Originally Posted by
Sanlmar
You posted an interesting essay from the Spectator “From Cool to Cringe”. This had to have been written by a boomer who viewed the world post 50’s and 60’s in decline. What was declining was the middle class.
The great problem in post war America has always revolves around income distribution.
During the 90’s it got particularly bad. One way to deal with that short of improving incomes was to democratize credit. People would “feel” wealthier. People who could not get credit before now could by easily leveraging the asset that was their home. That didn’t work out. It just spawned the subprime financial problem that we spent the last 15 years attempting and failing to recover from.
The underlying problem of the financial crisis was bad income distribution.
The income distribution problem remained, of course. Steve Bannon had a rap about how to apeal to the downtrodden. We didn’t jail any bankers and virtually wrote the script for him. It worked. Trump gets elected but absolutely nothing happened except a further acceleration of wealth redistribution to the few. Bannon was bounced as his usefulness expired. The Trump deficit spending didn’t end up in the pockets of the middle class.
Fast forward a few years and now the Democrats are going to appeal to the have nots in the fashion you would expect.
There is of course, no solution to the declining middle class in America. The 50’s and 60’s were an extraordinary & unique period.
Look at the way people lived in the 20’s & 30’s. Perhaps you would like to scroll back further. Life has always been unfair for most of history. Thus political paradigms come and go as do the promises.
Do I hate Trump? Do I feel vindicated? I’m a realist. I foretold his end, yes. He had low moral character. He was unintelligent. He did not surround himself with smart advisors to bolster his shortcomings. He was dangerous. He could not cope with a crisis. You could not risk him facing another perhaps more serious challenge.
Worst of all, he had no empathy as Brad Parscale pointed out. This, Parscale claimed, was the minimum required to win a landslide victory. I agree. You dismissively chimed in that Parscale was a “serial scammer”. Trump was not? Parscale was gifted in many regards and frankly is more responsible for Trump winning on the night of Nov 3rd 2016 than any other human.
Trump was proven to be a dope who developed coping mechanisms like narcissism and cared not for country or even his party.
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