Nowhere Girl
"The result of having killed off the Left in the US is that the word populism now exclusively refers to the bad kind, the kind where the literal richest man on earth can point to an unemployed trans woman and call her an elite."
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Nowhere Girl
Left-wing populism has been demonized in this country precisely because it often manifests as Black socialism and poor people's movements, even when those movements exist purely as survival strategies against the racist capitalist system. They correctly identified who the elite in this society are. That's why they got shot.
Nowhere Girl
A lot of liberals reflexively reject the word "elite" because right-wingers often use it with racist and antisemitic intent. But there are obviously elites. A handful of billionaires have enormous influence over our lives. Policy and campaign decisions are made by wealthy donors and party apparatchiks.
But they're not elites because they're white men? Is that the takeaway here?
Or is it that these elites know they're elites and hold the line against the rest of us?
Nowhere Girl
American liberalism turned its back on "radicalism" when it decided to become a secondary mouthpiece for racial capital and it has become increasingly detached from the lived realities of those it claims to represent.
Nowhere Girl
Democrats are a party of rich white people just like Republicans are. They merely pay lip service to those beneath them while treating them with scorn and contempt. They have adopted social justice rhetoric as a way to deflect blame from their own behavior. The Biden era appeals to FDR include a knowing wink to how racist he and the New Deal actually were.
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