VOX April 21, 2016
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism
By the 1990s the better part of the working class wanted nothing to do with the word liberal.
What remained of the American progressive elite was left to puzzle: Why did they abandon us?
What's the matter with Kansas?
The trouble is that stupid hicks don't know what's good for them. They're getting conned by right-wingers and tent revivalists until they believe all the lies that've made them so wrong. They don't know any better. That's why they're voting against their own self-interest.
There’s self-interest then there’s simply doing the right thing.
California, sadly, is lost. The only way to fix it is to not only physically remove every single illegal but to also revoke all anchor baby citizenships. Neither of which will happen even though it’s the right thing to do.
>>The trouble is that stupid hicks don’t know what’s good for them. They’re getting conned by right-wingers and tent revivalists until they believe all the lies that’ve made them so wrong. They don’t know any better. That’s why they’re voting against their own self-interest.
That’s pure Marx right there, adapted to modern language. Their war is always against those stupid petit bourgeois who work and vote as if they can get ahead. The petit bourgeois is the Marxist term for the middle class folks. To the Marxist, the rich are the enemy, but the middle class are traitors. You defeat an enemy, but you execute traitors.
That’s our future if they win. They win if they always control the fight.