Understanding
the rise of Trump is about mathematics.
This article outlines the disaffection of poor rural white America
rallying around a loudmouthed asshole like a brick through a window. Those are outcomes to an engineered American
aversion to mathematics, intellectualism, and investigation into systematic
correlations. Neoliberalism is subject
to the mathematics of space on the planet, resources for habitat and survival
of an extrapolating human population where capitalist firms consolidate power
into under-regulated gargantuan global behemoths who control governments, squash
competition, answer only to money, and market the public to vote and choose
paths against the interest of the masses.
The
reason the factory shut down, Bobby died in Iraq, the shrimp are mucked in oil,
minimum wage is not a living wage, American healthcare is the most economically
inefficient on the planet, educators are undermined, the drug war creates
neo-plantations in the prison industrial complex, Christian fundamentalism acts
like a form of American Taliban against women’s health, social assistance,
sexuality, addressing climate change, and evolution is very much related to how
a man like Trump brags about not paying taxes and people applaud him as an
outsider coming out and saying it. Trump
supports know something is wrong, but failed math class like almost every voter
in America voting for every major presidential candidate Democrat or Republican
since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Under
Eisenhower after Truman, Christianity was merged with capitalism in the
1950’s. Richard Nixon was vice
president. Billy Graham was
pivotal. The path of business interests,
military dominance, and the pulpit was a trinity of marketing to take the
technological advances of the post WWII era and create profit machines where
the mathematics led to prosperity based on demand, available resources,
population, and an American empire in a position of strength over a war-ravaged
Europe and Southeast Asia using the Soviet Union as a counterweight. In the modern era the factories that built
that empire seek lowest common denominator global labor outside the United
States and a man like Trump says he will fix everything after benefiting from
the system his entire life. Trump was
born in 1946. To think Trump will make
America great again requires cognitive dissonance of what a white Christian heterosexual
cisgender male American 1950’s was. Add
wealth from the cradle and you have Trump.
Trade
agreements, anti-labor union, socialism equals atheism equals un-America dogma,
the myth of white supremacy who cares about poor brown civilians in foreign
counties subject to American bombs or energy or drug policies, repression of
what slavery and indigenous American genocide were, who cares about where what
is on the shelf at Walmart comes from or who was involved in its production or
if they earn a living wage or its environmental impact, who notices the revenue
missing from the tax coffers to pay the teacher, police officer, or doctor
because of a tax deduction for a wealthy individual or firm, who cares about a
worker’s lower wage because management and stockholders are keeping the
difference and forcing taxpayers to supplement living wages because who wants
to do the math?
Clinton,
her husband, and Obama are neoliberals as well.
Yes, there is less racism, sexism, homophobia, better tax policy, but at
the end of the day the record shows when in office: pro trade deals, big
military, still bombing, deporting, the health industry is still Wall Street
driven, and identity politics, platitudes, and patronage abound. The roots of what America is are founded in
genocide, economic exploitation, and marketing.
We vote for this. The Democrats
are a domestic counterweight to the Republicans like the Soviets in the cold
war. Nationalism, partisanship, and any
group think is a lie. There are only
humans and our volition in a passive democracy planted and let rot through
apathy. Democracy is organic and a shift
towards Democratic socialist policies represented in the Sanders campaign
resonated with so many Americans and was sabotaged by the Democratic Party in
part because of the neoliberal root in the one-party system America has
chosen. The better path is to change the
parties and that is what Trump and Sanders are.
Just
like the Roman empire before it the mathematics reach a breaking point. That is where we are because the Earth is
only is so big, to fit so many people, with so many natural resources in
reserve to deplete at such rates for so long before there is no water in the
lake to drink. This is our species. If you think this election is just about
Trump you really don’t understand why he is so popular.
If
you think Democratic socialist ideas like a global tax on capital, universal
healthcare, addressing systematic racism in the prison industrial complex,
decreasing the resources invested in the military industrial complex, ending
the drug war on sun-based drugs to treat addiction as a medical problem,
implementing parental leave, gender wage equity, human rights activism,
changing monetary policy to decrease the power of the Federal Reserve and Wall
Street, changing the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy
towards sustainability of humanity on Earth before corporate profits are unaffordable
pipedream into the modern culture of debt then you have to do the math to
understand where the money is and how it got there. When you do that you will see Neoliberal
policies at the throne.
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