You must try to see the wisdom of the crowd
5 rules: How to write about Trump, his supporters and nationalists
1. Never use words like racists and bigots to describe racists and bigots. When people vote in overwhelming numbers to keep “Polish vermin” out of the United Kingdom or “Mexican rapists” and “Muslim terrorists” out of the United States, you must try to see the wisdom of the crowd. That is the beauty of democracy. If you deviate from this rule, some people will get really offended.
2. Refer to the abandoned white working class. Do not look at exit poll data that would show the working class in the United States actually voted for HRC and most of the Trump voters are actually among the richest people on this planet. Talk about how the white people are the real victims of a system that survives on blood and toil of black and brown labour.
3. Propose that we listen to the concerns of angry white men wearing red caps — the kind shouting “Kill Obama!” and “lock her up!” during the pussy-grabber-in-chief’s victory speech. Psychoanalyse them as much as you can. For this analysis, you can rely on hundreds of newspaper profiles and interviews of such men. However, always remember to propose that the media has failed to grant enough attention to the said demographic.
4. Blame the elite; mention the crisis of inequality; and, note the role of capitalism. What we are looking at is actually a revolution of sorts — the masses had enough with the elite, capitalist bastards, and now they have elected Donald J Trump as their president.
5. Always remember: Most of the nationalists are decent people with decent concerns about foreigners, people with different skin colours and religions. This, as opposed to the feminist, LGBT-loving, refugee-hugging, weed-smoking liberal elite tree-huggers “who just don’t get it!”
He’s so right. There is so much bullshit of that kind flying around and it’s all so wrong.
I especially detest #1. Yeah it’s not “elitist” to say that people who shout and wear and wave racists slogans are being racist. It’s not “elitist” to say that bragging about grabbing women by the pussy is misogynist and rapey. It’s not “elitist” to say that a guy who has cheated his workers is not a friend of the working class.
Yeah – I’m sick of it’s all the liberals/SJWs’/endorsing celebrities’ fault. I get pissed off with plenty of SJW rhetoric and endorsing celebrities but voting for Trump to spite them, or Beyoncé, or an endorsing celebrity is idiotic. If you’re voting against your own interests to spite someone else you’re a fool. So you’re either a fool or spiteful or both if you vote for Trump. & if you say x million Americans aren’t fools or spiteful – probably not in their ordinary lives, with their families, in their jobs, at their church or in other walks of life. But in this instance they are.
Yesterday I woke up to the news that Trump was (almost certainly) going to be the most powerful person in the world, and for the first time since I began in my current job, nearly tree years ago, I seriously considered calling in sick. I didn’t, but if I had, I would have been spared an awful lot of all the above. Here’s an article that one colleague found quite enlightening and convincing:
“Donald Trump is moving to the White House, and liberals put him there”
The main lesson I take away from the last two days, however, is that what has happened is hilariously funny and humorous, and will be a source of endless entertainment value in the years to come. Maybe I should call in sick tomorrow. Cause I sure as hell am not laughing..
So very unfunny.