Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "Rob Henderson: how the elite signal status with their beliefs | SpectatorTV" video.

  1. It's STILL not popular to say this - my comments on the subject have been taken down - but this is strongly redolent of Goodhart's 'Somewheres vs Anywheres' take on Brexit.
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  2. Luxury beliefs, by definition, are principally beliefs that someone can afford to hold. That's as opposed to someone else with a vastly different set of priorities who likely can't. What then happens is that a self-serving virtuous narrative is built around those luxury values that are designed very often to marginalise even further and browbeat those who can't afford them. Then that narrative might itself be paraded and/or cherry picked depending on circumstances. Someone might claim to believe that humans are destroying the planet, for example, and then purchase an expensive EV beyond the means of most to demonstrate their virtuousness but perhaps then, far less conspicuously, choose not to forego three foreign holidays a year. The brutal irony here is that invariably it is 'they' who are the primary per capita generators of all that apparently ails us NOT the less well off. Manipulative, dishonest and cynical doesn't even come close to covering it.
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  3. Likely the closest thing to the absolute 100% perfect model of modern day political dynasties and succession is the USA.
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  4. ​ @turbolevo8703 So he's endorsing Gramsci's theory or undermining it?
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  5. Politicians and certain blessed groups want the great unwashed masses aka 'deplorables' to talk and ideally fall out about just anything from race to transgenderism just so long as they don't talk about the elephants in the room... Class and the iniquitous wealth divide.
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  6. According to jibbering jabbering Joe if you're black and you don't vote for him then you ain't black apparently. More sprinkles on that Joey?
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  7. The 'old' essentially captive pre-globalist aristocracy at least had the decency to realise that they needed the masses to facilitate and maintain their positions. Hence the grudging respect and sometime affection. The new globalist aristocracy despise the working classes and believe that there's always somewhere else they can go if things don't seem to be working out for them.
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