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In reply to the discussion: Do you REALLY want to understand Trumpers and white working-class voters? Please read this. Please. [View all]DemocratSinceBirth
(99,729 posts)42. According to Thompson these people would kill you or give you a serious beating if they could.
At the end of Hells Angels, having spent months with the motorcycle guys, Thompson finally gets stomped by them. For some offense he doesnt understand (and which he probably didnt commit), Thompson gets punched, bloodied, kicked in the face and in the ribs, spat at and pissed on. He limps off to a hospital in the dead of night, alone and afraid. Only in that moment does Thompson realize that as a journalist (and therefore a member of the elite), he could not possibly be a true friend of the Angels. Wear leather and ride a motorcycle though he might, Thompson stood on the side of intellectual and cultural authority. And that finally made him, despite his months of good-timing with the Angels, subject to their retaliatory impulses. The ethic of retaliation is total, Thompson comes to realize. There is nothing partial about it. It ends with violence.
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Let us take Thompsons cautions seriously, then, so that this time we Berkeley types are not naive about what we face. Otherwise, were all liable to get stomped.
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Let us take Thompsons cautions seriously, then, so that this time we Berkeley types are not naive about what we face. Otherwise, were all liable to get stomped.
I am under no illusion that the Deplorables wouldn't do us physical harm, if they could.
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Do you REALLY want to understand Trumpers and white working-class voters? Please read this. Please. [View all]
DetlefK
Dec 2016
OP
And yet: if not for millions of votes lost to voter suppression, the Russians interference,
pnwmom
Dec 2016
#1
Fixing voter suppression, jailing James Comey and fixing hacking is harder work than believing
uponit7771
Dec 2016
#59
He might have gotten a kick out of the conspiracy theory Bush had him killed though.
KittyWampus
Dec 2016
#51
Right. They'll keep voting for trump, especially if the repugs finally approve . . .
brush
Dec 2016
#41
I don't think that's a valid conclusion. I agree they're bullies. But it seems to me the conclusion
KittyWampus
Dec 2016
#54
Votech has been gutted in this country so people have no idea the trades can be so lucrative
forjusticethunders
Dec 2016
#33
WHO .... doesn't 'need' that degree?! You see the UE rate for non degree PoC? Come on people
uponit7771
Dec 2016
#62
By all means, let's try to connect with the "Them Ivry Leaguers can't tell me whot to do" population
NBachers
Dec 2016
#39
According to Thompson these people would kill you or give you a serious beating if they could.
DemocratSinceBirth
Dec 2016
#42
Get them back? The Deplorables can sit and spin on the cosmic utensil until they rot, TYVM.
Maru Kitteh
Dec 2016
#65
These are racist criminals. Men who choose to live "outside the law" and fund their existence
jalan48
Dec 2016
#46
+1, "Still, they are fairly well off and white and in rural Arizona. " this is what's not making ...
uponit7771
Dec 2016
#63
Shitler isn't offending elites, he's attacking those people who voted for him with his actions.
onecaliberal
Dec 2016
#52
+1, I'm really sick of hearing how non PoC in America have it bad... fuck, we have it worse always
uponit7771
Dec 2016
#64
That's because during the 50's, 60's, and 70's, that class was the majority voters.
haele
Dec 2016
#70
The so-called "Silent Majority" that I saw carry signs at Trump rallys were never silent
Boomerproud
Dec 2016
#91