A really nice observation: "Trump supporters are not individualists, they are just people trying to recover privilege they didn’t earn and now see slipping away" The same phenomenon can be observed in racism, sexism and nationalism everywhere, not just in America. It happens for instance in racism where white people lose their privileges (gained by colonialism in the past) because they no longer belong to white people only. This kind of backwards directed racism must be as old as George Washington himself. Or in sexism where men fear that they lose their privileges because they no longer belong to men only. Or in nationalism where the native people fear they lose their privileges of citizenship, social benefits and election rights because immigrants get the same rights. It is a fear driven version of racism, sexism or nationalism which can be used by any skilled demagogue to win elections. - Jochen
-------- Original message --------From: Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> Date: 12/26/18 23:43 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] 2019 - The end of Trumpism 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. 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
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