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Content advisory: Fascism and genocide, both historical and what is happening in the US right now. It won't make you happy, and it's not actionable information, but it will make you better equipped to act.
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It has recently come to my attention what the MAGA right means when they decry "the elites": they mean us.
It took me a long time to sort this out because, boy, I sure don't feel like an elite. You probably don't, either. When I hear someone talking about "the elites" it sure sounds like they're talking about someone with way more status, wealth, and power than I enjoy. Or than most of you enjoy, either.
But it was a nagging thing in the back of my head that when the MAGA right uses the term to ascribe fault for what's wrong, as far as they're concerned, with this country, they didn't seem to be talking about an obvious identifiable set of people with a tremendous amount of status, wealth, or power, even though the "elites" they speak of with such venom seemed by implication to be of such great privilege. For instance, they don't seem to think their orange messiah, Trump, is one of "the elite", despite the fact that they love him for his great status, wealth, and power. They seem to celebrate titans of industry like Musk. They certainly don't have any rhetoric excoriating billionaires nor, excepting some fringe militants, dictators; they demonstrate no suspicions of those who accumulate status, wealth, and power. To the contrary, they seem to think those glorious and like glory.
So it was an unresolved problem, a loose end, in my understanding of the fascist movement in the US, just who they mean by "the elites". ( There seemed to be two possibilities... Read more [8,210 words] )
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Content advisory: Fascism and genocide, both historical and what is happening in the US right now. It won't make you happy, and it's not actionable information, but it will make you better equipped to act.
0.
It has recently come to my attention what the MAGA right means when they decry "the elites": they mean us.
It took me a long time to sort this out because, boy, I sure don't feel like an elite. You probably don't, either. When I hear someone talking about "the elites" it sure sounds like they're talking about someone with way more status, wealth, and power than I enjoy. Or than most of you enjoy, either.
But it was a nagging thing in the back of my head that when the MAGA right uses the term to ascribe fault for what's wrong, as far as they're concerned, with this country, they didn't seem to be talking about an obvious identifiable set of people with a tremendous amount of status, wealth, or power, even though the "elites" they speak of with such venom seemed by implication to be of such great privilege. For instance, they don't seem to think their orange messiah, Trump, is one of "the elite", despite the fact that they love him for his great status, wealth, and power. They seem to celebrate titans of industry like Musk. They certainly don't have any rhetoric excoriating billionaires nor, excepting some fringe militants, dictators; they demonstrate no suspicions of those who accumulate status, wealth, and power. To the contrary, they seem to think those glorious and like glory.
So it was an unresolved problem, a loose end, in my understanding of the fascist movement in the US, just who they mean by "the elites". ( There seemed to be two possibilities... Read more [8,210 words] )
This post brought to you by the 207 readers who funded my writing it – thank you all so much! You can see who they are at my Patreon page. If you're not one of them, and would be willing to chip in so I can write more things like this, please do so there.
Please leave comments on the Comment Catcher comment, instead of the main body of the post – unless you are commenting to get a copy of the post sent to you in email through the notification system, then go ahead and comment on it directly. Thanks!
