"why Donald Trump is successfully playing on fear and nationalism"
Bernie Sanders tried to pit the 1% against the 99%. This is also playing on fears and attempting to squash a minority through mob rule. Hillary is doing the exact same thing and now bringing the middle class into the mix by creating government programs that will reduce the middle class even further through taxes and regulations. California is a perfect example of this sort of governing: there is almost no middle class. You have the rich and the poor.
When I visit SF, I see more people on the streets/homeless than anywhere in the country.
I'm personally sick of the media (also shown in the DNC leaked emails) destroying anyone that doesn't go along with the current narrative of the day and all of the social media sites running with it as if these are facts.
Even expressing a dissenting opinion usually means: bullying, personal attacks, and finally silencing. I can't tell you how many people have been banned from Twitter and Facebook in the last couple of months for merely going against the opinions of the founders. Is this what we want in a free society?
Do I want Trump for president? No. But I want a stop to the madness. I wish we could actually have someone more moderate as a presidential candidate because I have views from both political sides.
I know several people who are voting for Trump even though they can't stand him because they think it will send a message. It's basically a "F-U" vote. I even know one who supported Sanders and is now voting for Trump.
Trump and Sanders are/were both very anti-establishment candidates, and their popularity comes from the fact that both talk about the economic collapse of the American interior.
I also get a strong sense that Brexit was a "F-U" vote. It's less about ideology than just blind hatred for the establishment at this point. If you're a member of the unnecessariat you have no future and nothing to lose, and the more jobs get outsourced or automated away the larger the unnecessariat will become. This will end in either totalitarian fascism or socialism. Since it's more about hate than ideology whether we get a Putin or a Chavez probably just depends on which side (hard left or hard right) fields a more appealing and charismatic demagogue at the right time.
Dunno, but I'd guess that no chance of winning equals no chance of genuinely sending a message. The objective from what I've heard people say is to cause genuine disruption, like Brexit or electing a blowhard casino boss as President.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 17.2 ms ] threadBernie Sanders tried to pit the 1% against the 99%. This is also playing on fears and attempting to squash a minority through mob rule. Hillary is doing the exact same thing and now bringing the middle class into the mix by creating government programs that will reduce the middle class even further through taxes and regulations. California is a perfect example of this sort of governing: there is almost no middle class. You have the rich and the poor.
When I visit SF, I see more people on the streets/homeless than anywhere in the country.
I'm personally sick of the media (also shown in the DNC leaked emails) destroying anyone that doesn't go along with the current narrative of the day and all of the social media sites running with it as if these are facts.
Even expressing a dissenting opinion usually means: bullying, personal attacks, and finally silencing. I can't tell you how many people have been banned from Twitter and Facebook in the last couple of months for merely going against the opinions of the founders. Is this what we want in a free society?
Do I want Trump for president? No. But I want a stop to the madness. I wish we could actually have someone more moderate as a presidential candidate because I have views from both political sides.
Trump and Sanders are/were both very anti-establishment candidates, and their popularity comes from the fact that both talk about the economic collapse of the American interior.
I also get a strong sense that Brexit was a "F-U" vote. It's less about ideology than just blind hatred for the establishment at this point. If you're a member of the unnecessariat you have no future and nothing to lose, and the more jobs get outsourced or automated away the larger the unnecessariat will become. This will end in either totalitarian fascism or socialism. Since it's more about hate than ideology whether we get a Putin or a Chavez probably just depends on which side (hard left or hard right) fields a more appealing and charismatic demagogue at the right time.
https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/
Why not vote for a non establishment party then, like libertarian?