Have you ever noticed the Fox News feed is constantly filled with reports about stuff that was broadcasted on MSNBC/CNN? Its vice versa as well. Angry mobs generate more clicks I guess
It’s not just that. The new deal was populism that benefitted the working class and the wealthy and top ten percent of income earners can’t ever let it happen again.
so what do you do? How does ten percent rule over 90?
What politics
actually is … is the following… go in someone’s home and ask them “what concerns you? When you’re struggling in a given day, what are you fighting against?”
For very few the answer might be “I want taxes to be non existent so that I can take profits from my business and become even more of a king than I am.” For a few more it may be “I’m a suburban professional so I want a nice retirement in Naples Florida or wherever the f.”
for most it’s things like healthcare, food cost, the cost of being able to get their kid a basic college education, upward class mobility. All the things that the new deal era addressed for working class people. The promise of my parents upbringing .. “work 40 hours a week and you’ll have a life and the basics.”
the media and political parties are owned by billionaires. I’d estimate less than 10 posters on GBI are among the real core constituency of both.
if I came in and took the issues everyone would give you if you went in their home and asked them.. and drew a horizontal line to represent top and bottom.. 10 and 90%.. what the media and parties do is turn that paper sideways and say “no.. WHAT YOU THINK is important to you isn’t really important to you, let me offer you this shiny object that’s your REAL concern. It’s not feeding your family while working two jobs, its abortion.”
that’s why nobody gives a flying f about the news and when the tech companies didn’t mess with algorithms etc Jimmy dore would get more views than msnbc and why the biggest voting blocks are people who don’t vote THEN independents THEN partisan people in the upper income brackets.
because politics and the news can’t EVER be allowed to address CLASS issues again.
whether you agree with me or not, pay attention to the gymnastics both “sides” (spoiler alert: RIGHT AND LEFT isn’t real, it’s the top 10% against everyone else.. Google the Princeton study) will go through to avoid working class issues.
It’s why my son asked me something about the news when he was 13 and I said “me and your mom work working class jobs, you aren’t their audience.”