Woodbutcher wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2020 11:57 pm
The hillbillies like Trump because they can identify with him. He is stupid, lies a lot, fucks sleazy bitches and he speaks at their level. He is the local boy that made it good in their books. He is one of them, they aspire to be like him.
Which is silly because he epitomises the landed and monied elite that has fucked them over for the last 40 years or more.
It's the post-truth ear I guess: anti-racists are called racist now for calling out racism, anti-facists are called fascists now for standing up against fascism, feminists are sexist now, gay rights activists are hetrophobes, people demonstrating in an explicitly non-violent manner are called intolerant extremists, a threat to national security, or terrorists even, and somehow the gold-plated toilet brigade who've always sought to undermine human rights, employment rights, environmental standards and economic protections for poor and vulnerable members of society are now called 'men of the people'.
Our erstwhile Republican apologist and Trumpian lickspittle always used to bemoan how some ill-defined form of lefty postmodernism had made it intellectually illegal to call a spade a spade these days, that in our post-modern era anything could be whatever you said it was and that this had diluted social values and generated an abject disrespect for the rights of others to hold opinions different from one's own - but Trump embodies the very people who have prosecuted that Gaussian project with remorseless efficiency and called it a 'culture war' to protect 'freedom' or 'truth' or 'our way of life' when all along it's been nothing but identity politics in fancy trouser as articulated by those who thought The Final Solution was a splendid idea.
Trumpist complain about the lame-stream-media are in a biased frenzy over Trump but that's going to look like very small potatoes if Sanders gets anywhere near looking like he could win a presidential election. The Republicans have spent so long telling everybody that things are shit because of that black/brown/foreign/metropolitan guy over there, and calling everyone in sight an-American, far-left, or vile Socialists, that if Bernie's numbers start looking up some people are seriously going to loose their shit. I'd be surprised if Sanders can get anywhere near the steps of the White House without a bullet in his back. What was made plain during the withholding of presidential nominees to the Supreme Court under Obama, during the Mueller investigation, during the Kavanagh hearings, and now with the impeachment process, is that the powerful interests the Republican party represent have control of the farm - and the cattle trucks are coming down the lane folks to take us all to a better place.
