Posted on 06/18/2024 8:15:10 AM PDT by River Hawk
A woman named Lilly Gaddis recently went viral for a video bemoaning how “theater kids and nerds” run our society. "So, all those nerds in high school, like the weird theater kids and the anime people. You know who I'm talking about, the people we didn't hang out with, so they've grown up now, and they're the ones making the laws," Gaddis warned in her TikTok.
This video was a hit with RW Twitter and conservatives. It aligns with a popular conception on that right-wingers were the popular jocks in high school while the libs were the nerds. It’s obviously reassuring to imagine that your side are the cool kids and the other side are the losers. But it’s probably not the best way to imagine politics. If you’ve been in right-wing circles, you realize that most were probably not jocks in high school. That doesn’t mean they’re all weirdos (though there are a fair number of those types). It just means this dynamic doesn’t actually capture the political and social divide among white Americans.
If we’re going to use a school metaphor for America’s divide, the better dynamic is front row kids versus back row kids. Coined by journalist Chris Arnade when Donald Trump first took the nation by storm in 2016, it illustrates what separates white conservatives and white liberals. It doesn’t cover the racial divides in America–just what distinguishes white Americans from one another.
The back row can have a nice life and many of its members do achieve the American Dream. But they don’t have real power–the front row does, and that naturally makes the back row mad.
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Aw, they’re still sore she used the “N-word” (do we capitalize that? I’m not sure anymore).
When the desire for the unearned meets the desire for revenge on those who have earned without having the “right” credentials, the Democrat politician is born. :)
The divide is between the academically credentialed new “authorities” and those who do not accept their authority.
An odd place to end up: the people who coined the phrase “Question Authority” will try to destroy you if you dare question THEIR authority.
Not so odd. The leaders of the movement which included "Questing Authority" were always about destroying the American Republic and replacing it with a Marxist dictatorship.
Never trust a nerd over thirty.
She’s got a screw loose.
I don't need to be blacksplained to. It's not all about them.
Lilly did a long-format interview with Tommy Sotomayor:
Good interview in my opinion, if you want to know what she actually thinks.
Of course if you want your news and your opinion of her spoon-fed from some jabbering “commentator” then by all means have at it. :)
The difference is
- There’s folks that want to be left the phoook alone,
- and then there’s folks that believe they know better, and want you to do what they say “for your own good”.
The People vs The State
The Country Class vs The Ruling Class
MAGA vs Dem Oligarchs, Thieves, and Petty Tyrants.
Us vs Them
It has ever been thus
47 is gonna be Epic!
While a male Democrat might not be as scarce as a hen’s tooth, to find a masculine Democrat is another matter.
Are you kidding me??? Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey, Al Gore => these are NOT jocks!!! The whole financial underpinning of the left is nerd money!!!
Nothing against nerds, geeks, and various other ASD names, because I am one myself. Just some of us are caught up in the ultimate power, ruling class visions of grandeur, “we are smarter/better” than all those stupid people paradigm => while others of us are freedom loving conservatives.
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