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THE ROOTS OF TRUMP AND SANDERS POPULARITY: THE RETURN OF CLASS WARFARE


For those who were Marxist in 1970/80s, the collapse of the Soviet Union virtually meant the beginning of the extinction for that mode of analysis. Even though China, North Korea, Cuba and a few socialists system still existed but they could not signpost the ideological divide between East and West. However, today the class struggle that Karl Marx predicted is gradually resonating in national politics across the globe.  

In our present world, class and classism has different connotation, although analogous to Marx’s definition. "Classism is the systemic assignment of characteristics of worth based on social class. It includes individual attitudes and behaviors; systems of policies and practices set up to benefit the upper classes at the expense of the lower classes, resulting in drastic income and wealth inequality; and the rationale and the culture that perpetuates these systems and unequal valuing.

Classism is differential treatment based on social class or perceived social class. Classism is the systemic oppression and subjugation of the subordinated groups, that is, people without endowed or acquired economic power, social influence or privilege – by the dominant groups, that is, those who have access to control of the necessary resources by which other people make their living. Classism is the systemic oppression of subordinated class groups to advantage and strengthen the dominant class groups. Classism is held in place by a system of beliefs and cultural attitudes that ranks people according to economic status, family lineage, job status, level of education and so on.

The ruling class and their minions in the media, government and social control apparatus are extremely distressed and apoplectic about the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders on the political scene. These two are exposing the endemic graft, corruption and inequality in the American system despite the 1%'s best efforts to mock and marginalize them, discount them and use dirty tricks to get them out of their respective races for their party's nomination. Thus far they have not been able to dissuade the rabble (that's what they call common folks) from joining the growing resistance against the status quo.

Now the ruling oligarchs are getting really desperate, they sense a genuine uneasiness and angst amongst the masses and they fear they will not be able to keep the common folks in check much longer. However, the ruling oligarchs will do anything in their power using their vast resources to derail or co-opt any grass roots opposition to the political duopoly of the Democrat and Republican con game.

In the past anyone who dared to openly speak about class warfare was demonized and could eventually be eliminated. Remember how Obama bum rushed the Occupy Wall Street movement all over the country in 2012? North Carolina Senator John Edwards was run out of the 2008 presidential race because he was talking about income inequality and classism. The ruling class used their corporate media to expose his extramarital affair to turn public opinion against him. They did the same thing to Elliot Spitzer the former New York Governor when he started talking about the Wall Street shenanigans and going after the big wigs. They used the fact he was frequenting a high class brothel to turn public opinion against him and force him to resign.

Going back further the ruling class murdered Robert Kennedy and had former Alabama Governor George Wallace shot to get them out of the 1968 presidential race because they were challenging the establishment's agenda. Earlier they murdered Martin Luther King Jr. because he was talking about income and wealth inequality defying the system, calling for an end to the war in Southeast Asia, radical changes at home and income redistribution! The ruling class in America is psychopathic, ruthless, and cold blooded. They think nothing of assassinating people to maintain the status quo and keep their power and control in check.

The Republican Party a white bread political party known for its exclusion, snobbishness and racism has the audacity to vilify Donald Trump and call him xenophobic and racist. That's like the kettle calling the pot black!

The Republicans are desperate to stop Donald Trump who they regard as an outsider even though he is part of the 1% crowd.  Trump uses his own money so he is neutralizing their rules, he can't be bribed or bought off and his life is an open book so they can't white-mail him with anything. The ruling class is so desperate.  They have enlisted their good ol boy buddy George Soros to manipulate MoveOn.org, Black Lives Matter, two of the organizations he directly funds and some other dissidents he pays to disrupt Trump's campaign rallies so the media can blame Trump for the ruckus! For added measure they are now sending threatening letters to his sister who is a Federal appellate judge and his daughter. That is some low life stuff.

The rabble is waking up to the disdain and contempt the super-rich and their governmental pawns hold for them. The Sanders and Trump candidacies are feeding on the angst and anger of the people. Sanders is capitalizing on the idealism of young people, mostly college students who don't trust the system, who find themselves in humongous debt, unable to find good jobs and many are living at home with their parents, because they can't afford to venture out on their own.

Both Sanders and Trump are pointing fingers at the system, at the status quo and are calling for the very thing the ruling elites fear most, real change.

What is happening in the United States indicates that in our world today, politics requires a masterful combination of new media, door-to-door and community grass roots campaigning with a clever tactical use of traditional TV advertising.

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