Class Inequality Populism

Because people are tired of the 'everything is about wealth disparity' claptrap?

You probably know very well what I am speaking about, and your attitude is a example of how we are losing the vast masses for non-democratic projects that will end up being worse for them than for us.We should get rid of our condescending attitudes and really try to see things from other's perspective. And on the other side, unless I am talking to an anonymous Peter Thiel, Musk ou Zuckerberg, it is not like we are truly part of the same elite the downtroden see with some much contempt.

That belief is actually really common in the US. Particularly among the upper middle class (the top 10%, and 90% of HN readers) to convince themselves that when they disagree with people in the working class, who outnumber them by far, that it's really not them vs the majority, but rather them vs a few evil billionaire puppet masters. And of course the only way to fight these evil billionaires (on behalf of the poor, of course. lol!) and their prole slave army is through censorship (censor

Came here to say the same thing. Progessivism, wokeism, etc are being hit by a propaganda campaign by the uber rich. Because they can't profit from the healthy public policies that people like me grew up under in the 80s and 90s. Before they got systematically undermined and replaced with whatever all this is.If any young people out there are reading this and scratching their heads, let me offer a small piece of advice: if someone's argument hinges on generalizations against a group

I don't disagree with, say, reversing Citizens United but really what you list here is a bunch of symptoms.> Why is this not happening?Because Americans, as a whole, have zero class consciousness, thanks the hyper-individualism of liberalism and possibly the most successful propaganda campaign in history ie the Red Scare.We have people who unironically will champion for the likes of Jeff Bezos to pay less in taxes and will identify more with Bezos than their fellow worker.The

As long as the majority of people in America view politics through a left / right lens we’re not gonna get anywhere. Elites introducing fragmentation in society is a tried and true tactic to allow them to continue to abuse the populace. You think billionaires actually care about political parties? Look how fast Bill Ackman etc switched after October 7th.Nations have solved the “parasitic elite” problem in the past, but those nations are painted as evil nowadays.

They are coming because the bubble that exists around our politicians and the fawning rich upper class and idiot lower class (democrat or republican) is to put it simply, bursting.People are getting fed up with the ideologue denigrating wealth and success and hard work, then he goes to the rich elite of the elite in silicon valley with his hand out like a common beggar.Hypocrites.

You're doing that common conservative thing of correctly identifying the principle, but then taking a turn into ridiculousness when enumerating examples. We are, in fact, in this mess because of the upper middle/professional class. It's not because of green regulations or DEI. It's because that class has a vested interest in enabling the aforementioned billionaire charlatans and their flights of fancy/fear, no matter wht those might be. Literally, if we're talking a

Is this left versus right? Or megacorps and elite donor class versus everyone else? I think this is mostly a story of someone committing genocide level injustices through their job as CEO, which virtually the entirety of the left right spectrum dislikes. Except the hyper rich or politically powerful. Not surprising to see VCs decrying the attack on podcasts and their LinkedIn profiles while saying absolutely nothing about the much larger crimes of the United Health group.

If it comes to armed conflict among the general population those fiat dollars vanish, past contracts are void.I think you grossly overestimate the number of people who actually value the existence of Bezos and Musk types. Most among the right and left voters see them as lazy non-contributors, propped up by political corruption.The right feels serving a king under a different name is wrong. The left finds it anti-scientific and conservative to preserve the rich given their wealth is heavily