Flowers For Socrates

By ann summers

We now know how the ruling class will rule: on the backs of middle-class folks and delivered like any media ratings audience where the Brexit-style message resonated to an ideologically stable population sub-group that had been data-mined because of a Black POTUS.

Essentially it was the same ‘bagger-class, alienated yet economically stagnant, easily filled with the TV remote’s channel favorites limited to seeing diversity at a remove easily Othered. These people were sufficiently angered by the differences drawn since the Clinton 42 administration. Darn that hip-hop music from the “inner cities” and darn their welfare “socialism”.

This group was actually the same GOP base from other elections, just that the product differentiation was better constructed in 2016. Profane male TV gasbag seems so much more appealing to that base than lifelong feminist policy wonk.

Trumpian politics will be conducted like the Apprentice: Autocrat edition. Crypto-fascist Ethno-nationalist Steve Bannon’s “restoration” is more of a Meiji Restoration although modernization has little to do with 2016’s power shift to an imperious POTUS and it’s a capitalism often fantasized but never realized. Continue reading →