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You present a lot of opinions but not really anything to back them up. Furthermore, this is incredibly US-centric in a way that's just not relatable at all if y

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• redis_mlc 6y ago
  I don't see how there can be any confusion over which country I was talking about, since Trump is the current US President. "Deplorables" is a pejorative term used in US politics by the Democratic party to describe what HNers call "flyover country," or the country's interior. Hillary Clinton basically lost the 2016 Presidential election by using that term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_of_deplorables https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_of_deplorables For those unfamiliar with US politics, the Democratic party is the one that's supposed to represent that class of citizens. Instead, it's run by near-octogenarian elites who have disdain for anybody in their former political base who can't write a campaign check. American elites and oligarchs sold out the US poor and middle class with illegal immigration and Chinese outsourcing to reduce labor costs. Of course, that meant impoverishing the lower rungs of society, resulting in the meth and oxy epidemics, and those classes voted in Trump. If you're a US citizen and any of the above is unfamiliar to you, then you should be more engaged. Those are the seeds of the BLM and antifa protests, and the arson of our city cores is only an outward sign of the rot in American society. The fact that the Republican Party is headed by a Trumpist, and the Democratic Party by somebody recognized as too senile to participate in a debate, sounds like ancient Roman times, but here we are.