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发帖数: 38600 | 1 Sanders and Trump: How the Political and Media Establishment Got 2016 So
Wrong
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/162019
Perhaps the biggest story coming out of campaign 2016 is not the rise of
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, but the fact that the media and political
establishment never saw it coming. And the fact that they never saw it
coming perfectly explains the rise of Sanders and Trump.
And here's why: the economic and social wreckage wrought by the Great
Recession of 2007-2009, which flat lined the lives and aspirations of so
many, barely registered on the lifestyle Richter scale of media and
political heavies.
Some of these elites may have seen their bull market portfolios or 401(k)
plans dip, and for those trying to sell vacation homes they saw demand
soften a bit. But as economic growth recovered so did their assets, and for
the most part the recession to them was a talking point, a dinner party
topic.
Not so for the vast majority of Americans. The recession's economic pandemic
may have caused the establishment only seasonal sniffles, but it has had an
ongoing, debilitating, and personal impact on working and middle class
Americans. And to young people raised to believe in a buoyant America and
bigger future, a pinched economy is all they have known.
Those who owned homes saw their property values crater and with it the
economic security embedded in the American Dream that homeownership used to
represent. Eight years after the real estate bubble burst, thirteen out of
every one-hundred homeowners remain seriously underwater on their mortgages,
meaning that they owe a lot more than their homes are worth.
Those who lost jobs stoically hoped for comparable ones, but after far too
lengthy unemployment many had to accept new ones at lower pay. According to
the National Employment Law Project, mid-wage and higher-wage industries
accounted for 78 percent of the job losses during the recession but, as of
February 2014, only 56 percent of the job gains during the recovery.
Daily insecurity is palpable and real to a large number of Americans. A year
ago the Pew Research Center reported that about a third of Americans making
$30,000 to $100,000 per year said that the recession had a "major effect"
on their personal finances and they still have not recovered. For many,
family expenses exceed monthly income, savings have essentially zeroed out,
and debt – consumer, student and mortgage – leaves them at best running in
place.
Feeling poorer is not supposed to be an American narrative, but largely
because of the housing crisis and the recession, middle class families saw
their median wealth fall by 28 percent between 2001 and 2013. And it may be
worse than these numbers indicate. Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of
St. Louis concluded in a study published last April that middle class
Americans "may be under more downward economic and financial pressure than
common but simplistic rank-based measures of income or wealth would suggest."
A middle class that once saw itself central to the American Dream now seems
to be on the outside looking in. And what they see with their noses pressed
to the glass is a top tier of Americans accumulating wealth and income with
little room at the party for anyone else.
Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez calculates that the top one percent
captured 58 percent of all income growth between 2009 and 2014, and the top
ten percent now earns a greater share of the national paycheck than at any
time in the past 100 years. Wealth is even more lopsided, according to New
York University economist Edward Wolff: as of 2010, the top one percent
holds 42 percent of the nation's non-home wealth, and for the top decile it'
s 85 percent.
Or consider this lead sentence in a 2014 New York Times article: "Corporate
profits are at their highest level in at least 85 years. Employee
compensation is at the lowest level in 65 years." So if corporations aren't
investing profits in their workers, where are they putting the money? Many
are buying back shares of stock and paying hefty dividends to shareholders,
all of which benefits those who own capital, not those who work for capital.
Americans have long looked to government to right this imbalance, but this
time they see Washington bailing out those on top at the expense of everyone
else. In a 2015 Pew survey, about seven in ten Americans said that
government economic policies since the recession have helped large banks,
financial institutions, corporations, and the wealthy -- and have done
little or nothing at all to help the middle class, small businesses, or
those in poverty.
And politicians to their ironic credit confirm exactly what the American
people are seeing: tone deaf Republicans who want to water down regulations
on the financial industry and prioritize tax cuts for the wealthy – and
tone deaf Democrats who claim to speak for working families but take
millions in donations and speaking fees from the same Wall Street investment
bankers whose recklessness helped create the crash.
What many Americans see is a go-along, get-along political culture that
coddles the status quo establishment and holds no one responsible for the
economic hardship the few visited upon the many.
So where do they turn for explanation and help? Enter Bernie Sanders and
Donald Trump.
It's not the first time Americans have channeled their disaffection through
political populism. Andrew Jackson proclaimed himself a "man of the people"
unafraid to take on the "rich and well born," and he focused the economic
anxieties of his era on the Second Bank of the United States, which he
labeled a tool of wealthy elites and foreign interests and succeeded in
dismantling it.
In the 1890s, with the agrarian economy convulsing from the industrial
revolution, monopoly power, and a population shift from farms to cities,
William Jennings Bryan led a populist wave that targeted banking
manipulation, financial power, concentrated wealth, and corporate
malfeasance – but also exhibited a strain of nativism, anti-intellectualism
, and what the historian Richard Hofstadter called "the paranoid style."
Now unspool this populism and there are strands of both Sanders and Trump
woven into it.
Sanders, the classic economic populist, provides ample evidence that big
banks and institutions are playing with our nation's wealth and influencing
democracy in a way that benefits themselves at our expense. Think of
President Roosevelt decrying the "economic royalists" and "privileged
princes" who, "thirsting for power, reached out for control over government
itself." Think of the widespread popularity of the 2015 film, The Big Short,
which chronicles how hubris and self-interest on Wall Street caused the
economic hardship and pain on Main Street.
Trump too says he is not beholden to the moneyed class or the media
establishment – notwithstanding his own vast wealth and celebrity status –
but his populism veers more into a nativist mutation that expresses a
generalized fear of decline and sense of betrayal, that other nations are
getting the better of us, that hard-working Americans are getting the short
end, that we are being overwhelmed by a mob at the gates and our leaders are
too weak and ill-prepared keep us strong.
Work hard and you'll succeed, Americans are taught to believe. But what
happens when people who play by the rules feel economically and politically
dispossessed? Why does the system seem to reward those who caused the pain
and punish those who have acted in good faith? When working hard leaves us
treading water and gasping for air, where do we turn?
We gravitate to those who can help us make sense of the situation, identify
who's responsible for our plight, and promise clear, straightforward, and
decisive action. Which tribune we choose to support is simply a function of
our ideological and cultural predispositions.
So as Americans were roaring a big cry of pain this past decade, few in the
political and media hierarchy were hearing them. And when the roar got
louder, the elites simply saw it as a reality TV show that was entertaining
but not all that serious. Little did they realize that the roar was aimed
directly at them. | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 2 So as Americans were roaring a big cry of pain this past decade, few in the
political and media hierarchy were hearing them. And when the roar got
louder, the elites simply saw it as a reality TV show that was entertaining
but not all that serious. Little did they realize that the roar was aimed
directly at them.
The elite of the RNC/GOPe/Neocon Uniparty elite thugs, who have been the
overseers of the Faux Conservative plantations since 1961. These overseers
keep trying to trick/betray/control us to stay on/in their faux conservative
plantations by selecting their ilk/puppets as our candidates. They lie and
promise us conservatism and when elected $crew us daily in congress and as
POTUS! NR and their handpicked tv/radio hosts have pushed their lies for
decades.
In NH, Trump and his voters ignored them. His voters then voted big time for
Trump. They won bigtime and broke the rules of the plantation masters by
voting for Trump in NH. This is scaring the hell out of our former neocon
RNC/GOPe masters of the faux conservative plantations and their ilk, the
Club for Growth.
It is wonderful to see this decades old, long standing corrupt political
system disintegrating right before our eyes. This corrupted system hates
working Americans. It rewards illegals and those who bring them into America
to freeload off the American workers slaving in the faux conservative
plantation.
We are seeing a paradigm shift with us selecting our Presidential Candidate,
instead of the RNC/GOPe/Uniparty elites, who hate us, selecting our
candidates.
There is a Black Swan event occurring with the daily suicidal self wrought
destruction of the RNC/GOPe, UniParty, Open Border Thugs, DC faux pundits,
Faux News, ABCNNBCBS, NT and the left wing fish wraps. Something similar may
be happening with the DEMes.
Many of us are looking forward to seeing the broken bones, drying blood and
entrails of the Lying RNC/GOP Open Borders Elite, The Club for Growth, the
UniParty, their DC faux conservative pundits, their mediots, their phoney
pollsters and focus groups, Faux, ABCNNBCBS, their hired tv and radio hacks
strewn across the primary states as much as our victories in those states.
We have escaped from their faux conservative plantations. We are not going
back for more lies, abuse and mistreatment from our former RNC/GOPe masters.
We will vote for Trump and destroy them! | s*********r
发帖数: 9493 | 3 2016年度大戏finale就是床铺和三德对决：让暴风雨来得更猛烈些吧！
嗯，北京人，你不配个好玩的图？ | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 4 我看你是惟恐天下不乱，哈哈
叔在上班，手边没图。
【在 s*********r 的大作中提到】
: 2016年度大戏finale就是床铺和三德对决：让暴风雨来得更猛烈些吧！
: 嗯，北京人，你不配个好玩的图？
| b*******h
发帖数: 2585 | | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 6 不客气
【在 b*******h 的大作中提到】
: 这篇文章写得真好。谢谢转载。
| b********n
发帖数: 38600 | | p*****n
发帖数: 3678 | 8 写得好。
奥巴这个混蛋就知道说人家竞选不够 serious, 真正原因是奥巴这个混蛋全不顾民众对
安全，对经济的担忧，自己跑去舔缠头，到处浪费钱，让底层人民非常愤怒。
the
entertaining
conservative
and
【在 b********n 的大作中提到】
: So as Americans were roaring a big cry of pain this past decade, few in the
: political and media hierarchy were hearing them. And when the roar got
: louder, the elites simply saw it as a reality TV show that was entertaining
: but not all that serious. Little did they realize that the roar was aimed
: directly at them.
: The elite of the RNC/GOPe/Neocon Uniparty elite thugs, who have been the
: overseers of the Faux Conservative plantations since 1961. These overseers
: keep trying to trick/betray/control us to stay on/in their faux conservative
: plantations by selecting their ilk/puppets as our candidates. They lie and
: promise us conservatism and when elected $crew us daily in congress and as
| b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 9 "So as Americans were roaring a big cry of pain this past decade, few in the
political and media hierarchy were hearing them. And when the roar got
louder, the elites simply saw it as a reality TV show that was entertaining
but not all that serious. Little did they realize that the roar was aimed
directly at them."
【在 p*****n 的大作中提到】
: 写得好。
: 奥巴这个混蛋就知道说人家竞选不够 serious, 真正原因是奥巴这个混蛋全不顾民众对
: 安全，对经济的担忧，自己跑去舔缠头，到处浪费钱，让底层人民非常愤怒。
:
: the
: entertaining
: conservative
: and
| j*****v
发帖数: 7717 | 10 媒體8年前，對馬統只有正面的報導, 不報導負面的。
佩林只是在手上寫下提示，就被媒體鋪天蓋地的抹黑。
而馬統的所有演講都是照字幕念的，媒體從來不提。
正是因為有了媒體對馬統的保駕護航，才有了今天的結果，該！ |
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