:lol: There's no limit to the media's stupidity.
No limit to people's stupidity either.
First the oligarchs import foreigners from all over to work in their factories.
Then the oligarchs, started exporting those factories and jobs for greater profits. Too much is never enough.
Then they continued relieving themselves of responsibility for all externality, specially taxes, and such things health insurance for their workers,
retirement benefits, etc., etc. Profits über alles was new corporate imperative.
The oligarch demanded merger after merger until they became more powerful than governments set up to care for the welfare of people.
Our new nation, the Corporation of Amerika. And we let it happen.
Now the oligarchs continue teaching their former little white masters, who are now out of work, because they weren't profitable enough,
to hate the imported workers and their families - because they are here and our factories are elsewhere in the world.
Never seeming to recognize who's actually doing what, to whom.
Instead like lemmings they take the bait and run off into all sorts of empty distractions to help the time go by.
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Beltane, I just had occasion to go through that articled again
CLASSCULTURAL CRITICISM AND ANALYSISNATION HISTORY
This Political Theorist Predicted the Rise of Trumpism.
In Hell’s Angels, the gonzo journalist wrote about left-behind people motivated only by “an ethic of total retaliation." Sound familiar?
By Susan McWilliams ~ December 15, 2016 !~ The Nation.com
It inspired me to come back here and revisit your one-liner.
Someone who had anything of value to add to; or detract from; or merely underline and repeat about the article,
would do so based on the article itself. For instance, I shared specific paragraphs to outline the discussion.
Why not have the integrity to get specific, quote what you don't like and why?
That is how a constructive conversation would unfold.
Why have we all trashed all that?
Why are we all past that. Battle lines are drawn, no-one escapes the raging torrent.
Thompson would want us to see this:
These are men and women who know that, by all intellectual and economic standards, they cannot win the game.
So whether it be out of self-protection or an overcompensation for their own profound sense of shame, they lash out at politicians, judges, scientists, teachers,
Wall Street, universities, the media, legislatures—even at elections. They are not interested in contemplating serious reforms to the system;
they are either too pessimistic or too disappointed to believe that is possible. So the best they can do is adopt a position of total irreverence:
to show they hate the players and the game.
Understood in those terms, the idea that Trumpism is “populist" seems misplaced. Populism is a belief in the right of ordinary people,
rather than political insiders, to rule.
Trumpism, by contrast, operates on the presumption that ordinary people aren’t going to get any chance to rule no matter what they do,
so they might as well piss off the political insiders using the only tool left available to them: the vote. ...