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Showing Original Post only (View all)Donald Trump Is Winning Because White America Is Dying [View all]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-noam-chomsky-white-mortality_us_56cf8618e4b0bf0dab31838fNoam Chomsky, the renowned scholar and MIT professor emeritus, says that the rise of Donald Trump in American politics is, in part, fueled by deeply rooted fear and hopelessness that may be caused by an alarming spike in mortality rates for a generation of poorly educated whites.
Hes evidently appealing to deep feelings of anger, fear, frustration, hopelessness, probably among sectors like those that are seeing an increase in mortality, something unheard of apart from war and catastrophe," Chomsky told The Huffington Post in an interview on Thursday.
Trump's rise as the Republican presidential front-runner has been confounding for Americans across the political spectrum. The bombastic, billionaire demagogue has won three of the first four primary states and holds a lead in the polls, both nationwide and in upcoming primary contests. He now appears poised to take an insurmountable delegate lead over the next several weeks, based on a platform of hate and vitriol targeted at women, Latinos, Muslims and other minorities.
A legion of less educated, working-class white men has fueled Trumps rise. And while many say the business mogul is capitalizing on their fears about the perceived decline of white dominance in America, Chomsky says there may also be more existential forces at play.
Hes evidently appealing to deep feelings of anger, fear, frustration, hopelessness, probably among sectors like those that are seeing an increase in mortality, something unheard of apart from war and catastrophe," Chomsky told The Huffington Post in an interview on Thursday.
Trump's rise as the Republican presidential front-runner has been confounding for Americans across the political spectrum. The bombastic, billionaire demagogue has won three of the first four primary states and holds a lead in the polls, both nationwide and in upcoming primary contests. He now appears poised to take an insurmountable delegate lead over the next several weeks, based on a platform of hate and vitriol targeted at women, Latinos, Muslims and other minorities.
A legion of less educated, working-class white men has fueled Trumps rise. And while many say the business mogul is capitalizing on their fears about the perceived decline of white dominance in America, Chomsky says there may also be more existential forces at play.
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Both sides? The revolution on the right is America isnt racist enough, is what it seems to me.
Jackie Wilson Said
Feb 2016
#26
Why don't you blame corporate moguls and their stockholders? The stockholder have the real
Jitter65
Feb 2016
#14
I have been reading that Democrats in that same demographic (white working class males)
Lodestar
Feb 2016
#30
So this is the RW 'immigrants are welfare moochers' argument. What about the 'immigrants are job-
pampango
Feb 2016
#21
Where at your link does it say anything about welfare benefits for immigrants? n/t
pampango
Feb 2016
#22
I was responding to an assertion regarding the "restricting" of welfare spending.
ALago1
Feb 2016
#23
The 'study' from the RW CIS also says immigrants work more and receive less welfare in the long run
pampango
Feb 2016
#24
As a sarcastic summary of republican rhetoric on immigration, this is a great post.
pampango
Feb 2016
#15
It's gonna be raining sensible tan slacks and mayonaisse-laden potato salad!
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2016
#34