President Trump lied more than 3,000 times in 466 days
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That’s part of the vicarious pleasure he offers his base.
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It is about living vicariously, isn’t it? That’s where their dedication to Dear Leader really comes from. He makes them feel powerful.
We’re constantly told by many, including those on the religious right, about the mythology of the honest hardworking American blue collar Joe, a class of people where a handshake is an agreement, a person’s word is their bond.
Every movie from the beginning until what, 1990?
But in the clarity of our vantage from the Trump era, how are we supposed to square the voting preferences and vicarious aspirations of today’s white blue collar class (who seem to largely support Trump) with this mythology? Many of these people once voted Democrat.
As they cheer America flippantly and petulantly breaking all of its agreements, lying to everyone, urinating on basic human decency, and flaunting the actual law, how are we supposed to think about the white working class in 2018?
Was it always only America’s progressive white intellectuals and minorities who actually value honesty and holding to your promises? And why? Because we were forced to, and so that honesty and sense of honor became who we really are, after generations of persecution? And so we, the intellectuals who write history, made that mythology into something concrete?
Did the white working class ever really value honesty or is that change a more modern product of the Internet age, Fox News, megachurches, globalization, and Evangelism?
Was the mythology always a lie, or did it become one?
In 2018, America’s white working class are on board for the lying and the backtracking on our promises as a Western country. That must be noted by history.