Posted on 07/01/2016 11:47:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
Trump gave voice to what the other 17 ignored, and still ignore, and will always ignore. In other GOP words, f the working class, they’re not Wall Street. But all but Sanders also say f the working class, they’re pro-life.
In order words, the working class is ignored.
Which as a block will continue to elect Presidents.
1- Organize 6 armies.
2- Place one east of Seattle, one east of San Francisco, one east of Los Angeles, One west of New York City, One west of Wash DC, one west of Boston.
3- Have them march to the sea.
4- Mop up Sacramento later.
5- Problem solved.
Diversity = Divide and Conquer.
The Playbook for Communism.
Hah! Benny the Hobo (err...'homeless person') is more couth than the average professional Democrat politician, Mr. Trump towers over them, not only in class, but in integrity as well, considering they have none to start with...
the infowarrior
Jail? The proper remedy for this kind, and level, of treason requires more stringent measures than mere incarceration...
the infowarrior
In 1976, Donald Warren—a sociologist from Oakland University in Michigan who would die two decades later without ever attaining the rank of full professor—published a book called The Radical Center: Middle Americans and the Politics of Alienation. Few people have read or heard of it—I learned of it about 30 years ago from the late, very eccentric paleoconservative Samuel Francis—but it is, in my opinion, one of the three or four books that best explain American politics over the past half-century.
While conducting extensive surveys of white voters in 1971 and again in 1975, Warren identified a group who defied the usual partisan and ideological divisions. These voters were not college educated; their income fell somewhere in the middle or lower-middle range; and they primarily held skilled and semi-skilled blue-collar jobs or sales and clerical white-collar jobs. At the time, they made up about a quarter of the electorate. What distinguished them was their ideology: It was neither conventionally liberal nor conventionally conservative, but instead revolved around an intense conviction that the middle class was under siege from above and below.
Warren called these voters Middle American Radicals, or MARS. “MARS are distinct in the depth of their feeling that the middle class has been seriously neglected,” Warren wrote. They saw “government as favoring both the rich and the poor simultaneously.” Like many on the left, MARS were deeply suspicious of big business: Compared with the other groups he surveyed—lower-income whites, middle-income whites who went to college, and what Warren called “affluents”—MARS were the most likely to believe that corporations had “too much power,” “don’t pay attention,” and were “too big.” MARS also backed many liberal programs: By a large percentage, they favored government guaranteeing jobs to everyone; and they supported price controls, Medicare, some kind of national health insurance, federal aid to education, and Social Security.
On the other hand, they held very conservative positions on poverty and race. They were the least likely to agree that whites had any responsibility “to make up for wrongs done to blacks in the past,” they were the most critical of welfare agencies, they rejected racial busing, and they wanted to grant police a “heavier hand” to “control crime.” They were also the group most distrustful of the national government. And in a stand that wasn’t really liberal or conservative (and that appeared, at least on the surface, to be in tension with their dislike of the national government), MARS were more likely than any other group to favor strong leadership in Washington—to advocate for a situation “when one person is in charge.”
If these voters are beginning to sound familiar, they should: Warren’s MARS of the 1970s are the Donald Trump supporters of today....
“Decades of being lied to...”
Brought to you by millions and millions voters in the electorate.
IMHO
I think the Trump GOP is more like a new third party, something many have wanted for a very long time.
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