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ontariodad.bsky.social • 44 days ago

Of all the things he could start with, pronouns is the thing he chooses.

Tell me again how it’s all about the economy?

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It's not *all* about the economy; but when it *is* that, it's actually always been upper-middle and higher wealth/income people who are quickest to support the far-right to protect their status from those wm less... contrary to the narrative pushed by most mainstream media in the US.

wydmindfeersart.bsky.social•44 days ago

2016: "Trump voters, like others in the GOP, have relatively high incomes..."
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps-working-class-support/

2019 "[S]upport for Trump was strongest among the locally rich — that is, white voters with incomes that are high for their area.."
https://archive.li/0wpIR

wydmindfeersart.bsky.social•44 days ago

Encyclopædia Britannica - Social bases of fascist movements: https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism/Intellectual-origins#ref219392

"The economic anxiety underlying the success of Nazism was reflected to some extent in party membership, which was drawn disproportionately from economic elites and other high-status groups..."

wydmindfeersart.bsky.social•44 days ago

“The middle classes realized that political democracy, carried to its logical conclusion, could lead to social and economic democracy, and therefore [saw] in the authoritarian regimes salvation from a social revolution of the working and peasant classes.”
https://www.ips-journal.eu/regions/global/the-myth-of-middle-class-liberalism-4033/

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