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I don't buy this theory 100% but I think Mark is on the right track: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/18/mark_blyth_global_trumpism_and_the_revol

by nas 10y ago

I don't buy this theory 100% but I think Mark is on the right track: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/18/mark_blyth_global_trumpism_and_the_revolt_against_the_creditor_class.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/18/mark_blyth... The top 1% have been extremely successful in funneling wealth to themselves. The middle and lower classes are getting pissed off. They perhaps don't know exactly how to fight back so they are just smashing shit at random.

vacri 10y ago
This is pretty much it. In the UK, despite the folks in The City funneling that wealth to themselves, the finance industry provides 35% of the British GDP. By fucking them over (whether or not they deserve it), the poor who rely on a lot of welfare have fucked themselves over in the long run. And over in the US, they've elected a man president who is so boorish that if he ever gives a speech that isn't laden with idle insults and self-aggrandisement, that pundits talk about how presidential and statesmanlike it is.