"Trump supporters are not individualists, they are just people trying to recover privilege they *didn’t earn *and now see slipping away. "
Reminds me of a radio commentator I used to listen to, either Mike Malloy or Peter Werbe, I don't remember which. He always said that George W. Bush was "born on third base and thought he hit a home run.". On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 5:44 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > David writes: > > > > “And it would serve "the opposition" to get a clue about the fact that > the vast majority of Trump supporters do not suffer from racism, sexism, > 'genderism', "me-first-ism," etc. Instead recognize that their primary > affliction is individualism - and even libertarian-ism (despite some > obvious contradictions from the religious among them) - along with > corollaries of "anti-government control-ism," > "personal-responsibility-ism," and > "my-values-are-just-as-valid-as-yours-ism." > > > > The racism and sexism arise from the false supposition that personal > responsibility is all that is required to thrive. They fail to > acknowledge that public policy can level the playing field and give > everyone a fair chance to develop their own values and priorities for their > life – to become *individuals*. Trump supporters are not > individualists, they are just people trying to recover privilege they *didn’t > earn *and now see slipping away. They are worse than conventional > conservatives because they lack any moral center. They want to see > regressive norms because those are the only norms they can get their head > around. > > > > Marcus > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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