I would write this article differently. And Siri may change some of my language. Brace yourselves.
The line the author takes in framing his argument begins with the American Civil War and Antietam. This sets up a false analogy. He's trying to shoehorn in the notion of a "cold civil war" using ponderous prose. The analogy does not serve his argument. Instead, he simply proves himself to be a pawn of specific ideologues. Allow me to mansplain.
What The left fails to realize, if anything, is, as the author states, the same discontent that elected Trump in the first place. But it is not the discontent of the (white) American worker.
There is a large portion of this nation that has been manipulated into believing that they have been cast off. As someone who has family in rural Virginia, I can see how people would make the leap. Public school system sucks out there. Food deserts abound in the midst of agricultural zones. But they are not the average Trump voter. There are plenty of articles and research essays that clearly demonstrate that the average Trump voter is an upper-middle-class white male and not his rural uncle. White middle-class evangelical women also love Trump. And let us not forget thenlarge percentage of white mainline Christians who voted "against Hillary."
The Evil of racism is still alive in this country. No question. The fear of the "browning of America" is also a social phenomenon. But what is behind all of this fear of cultural change or the loss of historical white identity in the south, for example, is a cohort of incredibly wealthy and influential people who are banging the drums of discontent. They are creating the Brett Kavanaghs. They are inciting the right. They have built this volcano and our intrepid author has fallen into their trap.
Our issue isn't that the moderate to right leaning lower middle-class American worker has been mobilized. That's the symptom. Our problem is much more nefarious. It's specific hyper-capitalists trying to dismantle the federal government so that they can make more money and further their influence and power.
Read: https://itunes.apple.com/…/democracy-in-chains/id1105229084…
As someone once said recently, the issue isn't Roe v. Wade, the issue is Brown v. The Board of Education.
The left is not oblivious to the ramblings of a volcano. It is that the only tool that they have at their disposal is making more noise than the volcano does.
Why is this? That's the question we need answered.
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