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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Look up how people in the top 25 per cent of income and the top 25 per cent in educational attainment voted in Brexit. The elites aren’t a handful of rich demagogues. The elite are the educated, professional class who run government, education, culture, and corporations. Many of us posting here are elites. If you’re university educated, have parents who are university educated, a spouse who’s university educated, you have transportable skills, and you earn a good living in the knowledge economy, then you’re a winner in our society. And you increasingly have different values and interests from the mass of lumpenfolk. Sorry if that makes you feel uncomfortable.
The total audience for Fox News is only a fraction of Americans. Same with the Daily Mail in the UK. And newspapers have owned by right-wing interests for generations, but what we’re seeing in politics today is not business as usual. Blaming the fissures opening up in society on a handful of bad actors is wishful thinking. The bad actors are exploiting the divisions in our society, but they didn’t create them.
Take a few minutes to read the article I linked to. Or if you’re genuinely interested in the subject of populism, read Gurri’s book. It’s not left vs right boilerplate. It’s an analysis of how the loss of elite control of information has undermined the authority of our institutions, and the challenge it poses to democracy.
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I read it.
The Trump supporter being poor is a myth. They may not be educated. But they aren't poor.
Poor people vote more democrats, rich people vote more for Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...president.html