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In reply to the discussion: Feinstein: "Trump is right" [View all]BainsBane
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What do I make of it? I think it points to the absence of principle, to a politics about tribalism, with power to be held only by the right sort of people with the rest targeted. That the right sort of people come from a limited demographic only exacerbates inequality. I see it as about an entitlement rooted in class, race, and gender privilege. I could go on, but I may not be answering the question you had in mind.
On the most basic level, when I see hypocrisy, I feel the need to point it out. I understand people are deeply committed to upholding those double standards; they form the basis of their entire political consciousness which is rooted in what is best for them. Not that there is anything wrong with people demanding politicians addresses their interests. It's how the system is supposed to work. What bothers me is that they pretend their cause is universal, all while deliberately excluding the voices and even the votes of the majority, as the effort to replace primaries with caucuses and thereby disfranchise the non-propertied and non-white. The hypocrisy is not just incidental. I takes on a political zeal that justifies deeply reactionary efforts aimed at the poor and marginalized. That's what bothers me. I see it as profoundly unjust, profoundly classist and exclusionary.