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Now? E for content: The democratic party (and new labour, the french socialists, etc.) were partly victims of their own success. The post war years saw huge improvements in living standards and social welfare and that made established liberals less focused on class struggle and the rising tide to lift all boats and more invested in other issues of social justice and power politics. The neoliberal consensus emerged at a time when everyone was distracted by culture war issues and the fall of communism and since then has been maintained through inertia and the capture of the old left by monied interests. Neoliberalism is great if you're an educated technocrat and so much of its opposition comes from ignorant assholes that a toxic elitism has been allowed to fester for far too long. The idea that the same rubes who are dead wrong on issues of war, justice, and civil rights might have legitimate greivances on trade and rural infrastructure runs counter to ingrained tribalism and the corresponding failure of the conservative "intellectual" class to address these issues in coherent and humane ways has created a vacuum for frauds and blowhards to claim this bloc instead. Since people like Trump are anathema to educated liberals if any stripe, the only conclusion must be that the people who voted for him are too stupid or evil to listen to. Duckbox fucked around with this message at 02:53 on May 1, 2017 |
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