Trump and the American Divide

[4est_4est_Gump]

Victor Davis Hanson, City Journal

At 7 AM in California’s rural Central Valley, not long before the recent presidential election, I stopped to talk with an elderly irrigator on the shared border alleyway of my farm. His face was a wrinkled latticework, his false teeth yellow. His truck smelled of cigarettes, its cab overflowing with flotsam and jetsam: butts, scribbled notes, drip-irrigation parts, and empty soda cans. He rolled down the window and muttered something about the plunging water-table level and whether a weak front would bring any rain. And then, this dinosaur put one finger up on the wheel as a salutation and drove off in a dust cloud.

Five hours later, and just 180 miles distant, I bought a coffee at a Starbucks on University Avenue in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley, the spawn of Stanford University. Two young men sat at the table next to me, tight “high-water” pants rising above their ankles, coat cuffs drawn up their forearms, and shirts buttoned all the way to the top, in retro-nerd style. Their voices were nasal, their conversation rapid-fire— politics, cars, houses, vacations, fashion, and restaurants all came up. They were speaking English, but of a very different kind from the irrigator’s, accentuating a sense of being on the move and upbeat about the booming reality surrounding them.

I hadn’t just left one part of America to visit another, it seemed, but instead blasted off from one solar system to enter another cosmos, light-years distant. And to make the contrast even more radical, the man in the truck in Fresno County was Mexican-American and said that he was voting for Trump, while the two in Palo Alto were white, clearly affluent—and seemed enthused about Hillary Clinton’s sure win to come.

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Indeed, one irony of the 2016 election is that identity politics became a lethal boomerang for progressives. After years of seeing America reduced to a binary universe, with culpable white Christian males encircled by ascendant noble minorities, gays, feminists, and atheists—usually led by courageous white-male progressive crusaders—red-state America decided that two could play the identity-politics game. In 2016, rural folk did silently in the voting booth what urban America had done to them so publicly in countless sitcoms, movies, and political campaigns.

In sum, Donald Trump captured the twenty-first-century malaise of a rural America left behind by globalized coastal elites and largely ignored by the establishments of both political parties. Central to Trump’s electoral success, too, were age-old rural habits and values that tend to make the interior broadly conservative. That a New York billionaire almost alone grasped how red-state America truly thought, talked, and acted, and adjusted his message and style accordingly, will remain one of the astonishing ironies of American political history.

http://www.city-journal.org:8080/html/trump-and-american-divide-14944.html

It's a very lengthy piece, but for a lot of you, I think it is something that you need to read even though you are seething over that which you feel somehow denied you by force of number.

One of the great points is that many of the most angered are those who are insulated from the very rules and mores that they wish to impose upon those whom do not want them imposed. It is the same economically as most of those advocating globalism are the furthest from its actual effects.

The examination of the use of language by the urban designed to deceive is put into historical context and contrasted by the briefness of rural speech where life is reality; it rains or it doesn't and that is more important than the urban umbrella to their way of life. People who live in thin coastal strips, a few urban centers and the DC area take for granted their wealth while denigrating the labor of those who provide the materials and goods that allow them to maintain their lifestyle.

I think that some of you need to read this and try to put yourself into the shoes of that side of America which you no longer understand and certainly have no empathy towards.

 

[Queertag45]

Oh gee, a condescending prairee nigger post...how odd.

 

[Adre]

Telling people what "they need to do" again.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Telling people what "they need to do" again.

SSSSSSSshhhhh... be vewy vewy qwiet. Ahm huntin' wascaws...

 

[Lancecastor]

I blame Country Music.

 

[Saint Peter]

And the meth that rules AJ's beloved rural utopia.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

And here we witness the very behaviors that pushed Trump over the finish line in those BLUE WALL states that the Democrats simply ignored knowing they were going to vote for them no matter what...


There is clearly no interest here to learn, to reach out and to include.

Just double-down on arrogant ignorance.

It's working so well...


:nods:

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I blame Country Music.

Toby Keith, to be more specific...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKZqGJONH68

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Telling people what "they need to do" again.

Yeah, I'm sure Gump is truly sorry for infringing on the self-appointed job description of liberals.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yeah, I'm sure Gump is truly sorry for infringing on the self-appointed job description of liberals.

Pretty much what I though...

So, now, Ahm one of you guys?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Toby's kinda liberal and self-centered too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxUuDPNbkJk

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Victor Davis Hanson, City Journal



http://www.city-journal.org:8080/html/trump-and-american-divide-14944.html

It's a very lengthy piece, but for a lot of you, I think it is something that you need to read even though you are seething over that which you feel somehow denied you by force of number.

One of the great points is that many of the most angered are those who are insulated from the very rules and mores that they wish to impose upon those whom do not want them imposed. It is the same economically as most of those advocating globalism are the furthest from its actual effects.

The examination of the use of language by the urban designed to deceive is put into historical context and contrasted by the briefness of rural speech where life is reality; it rains or it doesn't and that is more important than the urban umbrella to their way of life. People who live in thin coastal strips, a few urban centers and the DC area take for granted their wealth while denigrating the labor of those who provide the materials and goods that allow them to maintain their lifestyle.

I think that some of you need to read this and try to put yourself into the shoes of that side of America which you no longer understand and certainly have no empathy towards.

Trump fucked the Bush NeoCon Mafia and fucked the Clinton Influence Gang. Its like Elliott Ness battling Capone and Busy Moran for Chicago. Till now all worked for one mob or the other. Theyre in panic mode.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Toby's everything wrong with America, all that patriotism crap that really shames us in the eyes of enlightened Europe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaAF_3WMJGM

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Too pro military...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNrdmjcNTc

 

[Conager]

They ran on getting the Obama voters to the polls driven by those evil racists over there -------->

If they had won they would have crowed about their moral victory over those evil racists.

Since they lost, they whine that it was because they were swamped by a rising tide of evil racists.

Never mind that they made up the narrative, dividing the country on the issue of race, strictly to herd minority voters to the polls in the numbers only seen with the novelty of a black guy at the top of the ticket. Minorities didn't vote in those numbers before he ran, they didn't vote in those numbers in the midterms, and they didn't vote in those numbers when he was no longer running. The only logical conclusion is they showed up at the polls to vote for someone strictly on skin color having absolutely nothing to do with any interest in politics or what his politics were. The very definition of racism.

 

[FeeNicks]

Yeah, I'm sure Gump is truly sorry for infringing on the self-appointed job description of liberals.

wow

Mrs Hogan kicks DreckShit in the CUNT

http://109.123.114.245/t/46/31/24/1-320x240.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Trump fucked the Bush NeoCon Mafia and fucked the Clinton Influence Gang. Its like Elliott Ness battling Capone and Busy Moran for Chicago. Till now all worked for one mob or the other. Theyre in panic mode.

What Trump did was to say, I'm not McCain, I'm not Romney, I will not accept your definitions, your paradigms and I'm not going to politely sit here and smile while you use me like a punching bag. I am not a country-club Republican...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

They ran on getting the Obama voters to the polls driven by those evil racists over there -------->

If they had won they would have crowed about their moral victory over those evil racists.

Since they lost, they whine that it was because they were swamped by a rising tide of evil racists.

Never mind that they made up the narrative, dividing the country on the issue of race, strictly to herd minority voters to the polls in the numbers only seen with the novelty of a black guy at the top of the ticket. Minorities didn't vote in those numbers before he ran, they didn't vote in those numbers in the midterms, and they didn't vote in those numbers when he was no longer running. The only logical conclusion is they showed up at the polls to vote for someone strictly on skin color having absolutely nothing to do with any interest in politics or what his politics were. The very definition of racism.

I agree with everything but the last word which should be racialism.

 

[Ishmael]

Too pro military...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNrdmjcNTc

Don't forget "Law and Order."

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Don't forget "Law and Order."

Ishmael

Good one...

Let's hope the Toby Keith boycott works for Liberals. It sure works for me...

 

[Greypowerful]

And here we witness the very behaviors that pushed Trump over the finish line in those BLUE WALL states that the Democrats simply ignored knowing they were going to vote for them no matter what...


There is clearly no interest here to learn, to reach out and to include.

Just double-down on arrogant ignorance.

It's working so well...


:nods:

I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop...

I may despise Chump, but I loved the article... regardless of any intended "spin". I happen to agree with the theses espoused, and observations made.

But then.. the FUN is about to escalate, methinks.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop...

I may despise Chump, but I loved the article... regardless of any intended "spin". I happen to agree with the theses espoused, and observations made.

But then.. the FUN is about to escalate, methinks.

Thank you for taking the time to read it.

Watch out for our midterms as I just pointed out (in another thread). The press is going to keep America pissed, hopefully at Trump and not at them, but the Urban voter base does not turn out for midterms and the Dems have to defend in places where Trump won and those who voted for him are likely still to be pissed, since as we have seen, the hatred and negativity has increased since the loss by Clinton.

One gets the impression that they have reflected and identified their mistake, they weren't nasty enough, weren't dismissive enough and did not engage in in enough ridicule. There is ample evidence of that all over Lit these past two months.

Furthermore, none of them will read anything that they think might be critical of them, their philosophy and their agenda. They just simply get nasty, dismissive and ridicule anyone who can possibly think like that.

 

[Lancecastor]

I am more interested in confirmation of whether the Bush & Clinton families were the ones who paid Christopher Steele.

I rather like the idea of a Bush-Clinton Oligarchy.


http://www.globalresearch.ca/politi...hite-house-guarantees-war-with-russia/5547656

 

[Greypowerful]

I'm continuing to cast a pox on BOTH houses.

Whilst the effete hipster types are certainly disdain-filled, the Right is just as intransigent in its hatred for anything that smacks of "socialism ".

Trump didn't win as much as Hillary and the DNC were punished.

When y'all learn the word "compromise" you just might find that things are beginning to WORK.

Only my furrin opinion, so sue me.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I didn't vote for them either.


I went with Gary BIG Johnson...


The best thing to come out of this election was how style overcomes money. The Left hated the Citizen's United ruling because it meant big corporate money was going to dominate elections from here on out. Yet the two big money raisers were dispatched by a shoe-string organization with a Twitter account.