"It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking"
- Stephen Hawking, taken from Pink Floyd's 'Keep Talking'
Interesting read here:
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking"
- Stephen Hawking, taken from Pink Floyd's 'Keep Talking'
Interesting read here:
http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/art...-s-11160689.php?t=1600570cd0&cmpid=fb-premiumAs Hochschild notes in her book, writers on the left like Thomas Frank (“What’s the Matter with Kansas?”) have long struggled to understand why conservatives like those she interviewed embrace political candidates and views that contradict their own economic self-interest. After all, Trump’s proposed tax cuts and health care plan will only do further harm to oil workers and their families in the Louisiana bayou. But Hochschild’s central insight is that, like all of us, Trump voters are motivated by “a deep story” — an unconscious force that defies political logic. Our deep story “removes judgment. It removes fact. It tells us how things feel.”
For Trump’s white Southern voters, this deep story is about betrayal by the country’s elites. They envision themselves standing patiently in line, waiting for their share of the American dream, only to see others — blacks, ambitious women, immigrants — cut in front of them. “They feel sold out by those in charge — the so-called grown-ups.” The Washington establishment and the liberal media play favorites, rewarding their own — while the “rednecks” of Louisiana get screwed.