White Trash: The 400 Year History of Class in America
This presentation is particularly important to watch and review before what will happen tomorrow in Washington, DC on Monday with the inauguration of the populist President Donald Trump, champion of the anti-elitist MAGA movement. Trump achieved an unprecedented, presidential mandate with his monumental victories in both the popular and Electoral College voting.
The presentation is a summary statement on how traditionally the elites have viewed the non-elites throughout American history.
The great disparity in America lies between the professional managerial elites in government, academia, media, and business versus the middle/working classes in their fundamental attitudes, values, lifestyle choices and associations, and how they see themselves and the world about them.
Since the beginning of the Progressive Era (1900-1920) the dominant ideology or world view of the professional managerial class of court intellectuals, opinion leaders and editorial directors of the elite mainstream legacy regime media, bureaucratic functionaries and staff of the administrative state, the federal judiciary, members of Congress, and those persons who comprise the top echelon of the military industrial/security complex and the deep state, has been a synthesis of what has been described as corporate liberalism or proponents of the welfare-warfare state.
The Progressive Era saw the birth of the cult of efficiency, with the new administrative state’s apolitical credentialed experts gingerly guiding public-policy instead of the archaic rule of political bosses and their ethnic urban political machines. Or, at least that was what was supposed to happen according to Progressives such as Herbert Croly, Walter Lippmann, Robert LaFollette, Jane Addams, Richard Ely, Lincoln Steffens, Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson.
Their Progressive progeny such as Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton still employ demeaning, mean-spirited vituperative terminology in this class war against their non-elite opponents – “garbage,” “deplorables,” or as Obama summarized it:
You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
The insightful attorney and political analyst Robert Barnes in a celebrated “daily brief” at VivaBarnesLaw.Locals.com brilliantly e
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