The more horrible your situation is (and the more powerless you see yourself as being able to change it) the more likely you are to divert (or be diverted) into cultural issues that you feel strongly about that you believe yo CAN change.
And the people currently benefitting n the power structure are glad to facilitate that as long as it doesn't look like it will hurt them.
The more horrible your situation is (and the more powerless you see yourself as being able to change it) the more likely you are to divert (or be diverted) into cultural issues that you feel strongly about that you believe yo CAN change.
And the people currently benefitting n the power structure are glad to facilitate that as long as it doesn't look like it will hurt them.
Also, it is far easier for any given тАЬweтАЭ to say what тАЬweтАЭ are against than what тАЬweтАЭwant, because it only makes sense to be against things as they are (or can be parodied that way). It is easy and profitable to specify grievances, and it requires no responsibility for imagining or articulating what тАЬweтАЭ would do differently (see: Obamacare). It is impossible to govern if government itself is тАЬthe problemтАЭ underlying every grievance.
Powerless people are easily manipulated. In the case of Trump and his cult, he had to carefully nurture their feelings of powerlessness, because in reality their lives are pretty fine, relatively speaking.
Rush Limbaugh and Faux News working on behalf of Republican billionaires had that ball rolling decades ago. They stimulated resentments against the "others" and the "elites" so they could hoodwink citizens to vote against their own economic interests. Trump was the first to realize that their resentments could be turned against the very people who had instigated and nurtured them in the 1st place.
The more horrible your situation is (and the more powerless you see yourself as being able to change it) the more likely you are to divert (or be diverted) into cultural issues that you feel strongly about that you believe yo CAN change.
And the people currently benefitting n the power structure are glad to facilitate that as long as it doesn't look like it will hurt them.
Also, it is far easier for any given тАЬweтАЭ to say what тАЬweтАЭ are against than what тАЬweтАЭwant, because it only makes sense to be against things as they are (or can be parodied that way). It is easy and profitable to specify grievances, and it requires no responsibility for imagining or articulating what тАЬweтАЭ would do differently (see: Obamacare). It is impossible to govern if government itself is тАЬthe problemтАЭ underlying every grievance.
Powerless people are easily manipulated. In the case of Trump and his cult, he had to carefully nurture their feelings of powerlessness, because in reality their lives are pretty fine, relatively speaking.
Rush Limbaugh and Faux News working on behalf of Republican billionaires had that ball rolling decades ago. They stimulated resentments against the "others" and the "elites" so they could hoodwink citizens to vote against their own economic interests. Trump was the first to realize that their resentments could be turned against the very people who had instigated and nurtured them in the 1st place.
"Trump was the first to realize that their resentments could be turned against the very people who had instigated and nurtured them in the 1st place."
Bingo!