Not people who read Horatio Alger, people who Horatio Alger stories were about.

Working class meaning people who work hourly/salary, as opposed to petite bourgeoisie, meaning the self-employed & small business owners.

Hitting on the same person.

You just described the exact same people the article described, so I don’t know where you’re getting “really affluent corporate types” from.

Trump’s real power base has never been the white working class “basket of deplorables”:

The Nation, 2017: Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs

But scapegoating poor whites keeps the conversation away from fascism’s real base: the petite bourgeoisie. This is a piece of jargon used mostly by Marxists to denote small-property owners, whose nearest equivalents these days may be the “upper middle class” or “small-business owners.” FiveThirtyEight reported last May that “the median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000,” or roughly 130 percent of the national median. Trump’s real base, the actual backbone of fascism, isn’t poor and working-class voters, but middle-class and affluent whites. Often self-employed, possessed of a retirement account and a home as a nest egg, this is the stratum taken in by Horatio Alger stories. They can envision playing the market well enough to become the next Trump. They haven’t won “big-league,” but they’ve won enough to be invested in the hierarchy they aspire to climb. If only America were made great again, they could become the haute 
bourgeoisie—the storied “1 percent.”


Libs need to understand that calling out the hypocrisies of Trump supporters does fuck-all. Not only do they do not care, they get off on triggering the libs in this way. They’re not the least bit interested in facts or consistency; they’re interested in getting their guy in office.

I’ve never seen so many downvotes Parasociality is a fuck.

There has been one mod action so far today and three others in the last week.

We need this imperial order to protect us from imaginary imperial orders.

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FYI “temporarily embarrassed”: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/temporarily_embarrassed_millionaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_LvRPX0rGY

There’s apparently at least one temporarily embarrassed billionaire who disagrees.

I just gave the the Wiki link to it. There is a left-liberalism, it’s just that left-liberalism is not actually left: it’s liberalism. It’s Bernie Sanders liberalism. It’s Keynesian economics, social safety net liberalism. And you are correct, it is establishment. It keeps private ownership of the means of production intact.