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Kanye West is in the news again, this time for anti-Semitism and "White Lives Matter" T-shirts. But my question is: is getting worked up over Kanye's antics productive? It's pretty clear that what Kanye wants is a reaction, a "cancelation", if you will. This is exactly how Trump got into the White House. He said outrageous things, the liberal media got outraged, and middle Americans thought maybe there was something to what Trump was saying. Why let this cycle repeat over and over when it's so predictable?
The fact is, many Americans, especially working class Americans, know something is wrong, that the "American dream" isn't working, that life is just getting worse for many of us. Yet the two options they are provided with are "the status quo/nothing fundamental will change", represented by the Democrats and never-Trump Republicans and the reactionary right, which is correct in identifying that there's a problem, but incorrect in blaming it all on immigrants/Jews/LGBT, whatever. (This doesn't just happen in the U.S., of course, and isn't just happening now.)
But who do you think people are going to gravitate towards? When presented with keeping things as they are or returning to a past golden age, what do you think people will choose? The ones who say "I hear you, something's wrong, and we're going to fix it". Complacent liberals always browbeat and say "how could these dumb rubes fall for Trump and his racist bullshit?" but they go for it because there's no viable alternative. This is the problem with having no real leftist party in this country. All we get is moderate/more-of-the-same or right-wing media-savvy nutjobs like Kanye and Trump. I'm not saying Kanye will be president, but this is the kind of thing that mainstream media pushback only encourages.
The fact is, many Americans, especially working class Americans, know something is wrong, that the "American dream" isn't working, that life is just getting worse for many of us. Yet the two options they are provided with are "the status quo/nothing fundamental will change", represented by the Democrats and never-Trump Republicans and the reactionary right, which is correct in identifying that there's a problem, but incorrect in blaming it all on immigrants/Jews/LGBT, whatever. (This doesn't just happen in the U.S., of course, and isn't just happening now.)
But who do you think people are going to gravitate towards? When presented with keeping things as they are or returning to a past golden age, what do you think people will choose? The ones who say "I hear you, something's wrong, and we're going to fix it". Complacent liberals always browbeat and say "how could these dumb rubes fall for Trump and his racist bullshit?" but they go for it because there's no viable alternative. This is the problem with having no real leftist party in this country. All we get is moderate/more-of-the-same or right-wing media-savvy nutjobs like Kanye and Trump. I'm not saying Kanye will be president, but this is the kind of thing that mainstream media pushback only encourages.
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