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March of the Deplorables
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http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37650-march-of-the-deplorables
What's the explanation? Certainly, the overheated rhetoric from the candidate has something to do with it. "I'd like to punch that guy in the face;" "Knock the hell out of him;" "Bomb the shit out of them;" "Tell them to go fuck themselves" -- rally words from Trump's own mouth made famous by Clinton campaign commercials. Violent imagery is second nature to the man, and clearly there are members of his audience willing to take his lead and start punching out 69-year-old women wearing oxygen tanks....
Not since the Klan was deeply involved in American politics have violence, intimidation and blatant racism played such an obvious and overt role in a national political campaign. Trump has become the avatar of the white supremacist movement in the US, and his campaign has repaid the favor in kind; Trump's #1 surrogate, vice presidential candidate Mike Pence, still refuses to say a bad public word about avowed Klansman David Duke.
Speaking of deplorable, this anthropological phenomenon is being largely ignored by the corporate "news" media. The "news" media are doing what they always do. They find the easiest, simplest thing to cover and run it into the ground, to the neglect of far more important stories. This is part of the reason why Thursday was day five of Healthapalooza, followed by Birtherpalooza, because filling the hours with doctors diagnosing Hillary Clinton at a distance requires less rigorous journalism than exposing the root causes of why 69-year-old women are getting punched out and Black protesters are getting kicked when they're down....
The cork finally popped with the re-election of a Black president, a large segment of the GOP base rose up in befuddled revolt, and Donald Trump shot the gap. He put those people in the traces, and they are plowing his field all the way to the Great Getting' Up Day awaiting him on the first Tuesday in November. Don't fool yourself; it just might work. Trump has exposed a deep vein of true ugliness in this country. There are far more deplorables than we ever knew of.
Not since the Klan was deeply involved in American politics have violence, intimidation and blatant racism played such an obvious and overt role in a national political campaign. Trump has become the avatar of the white supremacist movement in the US, and his campaign has repaid the favor in kind; Trump's #1 surrogate, vice presidential candidate Mike Pence, still refuses to say a bad public word about avowed Klansman David Duke.
Speaking of deplorable, this anthropological phenomenon is being largely ignored by the corporate "news" media. The "news" media are doing what they always do. They find the easiest, simplest thing to cover and run it into the ground, to the neglect of far more important stories. This is part of the reason why Thursday was day five of Healthapalooza, followed by Birtherpalooza, because filling the hours with doctors diagnosing Hillary Clinton at a distance requires less rigorous journalism than exposing the root causes of why 69-year-old women are getting punched out and Black protesters are getting kicked when they're down....
The cork finally popped with the re-election of a Black president, a large segment of the GOP base rose up in befuddled revolt, and Donald Trump shot the gap. He put those people in the traces, and they are plowing his field all the way to the Great Getting' Up Day awaiting him on the first Tuesday in November. Don't fool yourself; it just might work. Trump has exposed a deep vein of true ugliness in this country. There are far more deplorables than we ever knew of.
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