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The premise of the entire book is wrong
I could not disagree more with the authors premise. Where I live in the US the class war is a complete fabrication of conservative controlled media. This idea that there is an educated elite representing some large percentage of liberal voters is complete nonsense and a straw man. All the people I know who voted for Trump are educated and earn plenty of money. My wife, who didn't vote for Trump, is a physician that makes less per hour than a plumber and at over 50 years of age is still $100K in school debt and works 80-100 hours per week. Wow, how can that be Mr. Collier? I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, but make less today than I did 30 years ago when I first started out. I didn't vote for Trump either. Sorry, we are not the educated elite that make all the money and look down on the less fortunate causing them to become nationalists. Plumbers and real estate agents make more money than we do. How can that be? Money and education have nothing at all to do with what's happening in the US with populism. What's happening is simply racism fed by fear from propaganda firing on all cylinders. What we are witnessing is the complete control of the masses by the elite 1% that have perfectly divided the 99% with their control of the media and the message to entrench their families positions. As it turns out social media is easily corrupted by a state who wants to control the message, where the lesson learned is, social media changed nothing, it just made the elite more powerful. And now that it takes billions to win an election, there is no end in sight. It's over. The next generation will have less time on their hands, will liver shorter from every increasing stress and have no chance of retirement. The wealthy have created the ultimate slave class. And the slave class now lives in a fake democracy. Further, the financial crisis wiped many of us out, where at this point, there is little chance of retirement, regardless of our education or work skills.
December 2018 · Books