Friday, February 19, 2016
Cleanse the capital city
I have written before that one way of viewing American society is to see it in three classes: 1) the working class, 2) the dependency class, and 3) the ruling class. When we see society through this lens, we realize that the ruling class stays in power primarily by taking from the working class and giving to the dependency class.
Pat Buchanon recently explained why Trump and Sanders are riding so high: “America’s establishment has failed America. The single clearest message in the presidential campaign of 2015-2016 is that the American people would like to cleanse our capital city of its ruling class.”
Of course, the reason for Trump's success is different from Sanders'. With Trump, people believe the ruling class has been taking too much whereas with Sanders, they believe it hasn't been taking enough.
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They both believe the politicians in DC have become the ruling class, but Sanders also believes the capitalists have also become the ruling class and the rulers of the politicians. To a degree, Trump says the same thing by calling them the donor class, but the difference is Trump has not offered how to stop the capitalist influence of our government. Will certainly be an interesting campaign year. That's for sure.
Actually I think a lot of the Trump supporters are just thrilled with all his building a wall talk and Mexico will pay for it, banning Muslims, and him calling our government a bunch of idiots.
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