Political Abuse

[David Morris]

Trumps voters are either cynically wealthy or power-hungry Republicans or
rubes who fell for his con act, and the Rude Pundit frames it so well:

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2017/01/fuck-you-rural-elitists.html

What you’re calling “elitism” is just simply not being ignorant. We don’t
have our heads shoved up Jesus’s ass. And when the left gets angry because
of how fucking dumb some of the shit coming out of rural and red mouths is,
we’re told we need to understand what they believe. No, we’re just gonna
say that stupid is stupid.

You can stop explaining the white working class rural conservative
Christian farming folk, hot-takers and self-justifiers. Instead, why don’t
you explain liberalism to them? Why don’t you explain that jobs are drying
up and communities are dying not because of abortion and same-sex marriage
but because of Republican economic policies that have favored the wealthy,
most of whom live in cities, including a certain president-elect they voted
for who took advantage of those very policies in order to stay rich?
Ultimately, though, it won’t matter. Because despite every fucking word to
the contrary, the real problem is that those who voted for Trump are
racist. They are sexist. They are Islamophobic. They are ignorant.

The whole thrust of these “let’s learn about the yokels” articles is to
imply that there are real Americans and there are coastal elites. Sorry,
motherfuckers. We’re all Americans. And if I have to suffer under your
stupid, you have to hear about our smarts.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 5:25 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> A lot of the discussion about how the people who voted for Trump see
> themselves, how they view their position in the nation, in the nation's
> history and so on and how capitalism has, saturated their views, their
> hearts and minds, this is a kind of collective subjectivity sure. Trump
> understands this and most of his critics don't understand that he
> understands this and thus they don't understand him.
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> I'd have said this applies as much to ways of Western capitalism as it
>> does to authoritarian regimes. The hoo ha about alt facts/false news seems
>> to me to be a sign that the longstanding consensus (Gramsci's collective
>> subjective) is breaking down, and the general populace is becoming open to
>> different narratives as they look for fresh certainties to underpin their
>> day to day lives. How much these narratives cleave to longer term realities
>> are not as important as their appeal to shorter term emotional needs.
>>
>> On 24-Jan-17 4:10 PM, David Morris wrote:
>>
>> http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/01/22/is-shawn-spicer-gasl
>> ighting-the-press/
>>
>> The truly horrible thing about propaganda in authoritarian regimes is not
>> that it convinces the true believers, but that it demoralizes opponents by
>> saying in effect: “Yes, we know that you know we are lying, but we don’t
>> care! We do it because we can and you can’t stop us!” As for the majority
>> of apolitical citizens, it infects them with a corrosive cynicism and
>> dissuades them from all forms of public engagement. Apathy may be a more
>> powerful silencer of dissent than overt physical coercion.
>>
>>
>>
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