Trump Triumphed Due to Downward Mobility

[Stephanie]

this is one explanation. what I see is: the people are SICK AND TRIED of BOTH parties, pandering for certain votes, dirty politics, smears, lies and dividing us with Class warfare as the Democrat party does, they have seen these snakes get elected and then stabbed them in the back OVER AND OVER and over.

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Trump Triumphed Due to Downward Mobility

By David P. Goldman March 2, 2016

Trump Triumphed Due to Downward Mobility
Asia Times

It’s still a horse race, but only just: Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday victories in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Arkansas and Massachusetts outweigh the Ted Cruz victory in his home state of Texas and neighboring Oklahoma. The Republican Establishment will not close ranks around Cruz as the last candidate capable of beating Trump. Marco Rubio’s consolation price was the Minnesota caucuses with 37% of the vote.

For the past six months my Republican friends and I have watched Donald Trump’s ascendancy and asked ourselves whether the voters had gone crazy. The voters aren’t crazy. We in the Republican elite were crazy: we thought we could allow the American economy to remain a rigged game indefinitely. The voters think otherwise. That’s why Trump is winning. That’s also why Bernie Sanders, the least likely presidential candidate in living memory, gave Hillary Clinton a run for her money. If you don’t give people capitalism, the late Jude Wanniski used to say, they’ll take socialism.
Americans are shrewd. You can’t spit on them and tell them it’s raining. They know the game is rigged against them. They know it’s rigged the same way that they know a lottery is rigged: There aren’t any winners. They know that they are downwardly mobile because they aren’t upwardly mobile. Americans don’t mind playing against bad odds–they play the lottery all the time–but they think that they are playing against zero odds. Ordinary Americans had an outside chance to get rich until 2008. Now they have no chance at all.


Upward mobility is America’s gauge of well-being. It’s not the decline of median family income that gets under Americans’ skin, but the perception that the elites have pulled the ladder up behind them. During the quarter-century after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration, it was only a slight exaggeration to say that someone in every family got rich. They bought a cable television franchise, started a website, got some stock in a high-flying tech company, flipped real estate, or ran a small business that became a big business. Inequality didn’t bother Americans as long as they had a chance at a winning ticket–not necessarily a fair chance, but at least the kind of chance that paid off occasionally for ordinary people. As long they could see that people like them were becoming rich, they kept playing the game.

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Trump Triumphed Due to Downward Mobility

 

[Luddly Neddite]

That certainly shows the stupidity of his followers.

 

[kyzr]

It may not be downward mobility, but the fact that the DC whores from both parties cost the US voters $14-trillion in wealth due to the financial collapse in 2008. That's a lot of wealth to lose. Sure the market came back somewhat, but has everyone's 401k come back, no. The voters may be grasping at straws, but we know for a fact that the establishment of both parties are lying gutless crooks selling us out to the highest bidder.

 

[Stephanie]

It may not be downward mobility, but the fact that the DC whores from both parties cost the US voters $14-trillion in wealth due to the financial collapse in 2008. That's a lot of wealth to lose. Sure the market came back somewhat, but has everyone's 401k come back, no. The voters may be grasping at straws, but we know for a fact that the establishment of both parties are lying gutless crooks selling us out to the highest bidder.

good way to put it. and the Truth.