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> Pointing out the injustice of the elite is a left-wing value Hatred of the elites has increasingly become a thing on the right over the past decade or so. It
by Kamq 4y ago
> Pointing out the injustice of the elite is a left-wing value
Hatred of the elites has increasingly become a thing on the right over the past decade or so. It seems to be increasing as corporations increasingly eschew conservative beliefs and engage in faux-progressive signaling to expand their customer base.
Edit: I should probably point out that it's not the progressive views I'm accusing of being fake. I'm accusing corporations of cynically espousing progressive views without believing in them. Mostly because everything corporate marketing departments do is fake.
- torpid 4y agoHatred of the elites is just simply populism. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are populists, two sides of the same anti establishment coin. Populist sentiment is only growing.
- sidlls 4y agoThe “elite” that the right hates are liberals and intellectuals, or whatever other object they are directing their endless two-minutes-hate at at the time. It’s not really “the elite” as understood in the context of, say, Fortunate Son.
- Kamq 4y ago> The “elite” that the right hates are liberals and intellectuals In the context of being exempt from the draft, the biggest class of relevant people would have been those attending college. I don't think you can separate these that easily. > It’s not really “the elite” as understood in the context of, say, Fortunate Son. I mean, fair, but we're in the middle of a political transition that hasn't fully played out yet. I wouldn't rely on them being as separate as they are forever. They explicitly call out senators, and I don't know a single person on the right that likes traditional politicians these days. Hell, a little over a year ago a bunch of them were willing to call for the hanging of a politician nominally on their own side. Personally, I think the days of the business wing of the republican party are numbered. So far as I can tell, we seem to be headed for a political system with a socially progressive big business-friendly party and a socially conservative party that seriously distrusts institutions, especially those from New England/the west coast (not too dissimilar from the old southern-democrats).
- soco 4y agoIs the socially conservative institutions-distrusting party doing without institutions? Or they aim to replace everything (including democracy) with their own institutions?
- Kamq 4y agoAre you looking for the ideals I think they're going to have or the likely outcome that I think it's going to result in?