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Originally Posted by dead_battery
the question is what are the reasons for the right wing backlash thats been steadily building?
some of it is displaced class anger and resentment
some of it is a white geronotocracy growing senile, paranoid and self indulgent.
most of it it is psychological dislocation brought about by technology which is misunderstood and directed at "elites" |
YES. all 3.
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Originally Posted by dead_battery
also, it all comes down to baudrillard.
you have 2 basic narratives of reality being sold to people who can chose which to buy, and they are diverging so much that its becoming impossible for any kind of consensual reality to be agreed upon. the trumpenproletarians will claim it was rigged, and its becoming ever more difficult for their to be an official narrative, which trump, the liar, is exploiting
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and yes, this is the right-wing media issue pointed by the article i linked.
sure the so-called "liberal" american media has massive first-world capitalist bias already, but the wingnuts are on a whole new level of fantasyland that defies comprehension by rational minds. this is why for the first time in ages democrats are winning "college educated whites". big intellectual divorce there, dont' know how it will settle.