" are always around, and will always be only too happy to work with such opportunists so long as doing so continues to let them get even more.
But you can't put someone in office just bc the theft-class says so -- you still need the voters on the ground to do it.
The “working people” in the US consistently vote for the Dems by the largest margins. It’s the higher wage earners that tilt right. All this is confused by Donald Trump never getting within a million votes of a majority in any election…
By "working people", I mean anyone who doesn't make (or steal) enough money to not have to worry about finances.
People who, when compared to the actual poor, are impossibly rich, but who still feel stressed bc they feel the pinch despite thinking themselves above all that.
