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Related: About this forumOur awful elites gutted America. Now they dare ring alarms about Trump, Sanders — and cast themselve
Our awful elites gutted America. Now they dare ring alarms about Trump, Sanders and cast themselves as saviors
Both parties ignored workers, spewed hate, enriched themselves, hollowed out democracy. Now the problem's populism?
ANIS SHIVANI
This week, on the night of the Indiana primary, I read one of the most loathsome political screeds it has been my misfortune to encounter.
It was an alarm bell raised by Andrew Sullivan, arguably the greatest hypocrite of the Bush era, on par with his partner in many crimes Christopher Hitchens (remember Islamofascism?). Sullivan proclaims that the election of Trump would be an extinction-level event. Well, perhaps it will be.
But the extinction Sullivan is most worried about is clearly that of his own breed of callous elites, who could care less about normal human beings who do not have decent jobs and who live in crappy housing and who are so desperate to find a way out of the trap that even someone like Trump starts sounding rational to them.
Now this panic alert, designed to get us in line behind Hillary, is raised by the man who ended The New Republic as we knew it (which then went on to end and then end again), promoting racist and imperialist dogma during his reign at the magazine in the 1990s, and then, with his finger in the wind (which to him and that other arch-hypocrite Hitchens meant being like George Orwell), turned into one of the biggest shills for the war on terror, the Iraq war, the whole works, all the while denouncing the fifth column within our ranks. This so-called journalist, who has no record of liberal consistency, who keeps shifting to whoever holds moral power at any given moment, is scaring us about the mortal threat that is Trump.
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/06/our_awful_elites_gutted_america_now_they_dare_ring_alarms_about_trump_sanders_and_cast_themselves_as_saviors/
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)truedelphi
(32,324 posts)That should the economy implode, he could still manage to make money on it.
Why this brag of Trump's is any bit worse than Obama going and installing economic arch criminal Tim Geithner into the top spot at the US Treasury just weeks after Geithner helped to manipulate who the Wall Street winners and losers were, and doing that with tax payer monies, is beyond any explanation I can come up with
Apparently the main difference between the heroes of the Democratic Party Elite and the Trump supporters' hero is that Trump brags about the rewards he gets for gaming the system while the rest of us suffer, while Obama remained soft spoken, deliberately non-braggy, and he also made sure to have Bruce Springsteen over to the WH so many times that we all felt he was one of us.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)A really magificent find.
I especially liked the paragraph that went:
No, the danger is the elites, who have made such a joke of the democratic process, who have so perverted and rotted it from within, that the entire edifice is crumbling (to the consternation of the elites). Both parties are in terminal decline after forty years of ignoring the travails of the average worker (the Republicans admit theyre in the intensive care unit, while the Democrats calling for Sanders to quit already have yet to come around to admitting that they might have the flu), and voters on both right and left have at lastand this is a breath of reliefstopped caring about the cultural distractions that have kept the elites in power. No, they want their jobs back, even if it means building a wall, keeping Muslims out, deporting the illegals, and starting trade wars with China and Japanbecause what else did the elites give them, theyre still opposing a living wage!
Bernin4U
(812 posts)Even if the content isn't really telling us much that we don't already know.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)between Clinton and Trump, and force us to vote for her, not counting on people taking an alternative route around their shit.