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The Year Of The Abject: Making Sense of Nonsense
The emergence of 21st century Right-wing populism represents the biggest innovation on that terrain.
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This is a fascinating read.
I attempted to put some numbers to this subset of white Americans- and the size of the group is not inconsequential.
As a very, very, very rough estimate- I took the number of people identifying as white in the 2020 census (205M) and used percentage of white Americans reported as “lower class income” reported by the Rand Corporation in May, 2021 (35%).
This math indicates 72M.
Great read. It helps to crystalize what we have all been seeing.
The absurd has become acceptable, because rage does not require reason.
Irrationality is a feature and not a bug.
It is not just on social media or the political stage where you see all this playing out. You can also see it in the stock market. GME is a pretty good example.
There is no way the earnings of that company can justify its price. But it is not about earnings. It is about apes declaring that their chosen one shall have value.