Many Elitists Are Whining about 2016 Presidential Candidate, Donald Trump — as if They Were Not the Ones whose Conniving Moral Corruption — Elevated Him to Influence

© 2016 Peter Free

 

04 March 2016

 

 

Donald Trump is not the one who pulled the flusher

 

Sure, if elected president, he could speed the United States’ swirl down History’s Drain. But he is not the one who started the turd-dispensing process.

 

Chris Hedges’ perception of the actual cause of American fascism is accurate:

 

 

College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage neoliberal [— see definition here, meaning essentially laissez faire capitalism —] assault on the working poor. Now they are being made to pay.

 

Their duplicity—embodied in politicians such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama—succeeded for decades. These elites, many from East Coast Ivy League schools, spoke the language of values—civility, inclusivity, a condemnation of overt racism and bigotry, a concern for the middle class—while thrusting a knife into the back of the underclass for their corporate masters.

 

This game has ended.

 

There are tens of millions of Americans, especially lower-class whites, rightfully enraged at what has been done to them, their families and their communities. They have risen up to reject the neoliberal policies and political correctness imposed on them by college-educated elites from both political parties: Lower-class whites are embracing an American fascism.

 

Fascism is about an inspired and seemingly strong leader who promises moral renewal, new glory and revenge.

 

The longer the elites, who oversaw this disemboweling of the country on behalf of corporations—who believe, as does CBS Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves, that however bad Trump would be for America he would at least be good for corporate profit—remain in charge, the worse it is going to get.

 

© 2016 Chris Hedges, The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism, TruthDig (02 March 2016) (extracts)

 

You can read more of Mr. Moonves’ money-is-God comment in Fortune, here.

 

 

The moral? — One evil begat another

 

The “Economic and Influence Elites” are disturbed about Mr. Trump. But only because a substantial number of previously uninfluential Americans have now found an influentially unpleasant voice.

 

From the Elites’ perspective, controlling the “underclass” may become more difficult. Which potentially means money out of the overclass’ pocket.

 

The United States decades’ long descent into plutocracy made the kind of bigoted, bellicose bubbling that we are seeing today (probably) inevitable. Whining about it now indicates that the whiners were previously asleep, too trusting, or profiting from their own oligarchical positions.

 

In truth, Mr. Trump’s supporters as morally non-inferior — to use medicine’s curiously applicable jargon — to the conniving oppressors whom they are reacting against.

 

Payback is a bitch, however you color her.