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> A take-away I had from Trump's election was that there still is a lot of economic struggle in the interior of the US. Nobody seems to be interested in improvi
by notyourday 9y ago
> A take-away I had from Trump's election was that there still is a lot of economic struggle in the interior of the US. Nobody seems to be interested in improving the situation, and very few of these communities have the means and/or the willingness to move towards greener pastures. Is there anything that can be done to improve the situation?
I work in a typical liberal as hell company in a very expensive city. The level of hate/class superiority towards the unwashed masses from my co-workers is absolutely mind blowing. It is casual hate that shows up everywhere, every day in a unrelated conversations. If one was to do s/<who they talk about>/gay|minority/g they would be terminated on the spot. It goes all the way up the corporate latter. All of them are card carrying progressives.
- azinman2 9y agoI live in SF, work in tech, and do not share this experience at all. Not sure what environment you’re in but that’s far from ubiquitous.
- notyourday 9y agoI'm going to make an educated guess that you are not even noticing it because it is that common.
- azinman2 9y agoMy office is extremely political in discussion topics. It would be noticed and not looked favorably upon.
- scarface74 9y agoI didn't realize how outright prejudice I was when it came to the stereotypical Trump true believer until after this election. It just never crossed my mind. I'm African American grew up middle class but I saw and interacted with plenty of poorer minorities but never poorer Whites - I went to a predominantly white private school, but by definition if they were at private school, they weren't poor. Went into tech and only interacted with other white collar workers. Of course I don't agree with Trumps demonization of "other" but I do see how he easily tapped into their resentment. People don't seem to realize how many Trump voters in middle America voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012.
- Y7ZCQtNo39 9y agoHillary Clinton had Donald Trump beat by millions in the popular vote. I suspected it was more or less the same conservative base, with Democratic voters less enthusiastic in rural/suburban America.
- notyourday 9y agoIn the rules of the NFL team that has the ball longest is not the team that wins the game - team that scores does. Those are the rules.
- scarface74 9y agoI'm not sure that it's a bad thing that the electoral college is used for deciding the presidential election and that the senate isn't representational of the population. Even considering that "my side" loss twice because of it. The needs of the least populous states - trump country -have been ignored in the national conversation for too long by both parties. Trump was just paying lip service to their needs and is actively selling them out. But no one else was even paying lip service. I'm not part of Trump's core demographics - both a minority and part of the "liberal tech elite" but a lot of his policies will help me a lot more than they will help people who voted for him. Yeah I'm ignoring the so called "moral majority", there is no hope for them. Hopefully changing demographics will continue to make them even less relevant.
- notyourday 9y agoIt is irrelevant if rules are bad or rules are good. It is only relevant what the rules are at the time of the competition. Rules can always be changed but it must be done before the beginning of the game.
- rhino369 9y agoI hear the same things in DC. Even (maybe especially) from people who work in government.
- uoaei 9y agoThat's not being a progressive. They can call themselves whatever they want but we don't want them.