Redneck, Blue collar
Once again America's "system" of class definition is exposed and found wanting. What kind of system, after all, can make sense of working class, middle class, ruling class, employing class, upper class, under class, owning class, coordinator class? When the punditocracy trots out the meme that Hillary owns the "white, blue collar, working class" everyone nods their head knowingly, but such terminology is of course, meaningless.(This is the medias role, to reinforce meaninglessness)
We could use our idiot/savant President's "system", that is, anyone embarrassed to be seen by a recently widowed soldiers wife while playing golf is working class. In this cultural analysis, Golf is really the best determinant, far better than Jeff Foxworthy jokes or shirt color. Using this system we can discard Hillaries absurd claim to a constituency based on the sweated armpits of those shirts and see it for what it really is, one based on IQ and bigotry. Watch her numbers swell as we head down towards Bergoo, W. Virginia and now check their garages for golf clubs. Between puffs on their Vantage cigarrettes they might explain their electoral rationale of just being tired of all these Husseins! Or why they have two first names. (Jim-Bob?) Harsh, I know, but I have lived among these people, their churches, confederate flags, Crispy Cremes and shitty beer. A public that cannot articulate their frustration cannot engage in a democracy and the total sham should be brought out into the light of day rather than taken to some Biblical Theme Park with dinosaurs and Adam and Eve.
I also was fascinated with Bush's populist stance against subsidies for "wealthy farmers" contained in the latest Farm Bill. As he appeases the Jews (each out-going US President must perform this ritual) and pleads with the Arabs ( a new ritual), rebels against his elite handlers and is found more and more disgusting by the masses, he demonstrates perfectly the problems anti-intellectualism has created for itself. It is a morass for which redneck language, historiography, philosophy, even humor, is ill suited.
posted by troutsky @ 6:02 AM
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18 Comments:
Troutsky
In your case the term Redneck would be a form of flatery. Your elitist arrogance and seething bigotry seep
through this post. Has the thought passed through that empty mind that the President and most Americans support Israel?
The low IQ Troutsky equates support for Israel as "selling out to the Jews". This is narrow minded bigotry on his part.
There is a new type of redneck. This type of redneck is found in cities and university gulags. It is more bigoted and arrogant than Archie Bunker ever was.
You clowns are more Jooo obsessed than your Nazi allies.
I feel a great deal of compassion for hicks and rednecks. Everywhere they look they are encouraged by Beakerkins, Rush, Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, George W., Paul Harvey, Glen Beck, Laura Ingram, their bosses, NASCAR, Sean Hannity, and the Company to stay uninformed, racist, intolerant, close-minded, anti-intellectual, and poor!
Rush Limbaugh is a racist, sexist, xenophobic, jingoistic pig! He has no excuse. What's sick is that he was ever given a microphone to build an army of drones that repeat his hate. And who benefits from this ignorant mass? The "ruling class."
Rush and Larry the Cable Guy have helped to build the redneck nation. They celebrate intolerance. Make your starting point a child and recognize that raised by rednecks in a redneck nation that child's chances of making it to adulthood with any other attitude but that of their parents and Sean Hannity are exceedingly low!
Of course, ever since the start of the neoliberal age, when U.S. economic policy started shipping off-shore the high-paying manufacturing jobs of the blue-collar white population it's easier to appreciate their anger. Enter stage-"right" Rush, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck to explain to them who their "real" enemies are.
Only adding to their frustration and anger was the visibly more successful petite-intellectuals that were landing high-paying high-tech and software jobs. Suddenly, a formerly high-paid union worker loses his/her social standing, power, pay and is declassed to live alongside the immigrant-class, while college punks are building mansions in Shangri-La around Sunnyvale, CA.
A wicked elixir of Glen Beck and neoliberal viciousness and evangelism, and the redneck nation (seemingly voting against their own self interests by supporting Bush and Co.) is spreading lick napweed. What's more, could you imagine the white, blue-collar workers of West Virginia supporting the party of Neoliberal Bill who abandoned them in favor of the high-tech industry? Democrats have lost these former strongholds not because of a lack of class consciousness, but quite the opposite. Since both parties are schilling more neoliberal trade policies, a West Virginian may as well go with the candidate that sounds more patriotic, opposes abortion, or is white!
Statistics from the last few federal elections indicate these realities. Thomas Frank was mostly wrong in What's the Matter with Kansas? when he theorized that the poor are voting against their own self-interests only when the vote for Republicans. Democrats were hurting them too. In 2004, in West Virginia's poorest coal counties, voters were more likely to stop voting than walk across the street to vote Republican. Only 30% voter turnout in Mingo, Logan, Boone, and McDowell counties. So now add in more years of Democratic neglect and abandonment coupled with latent racism and you can imagine their parallel abandonment of the Democratic Party.
Beakerkin can only pretend to understand racism and antisemitism He seems to completely lack the ability to appreciate that the rednecks you write about are the racist, antisemitic Americans he thinks he deplores. His repeated use of "Jooos" is instructive. He cannot be taken seriously and should be ignored.
More precisely it should say he appeases Zionist and Arab leaders in oil rich nations.
In the US, as opposed to other developed nations, everyone but the homeless, think they are middle class. However degenerate Canada and just about every country in Europe has a labor party.
"Degenerate" is the word alright. Pretty much all the former "labour" parties are neoliberal apologists these days.
The left has been neutered. The Greens run around yelling at China and wringing their hands about the fake genocides in Darfur and Tibet.
"everybody but the homeless think they are middle class" beautiful!
Beakerkin, what does "support for Israel" even mean? Vaguely worded surveys are bound to come up with such bull but get a little more specific and what might you find?
Cringing, I remain optimistic that the left-left can remain unnuetered.
cringinginamazement: It's nothing new that various labor parties, are pro-neoliberal, at the top. Still they are a good place, to fight for a decent political program. That is where working class people go, to be political.
Tibet and Darfur are legit issues. They should be seperated from interimperialist competition between the US and China.
ren - I think you see the labour parties of the non US west in a better light than I do. Perhaps because I remember them as genuine workers' parties and my view of "left" is maybe a bit more radical than would be accepted in the USA.
They've been totally subverted by big business, zionists and the international bodies pushing the Washington consensus. Any social rhetoric is window dressing to give an illusion of choice between them and the Tories.
Darfur and Tibet are both well disguised USraeli imperialist black ops. Darfur in particular. It's all about the oil and Israel I'm afraid. There is conflict sure, but hardly a genocide and the press narrative is complete upside down propaganda. Most of the noise is coming from zionist fronts on Madison Avenue and K St whose main focus is on building a propaganda case for invasion.
It is the US client militias and others resisting the peace accords.
The Sudan is on the neocon/Likud hit list of regime change. Always was.
I support the various labor parties, for recruitment and having a political base. That is where progressive workers look to, when becoming involved politically. For a radical to join, it means coming with your own program. The support has been compared to the support a rope gives a hanging person.
Neoconservatism is dead. Nobody wants that title. The US has to go through China, to get to oil in Sudan.
Somebody better tell the neocons then. They seem to be well and truly alive and ramping up for their next war of aggression against Iran.
All the "progressives" are just the old liberals aren't they. The enablers of the Western imperial project. It is a term that makes genuine leftists cringe and the third world weep. The labour parties of today are neoliberals with a sprinkling of neoconservatives. They represent big capital and Israel. Blair and Brown for example are both neoconservatives.
The project in the Sudan is regime change. The oil leases that China took over when Chevron walked off are in Darfur.
A coincidence?
The US sponsored violence currently breaking Somalia up is related. It is all about USraeli imperial designs.
Lets us observe Nazism 3.0 from Cringing Stupidity.
"Most of the noise about Darfur is coming from Zionist front groups"
The use of the term USisraeli is also classic Protocols of the Elders of Zion 3.0.
At a certain point all of this mania becomes a cartoon. Then again to call commies a cartoon is an insult to cartoons everywhere.
We have a variety of anti semites here.
A Elmer Fudd maia by Cringing
B Touretes by Troutsky who merely missed saying Zionist
C Refined PC Antisemitism Renegade Eye who has never met a Nazi or Conspiracy Nut like cringing he will say a peep about
D Julius Striecher Graeme The one that likes cartoon about the victims in Gaza whose saintly presence is the sole focal point of the Universe. Graeme is actually more obsessed with the folks in Gaza than the folks in Gaza themselves.
Has anyone seen Che Sponge Bob? Is he shooting peasants at the Presidio with no trial again? Those
pesky peasants who chant down with Communism do not know the wonder of Che Sponge Bob. Che Sponge Bob must execute them for their own good.
Viva Stupidity.
Aloha Beak! I will sleep so much better tonight knowing that you miss me!
¡Qué viva el señorcito Beak-boy!
Beaky, if you had anything sensible to say, you would do so.
Che Sponge Bob
So how are the unwashed masses? Are they fit to be led or tied. Do not confuse the jaded antics that NYC and SF types that pay top dollar for with sound prison management. This is how Lyndie England got into trouble. Had she been living in a workers paradise she would have known the correct way torture prisoners. Her behavior is an illustration of capitalist mercenary greed exploiting the prisoner class. The true faithful know that only the state must exploit prison labor.
ALL HAIL CHE SPONGE BOB
Cringing
You are a low class rabid anti-semite who peddles the Protocols of the Elders of Zion 3.0. Your rhetoric can be found on Neonazi sites like Stormfront. Why don't you use the term ZOG instead of USREAL.
The fact that the Bolsheviks do not say a thing is because anti-semitism is the glue of the grand alliance.
As usual the far left types rationalize your Elmer Fudd Joo fantasies that are in each of your moronic posts. The US is run by a Jooish Cabal is classic anti-semitism. The foolishness about Zionists wanting to invade Darfur is typical of your idiocy.
You may now resume playing with your Lego Concentration Camp.
Beakerkin will do anything to not take a position.
Ren
I take positions on everything just you are too stupid to figure it out.
Now repeat after me for your own good.
ALL HAIL CHE SPONGE BOB!!!! WHO NEEDSGOD WHEN WE HAVE CHE SPONGE BOB!!!THE UNWASHED MASSES MUST BE GUIDED BY THE WISDOM OF CHE SPONGE BOB!!! ALL OTHER LEADERS PALE BEFORE CHE SPONGE BOB.
CHE SPONGE BOB DECLARES ALL LOGIC IS WHATEVER HE SAYS IT IS AT ANY GIVEN SECOND. CHE SONGE BOB SAYS YOU PUT YOUR RIGHT FOOT IN YOU PUT YOUR RIGHT.....
Some Contra elements just placed the Hokey Pokey in today's message from Che Sponge Bob. We must look for Zionist, Titoist, Latoyaites, Rebbieitans and all other fans of the Jackson Family and stage show trials.
It would seem that Graeme has owned
Vanilla Ice CDS and a hidden stash of Neil Diamond CDS. This obviously
means he is a faux webolutionary.
"Beakerkin will do anything to not take a position."
Yep. That's pretty much what it is. Fill the screen with goop in the hope that the lack of substance will be hidden.
Waste of electrons.
Cringing
Even in this special ed class your stupidity stands out. You are a total anti semite and Ren's non reaction to your Protocol's of Zion 3.0 proves my points about Ren.
Ren is not a Jew, despite his frequent claims. His claim to that was severed when he signed onto the cult of treason, class genocide and death. He has lost any claim to his
humanity as well.
Thus Ren abuses these biological links to give himself extra cachet.
"Look Comwads I am pissing on my relatives in the name of Marx".
Thus Ren will not ever say a peep to the most outlandish anti-semitism such as your classic bit about USreal or Neocon cabals
itching for war in Darfur.
You yourself piss on the bodies of the dead Blacks in your self righteous Palestiniomania. Even the
deranged souless Ren does not deny the evil in Darfur.
"antisemitism" is such a pointless term these days. it means nothing.
I guess it was always going to be the case as it was a manufactured word used to elevate victimhood of one theo-ethnic group above others. A fool's errand in the long term. It was never accurate even, given that its users were not semitic ethnically.
Thanks for the comedy though Beaky.
There is no "genocide" in Darfur.
Iraq, Palestine, Colombia, Congo all probably qualify but not in the Sudan. It is zionist propaganda pure and simple.
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