Red Mosquito

Asked whether government ‘is run for the benefit of all the people’ or is ‘pretty much run by a few big interests looking out for themselves’ in the 1960s only a minority said that it was run by big interests. In recent years this number has risen to eight-in-ten. In the current study this leapt to an unprecedented 92 percent. Among angry Trump supporters, 99 percent said the government is run for big interests, rather than the people.

If VOP is right—and after a decade on the road talking about this issue, their survey certainly confirms my own impression about the attitudes of the Americans I’ve spoken to—then what “the media” was talking about was precisely what Americans were caring about. And if that’s true, then what’s striking—indeed, malpractice-level-striking—about the Clinton campaign was its studied refusal to engaged about an issue so central to Americans. Her platform was fine — indeed, as I had commented, great—on the issue. But America had no clue about the platform, because Clinton had left the field to Donald Trump. He in turn picked up the ball (“drain the swamp”) and ran. And thus, while, as the New York Times reported, Clinton dominated Trump on every policy-wonk dimension, Trump dominated Clinton on the one dimension that was actually linked to this “unprecedented” public anger — the likelihood of being an agent of change.

Self wrote:Interesting.

https://antidotezine.com/2017/01/22/trump-knows-you/

Theil's argument ran into resistance across the political spectrum....Both Obama and Romney ended up in the wrong place: the former thought American exceptionalism was no longer true and should be given up, while the latter thought it was still true. Neither was willing to tell Americans that they were no longer exceptional but should try to be again.

Bi_3 wrote:Sanders is a clown, but he would dominate Cruz or almost any other "leader" of the red team.

B wrote:Y'know, Trump supporters say that liberals were surprised by Trump's win because we ignored how much pain middle America was in. It's not like I didn't know how bad some people had it. It's not that I don't feel for them.

BurtReynolds wrote:Hopefully this will tie up his attention for a long time.

Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:

B wrote:Y'know, Trump supporters say that liberals were surprised by Trump's win because we ignored how much pain middle America was in. It's not like I didn't know how bad some people had it. It's not that I don't feel for them.

I don't feel bad for them when they respond to extreme poverty by voting for the guy who is going to take everything they have left. I don't feel bad at all. Stupid is as stupid does.

I also don't feel bad for people who are over-privleged and then whine like babies that they are victims of the under-prilveged. I won't even entertain the thought of listening to their nonsense.

B wrote:Y'know, Trump supporters say that liberals were surprised by Trump's win because we ignored how much pain middle America was in. It's not like I didn't know how bad some people had it. It's not that I don't feel for them.

It's that I never believed they were stupid enough to believe that this idiotic, self-centered, lying billionaire who built his career or screwing everyone he thought wasn't as good as he was gave a shit about them.

*sigh*