I blame Game of Thrones.
Suddenly Western pop media narratives could expand from beyond the outsider hero and a cast of 3 others (mentor, love interest and nemesis) to all sorts of different groups with different values competing for different interests.
That’s why Trump confuses so many.
He is hated and distrusted by the Military Industrial Complex because he has zero appetite of interest in geo-political warfare. As a business man he wants a trade war with China and a truce with Russia.
His preference is to build roads and bridges rather than waste cash on another foreign adventure. The vast majority of white poor folk who voted Trump are the also the same ones who keep getting pushed into fighting these wars.
Those communities are tired and want their sons and daughters home with all their limbs and minds intact.
However, just because the Military Industrial Complex and its war machine lust hates Trump, that’s no reason for any decent human being to respect or support Trump.
He is a sexist, racist, crypto-fascist who seems to revel in his ignorance. His basic lack of grace dignity and respect is nothing to celebrate in any leader.
The biggest mistake the Left and Progressives have made however is in assuming that because Trump is a sexist, racist, crypto-fascist that means all those who voted for him were sexist, racist, crypto-fascists. There’s no question that some of Trump’s voters are sexist, racist, crypto-fascists, but certainly not the majority and screaming ‘racist, sexist, Nazi’ at those Trump voters misses their economic pain and their realities of free market neoliberal globalisation.
The Left’s need to blame Russia and brand all Trump voters as sexist, racist, crypto-fascists allows the Left to conveniently ignore their own role in alienating those poor white voters. Like many legacy left wing Political Parties in modern democracies, Hillary offered those hurt by the free market nothing by more neoliberal globalisation.
The lesson here for Progressives is that they actually need to examine the economic platform from which they are preaching because those who are labouring and paying the highest price for keeping that economic platform standing are the ones who are benefiting the least from it.
If you want to be an honest person there are some great lessons to learn from this article
“The Left’s need to blame Russia and brand all Trump voters as sexist, racist, crypto-fascists allows the Left to conveniently ignore their own role in alienating those poor white voters. ”
I believe that’s closer to the truth than many realise.
Trump is a safer bet for the USA people Hillary was a puppet for the Global Elite & Wall Street, these crazy wars and USA interventions in the name of humanity need to cease. Reflect back on Cuba, South America, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, the people in these countries were made worse off from USA Intervention.
+100
I mean who really wants to bet on the tallest dwarf but +100 all the same
There’s a lot of truths smattered all through out your article, Martyn.
Truth the Left really needs to take to heart. For far too long the Lefts constant drift towards Identity politics played right into the far right neo liberal globalists hands.
That’s the facts.
And while supporting of minority political/ racial / groups etc is important … as soon as the Left takes their eyes off the ball and forgets the fundamentals of economics ,… in those core fields of health , education , welfare and the like … they crumble. Because it is there that many of the inequality’s start.
You want women’s rights ? … then make sure they get equal pay for doing the same job as a man. And while your at it – how about paying those women a wage who choose to stay at home and nurture our greatest future assets – our nations children ?
You want ethnic groups to get a fair deal if their community is struggling with health issues? – then make sure we have a taxation system that covers them and everybody else by having a progressive tax system and making sure these corporate bludger’s pay their fair share of tax.
Im not so sure Trump is a racist – I certainly wouldn’t trust the corporate media’s slant on him – even now you can tell they are working hard at undermining Trump. Seems to me Trump has plenty of different ethnic groups and people supporting him. He has a lot of time for the military but not so much for the spooks.
I would imagine he knows only too well how the CIA have operated outside of international law in the past and caused all manner of headaches for former Presidents … remember JFK threatened to ‘ splinter the CIA ‘ into a thousand pieces ‘… I suspect Trump also takes to heart such as this speech by Eisenhower …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWiIYW_fBfY
He seems to demonstrate this distaste for shadow govts in this as well..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELiIWAkmZ8w
Then this …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bjmm4vXe2I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23yfBWH8Hjk
Stick him in a tin hat, steel capped boots , a checked shirt and a pair of Levi jeans , call him Archie Bunker and there you have him. Rough , raw, bombastic … someone out of an earlier era … a product also of the era of Blood and Guts General George Patton and MacArthur.
Despite all that Trump is , … Trump is a business man at heart – and – like all business types recognizes war is bad for business.
I think you said it well here :
” The Left’s need to blame Russia and brand all Trump voters as sexist, racist, crypto-fascists allows the Left to conveniently ignore their own role in alienating those poor white voters. Like many legacy left wing Political Parties in modern democracies, Hillary offered those hurt by the free market nothing by more neoliberal globalisation. ”
And if anything, the Left needs to recess its privileged elitist core with their vested interests and compromised positions that have so easily – and eagerly in some cases – allowed themselves to be subverted over the last 3 decades by the neo liberal right wing ,… to the point where so many of them garner even more contempt from the struggling poor than those who at least declare their open hostility towards the poor …
Finally , – and again – this video interview between John Pilger and Julian Assange demonstrates just how perverted and subverted the so called ‘ Left’ seems to have let itself become in its delusions … which really isn’t ‘ Left ‘ at all – simply just a cover for international global neo liberalism …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9xbokQO4M0 ( short version )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sbT3_9dJY4 ( full version )
+100 WILD KATIPO…very well said!…a lot of the so-called liberal Left political parties and Clinton supporters are comfortable middle class w..kers…with no real understanding of the working class or democracy ( and in NZ look at what the Labour Party did to Hone Harawira and the Mana Party!…a real Left Party and potential coalition partner!)
Hillary Clinton epitomises the corruption on the neolib, neocon Left….crooked as all hell…declaring war on countries like Libya, destroying it and its legitimate leader Gaddafi …and ripping off the least fortunate through her ‘charitable’ Foundation!
‘The Clinton Foundation: Largest Unprosecuted Criminal Global Charity Fraud and Conspiracy Ever’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bqoco4HkHM
Lionel Nation on Donald haters:
‘The Celebrity Anti-Trump Scrum Is Based Merely on Profound Hatred, Jealousy and Ignorance’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OOsQ3IrC00
‘Trump Inauguration: Naked Media Bias, Alt-Left Fake News, Incoherent Protests and Disconnected Rage’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTfGF-e_WA4
“‘The Celebrity Anti-Trump Scrum Is Based Merely on Profound Hatred, Jealousy and Ignorance’”
No, Chooky, it’s based on Trump’s racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and other bigotted utterances.
Trump spews out so much bigotry no one needs to make anything up.
I’m disappointed at the number of sycophants who think Trump is some kind of “messiah”. He’s not. He’s an ass who got elected by the ignorant, to represent the ignorant.
QUOTE; “January 20 2017 will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.”
“What truly matters is not what party controls our government but that this government is controlled by the people.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-us-president-inauguration-speech-america-first-winning-rulers-nation-borders-jobs-roads-a7538091.html
Yes Martyn,
There are considerations and in everything our Governments do and most importantly negative consequences resulting from them.
The point is has the Governments’ ever learned from past history?
From where I stand it seems that our Leaders do not even consider past history and we should force them to consider every step they choose before they do.
Today Donald Trump said the most important words of consideration we all have wanted to hear for a long time.
QUOTE President Trump said “Today, January 20 2017 will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-us-president-inauguration-speech-america-first-winning-rulers-nation-borders-jobs-roads-a7538091.html
Some MSM channels are now calling trump “the peoples’ president”.
We truly hope this is going to be the future as we need the Government’s around the world to begin to hear us all and do the right thing before the world explodes.
I don’t cheer for any boss class politician, left, right or centre.
Scratch an Obama and you get a Trump.
Trump is talking about attacking the minorities. OK people are taking that seriously and that is a good start.
But Obama has a proven track record of Droning to Death thousands of ‘terrorists’ regardless of their racial composition or sexual orientation.
What are the anti-Trumpers doing about that?
Most swallowed the lie that they were ‘terrorists’ and deserved to die.
Tell that to the 10s of thousands of Syrian kids who never lived to find out what racism is or what sexuality is.
The only people I cheer for are those that stand up to capitalism and all if its ‘tools’ in power or out.
The working class are the majority, its time it acted like one.
If it did nothing could stop it.
Three cheers for the workers’ revolution!
What worries me is that now that the U$A is in such a weakened state, it’d be a great opportunity for a pre emptive strike against it.
And if that proved to be the case, that strike wouldn’t intentionally be against the American people per se, it’d be against its financial institutions which, it could be argued, are dragging the planet and all its astronauts into oblivion.
I think, that while we humans have the best intentions, even the worst of us, there will always be our bi-segmented brain systems to contend with. On one hand, we have an instinct to love and feel for others. On the other hand, we have a desire, a manic obsession to have it all. No matter what.
While there are humans, there will be conflict.
The real, true and very dangerous enemy amongst us are the banks. The Banks are behind trump and others, manipulating and bribing the dark side of the mind. Walk along the dreadful and bleak Auckland down town area, where the 1980’s monstrosities loom over head like horrible alien space ships. Sucking in your time on earth and shitting out your spent bones. The Banks and their cohorts, the insurers. When those violently ugly buildings are burning? Then I’ll know real change is afoot.
And some of the Posts and comments here? I mean, really. Ever heard of the word ‘ hypocrisy’. Try replacing hypocrisy with honesty.
Why is Trump racist?
(I must have missed that piece of fake news)
Because he wants to kill a lot of Muslims and I’m not going to entertain this anymore.
Posted with out fuck all links/references/citation
Sam – well bloody said, mate.
Andrew – you’re an idiot.
Andrew – GOOD POINT.
WHY is Trump PORTRAYED as “Racist”? and by WHOM-
=the Mass Media ONLY.(THEY, of course being employed by their Masters)
HEY!!!!!
1) What happens when a Mass Culture whose values CLASH with one’s own is invited to stay (-en Mass) in one’s Homeland ?
Result = CHAOS & STRIFE
2) Is this a normal & wise choice? ((no))
3) THIS is COMMONSENSE…..
SO WHAT IS “RACIST” ABOUT THAT??????????
SAM
Last time I looked Islam wasn’t a race and his stated intention is to destroy “Islamic terrorism”.
Or are you in favour of terrorism
CASSIE
Excellent point. It’s obvious to anyone with a brain that this is just Social Justice Warriors in the media using empty slogans to attack him. It didn’t work.
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