The “forgotten” man will never meld with fringe lunatic liberals.
Art History majors look like geniuses compared to these SJW clowns
This is good.
Also "bitter", "clinging", "coal people", "typical white person", "basket of deplorables" come to mind immediately. Racist &c go without saying.
Dems are too busy courting the men-in-womens’-bathrooms, don’t-bogart-the-bong, pro-sodomy, Hate-America vote to be concerned about anyone normal.
Hopefully they have lost the old Reagan “silent majority” for good.
For a long time democrats have benefited from the leftover belief that they are the party of the blue collar, working people.
In fact 50 years ago they turned their backs on patriots and working people and hitched their wagon to the moocher/criminal/illegal alien/wealthy leftist elements.
The only things that have kept the working class voting democrat ‘til now are the residual effect (the family has always been democrat) and the wealthy labor union bosses.
Let’s hope that Donald Trump has changed that for good.
Let us hope that the entire political left joins in the Snowflake Meltdown.
I want to see them double down on the very attitudes and behaviors that have cost them nearly 1,400 elective offices since 2006.
Do it, snowflakes!
A better story would be for the Washington Post or the NY Times to send a reporter to rural Minnesota and find out why in such a ‘blue’ state, nearly every county outside of the Twin Cities, Duluth, and Rochester went 60-80% for Donald Trump.
Perhaps if they did that they would learn why Hillary Clinton lost - and - why the GOP won so many other races on November 8th.
I thought William Powell was the forgotten man.
But this was always the case with the hard Left, for whom an exaggerated regard for the working class seldom included actual membership. And it was true from the very beginning: Proudhon, for example, a genuine working man shoved to the side in the First International by the working man's hero Marx who actually never held an honest job, Bakunin, prototypical anarchist whose family owned "only" 500 serfs, Engels, whose father was a factory owner; these were later incorporated in Lenin's theory into a revolutionary vanguard nominally of the working class but in fact who admired the working class without the sad necessity actually of belonging.
In short, it's a fake and always has been. Revolutionary vanguard gave way to cadre, to Party, and then to a New Class aristocracy, wealthy, corrupt, and eventually senescent. The state never did wither away as promised, but the vanguard did.
So the weird New Left coalition of soft-handed entertainment and media celebrities, academics and their students, and professional politicians far more skilled at acquiring power than using it responsibly, isn't really anything new. It's a lot more visible now that the skeptical public has found an alternate voice in the Internet and broken the lock on the part of the New Class on communications. This forum, for example.
The regard on the Left for oppressed minorities is sharply bounded by the ability to translate those classes into power. The ecological vanguard doesn't give a crap about the coal miners, for example, and wants them all dead or out of the way. Were those miners more adept at gathering power, i.e. cash, for the Left, that might be a different thing, but ecological activism is far more lucrative. A dirt-poor black farmer is nowhere as interesting as a fiery black urban orator in a thousand-dollar suit capable of burning whole neighborhoods and of wholesale intimidation and extortion. That's power. Actual women who raise families - Sarah Palin, for example - are marginalized if they can't be radicalized, to the point where they are grandly declared not women at all, unlike that avatar of things feminine, Hillary Capone Clinton. Of course it makes no sense, it isn't intended to make sense, it's intended to make power and to force the nonsensical on the public is demonstration of brute power.
Another facet of this odd jewel is the working class itself, in this country at least very far indeed from the Marxian proletariat. Yes, they will tend to vote class interests, but given that union pension funds are among the largest investors in the stock market, those are capitalist interests, not revolutionary ones. Visit a factory sometime. The first thing you will encounter is a large parking lot full of working-class motor vehicles. No proletarian could ever aspire to that. And so part of the disassociation between revolutionary cadre and working class is that the cadre never were members of the class to begin with and the class has become utterly unlike Marxist imaginings. That's a very large gulf to span with spin.
They're no longer even trying except in impassioned dorm room polemics where the more perfervid True Believers are neither cadre nor worker and never will be. The Left is becoming further and further divorced from reality with each passing day. Marx had a term for that, too: "alienation". The irony abounds.
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The “Forgotten Man” does Not Forget .