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Trumpism Needs to Be Seen as a Symptom
Otherwise, the underlying issues will never be addressed and his brand of politics will keep winning
All the promises of the “free market,” globalization and trickle-down economics have been exposed as a lie, an empty ideology used to satiate greed. The elites have no counterargument to their anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist critics. The attempt to blame the electoral insurgencies in the United States’ two ruling political parties on Russian Interference, rather than massive social inequality — the worst in the industrialized world — is a desperate ploy. The courtiers in the corporate press are working feverishly, day and night, to distract us from reality. The moment the elites are forced to acknowledge social inequality as the root of our discontent is the moment they are forced to acknowledge their role in orchestrating this inequality. — Chris Hedges
It’s too easy to look at Trump’s vote count in 2020, furrow one’s brow in frustrated anger, and dismiss them all as red-hat-wearing unreachable loons. That’s what a lot of Americans do. The media and Democrats add to the condescension and a lot of political pieces on Medium have that same moral posturing. It all leads to further division and anger.
