I love how she understands!!!

[Razard86]

I said this awhile back...Trump is a rebellion vote. Because of the emergence of Progressive Outlets that educated the working class on how much Establishment interests rule the Democratic Party, this caused a rebellion as they became more informed. The Democratic Party main issue is they have a listening problem. Progressive Outlets have been telling them for years that true Populism is what they needed. But because the Democratic Party has been exposed by their own base and refuse to admit it and change, their own base says I will vote against my own interests than have someone claim to have my back while they stab me in the back.

Trump is openly, authentically not liberal, and liberals would rather have an Authentic Non Liberal, than a Fake Liberal. Just goes to show you, America is tired of double speak, and establishment politics, the funny thing is....they will still get it with Trump.

That's what they get for sabotaging Bernie Sanders!!!! LOL.

Democrats the message is clear, your base does not believe you Authentically Care about them.

Edited Wednesday at 05:08 PM by Razard86

[zazen]

Many of the core progressive concerns are populist at heart. The establishment obscures these shared concerns through partisan framing so that people are busy fighting along tribal lines horizontally, rather than transcendent lines vertically - against the vested interests who benefit from that distraction which perpetuates the status quo. A lot of the time, the concerns are shared but people are divided about the solutions ie print more money to fund welfare vs de-regulate to boost wealth creation or boost immigration vs increase the fertility rate. 

Most people regardless of political affiliation want the same things: affordable healthcare, housing and education, safer streets and a stop to wars. These aren’t radical ideas to be boxed into left or right - but basic human needs. They’re popular and populist as they reflect the shared desires of many people. Populism has been tainted with a dark tone because at its worst it can lead to dark outcomes and at its best it challenges elite interests - but that doesn't mean its inherently bad. It's simply whats popular, and whats popular is democratic. It's funny how its democracy when the vote is in favour of the establishment but populism when it isn't.

People have more in common than they think, but get lost in a culture war that the vested interests benefit from as it keeps people fighting at the margins on peripheral but valid issues rather than addressing the core issues which challenges the core power structures of our societies. Both the left and right are being played in this regard. To make things simple and generalise - I view the left as a pacifier and the right as amplifier.

The Democrats soak up revolutionary rage, take all that energy for systemic change against inequality, war, and corporate domination - and funnel it into performative activism, identity politics and corporate approved “wokeism” that makes people feel like progress is happening when it barely is. It’s pacification by distraction. The rage is neutralized, absorbed into a cul-de-sac of safe, symbolic gestures. Let the people rage about pronouns and micro-agressions whilst the system inflicts macro-agressions that erode the quality of life for everybody and literally un-alive people across the world through wars and destabilisation. 

The Republicans on the other hand, amplify anger. They feed on the grievances of the disaffected and feed them red meat when they direct this rage at immigrants via ethnocentrism. This doesn’t pacify, it inflames. But it’s still a deflection as it keeps the rage unfocused and away from the multifaceted causes - it’s channeled into culture wars which have some validity but shouldn’t be a priority. The right at least do a better job of acknowledging a lot more of the basics - the need for safety, secure borders, being critical of a de-growth mentality to save gaia at the expense of their livelihoods, the imposition of woke values top down from institutions which is a ideology that denies reality and flirts with cultural authoritarianism.

The left are blind to their abuse of power because power blinds those who have it. The right are blind to the problems within their solutions. The libertarian ethos (minimal government) among the right blinds them to the fact that de-regulation can lead to corporate and oligarchic domination. They conflate the idea that less state power means greater freedoms and wealth creation for all - when it can far too easily mean wealth consolidation for the few. In the end, Trump's populist appeal is more built around naming problems, rather than solving them, or only solving problems in a way that causes more on the back end.

Edited Wednesday at 07:10 PM by zazen

[Schizophonia]

It's energetical balance.

[Leo Gura]

It's so stupid it's stunning.

[AtmanIsBrahman]

@Leo Gura Although it's stupid, couldn't this be part of a movement of American politics to the left long term? It's like how the movement through the spiral stages has many hiccups and tends to be non-linear. People get sick of the establishment, they vote for Trump, then they get sick of him, and eventually the country moves up the spiral. So Trump is in a certain sense the medicine the country needs, right? You said this in an old blog video if I remember correctly.

[Yimpa]

1 hour ago, Razard86 said:

Democrats the message is clear, your base does not believe you Authentically Care about them.

Hell yeah… Can someone fix the damn AC already?!

 

[Leo Gura]

13 minutes ago, AtmanIsBrahman said:

So Trump is in a certain sense the medicine the country needs, right?

It's like saying, Crashing my car into the tree is just what my life needs right now.

Edited Wednesday at 06:45 PM by Leo Gura

[Raze]

21 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

It's so stupid it's stunning.

It’s happening all over the world, neoliberalism is failing and either moving in a populist right or left direction. 

Edited Wednesday at 06:46 PM by Raze

[Leo Gura]

Neoliberalism is the only game in town.

Stupid people think something else is happening when it isn't.

Edited Wednesday at 06:52 PM by Leo Gura

[Oeaohoo]

14 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

It's like saying, Crashing my car into the tree is just what my life needs right now.

Sounds about right to me! 

In all seriousness, maybe that is what America needs…

Edited Wednesday at 06:59 PM by Oeaohoo

[nerdspeak]

44 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Neoliberalism is the only game in town.

Stupid people think something else is happening when it isn't.

It's flaws are increasingly obvious, so it's becoming more authoritarian. 

[WritingHands]

56 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

It's like saying, Crashing my car into the tree is just what my life needs right now.

Sounds good

Edited Wednesday at 07:41 PM by WritingHands

[Schizophonia]

58 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

It's like saying, Crashing my car into the tree is just what my life needs right now.

It's more like crashing my car into the tree because i didn't repair the brakes.

But to a certain level yes Trump election is simply the solution to an energetic equation. 

Edited Wednesday at 07:42 PM by Schizophonia

[Leo Gura]

7 minutes ago, nerdspeak said:

It's flaws are increasingly obvious

Actually they are not. Since people keep voting for neoliberalism on steroids.

People do not have the intelligence nor development level to understand what neoliberalism is or how to stop it. What people really want is to personally benefit from neoliberalism. Which is why they vote for Trump.

Edited Wednesday at 07:45 PM by Leo Gura

[WritingHands]

I don't think this is trump rebellion... Y'all keep aiming at him but never know who's the real one behind all this 

He's just a mascot

Edited Wednesday at 07:44 PM by WritingHands

[Schizophonia]

9 minutes ago, WritingHands said:

Sounds good

If something is wrong in your psyche, having a big accident or even a disease can me in fine good.

If I blow up every member of your body with a big hammer bought from Leroy merlin you will be very happy to manifest death lol

Edited Wednesday at 07:49 PM by Schizophonia

[Schizophonia]

4 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Actually they are not. Since people keep voting for neoliberalism on steroids.

People do not have the intelligence nor development level to understand what neoliberalism is or how to stop it. What people really want is to personally benefit from neoliberalism. Which is why they vote for Trump.

You are still not marxist.

[WritingHands]

1 minute ago, Schizophonia said:

If something is wrong in your psyche, having a big accident or even a disease can me in fine good.

If I blow up every member of your body with a big hammer bought from King Merlin you will be very happy to manifest death lol

Didn't get Jack shit from what you wrote.

Whatever it is I'd like to do it to you or someone fr

[WritingHands]

1 minute ago, Schizophonia said:

You are still not marxist.

Lmao why the fuck I should be something

Please don't talk to me

[Schizophonia]

2 minutes ago, WritingHands said:

Lmao why the fuck I should be something

Please don't talk to me

I talked to leo.

Or maybe you are his secret secondary account ?