Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "No ‘enthusiasm factor’ from Democrat supporters" video.
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Trump represents the middle. Reaches out to the middle. He appeals to the middle, because we've been gettin' squeezed from above and - in many cities - from below (because of what the people above are doing). Against the middle are arrayed the super-rich, government employees (including educators), and the non-working poor. The lower- and middle-class workers are a pretty unbeatable coalition.
It's agonizingly slow, if you're trapped by the daily news cycle and the wish for all things to be known and all conflicts resolved NOW, but my sense of the ebb and flow of things is that there's a MASSIVE, almost unprecedented paradigm shift taking place around the world, and it's taking place very rapidly. There's a revival in parochialism, and it's actually a GOOD thing! Good starts in the individual's heart and spreads outward. It is NOT dispensed from On High. People have been looking outside themselves for someone to solve or someone to blame for their problems, when it all starts at home.
People have been looking to governments far away to run everything, and conditions are different, everywhere you go. The LOCALS need to handle their business and the FEDS need to butt out.
But what's driving it is not what you might think. It's more like the American Revolution in the sense that the British were paying way more than they could afford and charging way more than Americans could afford, to provide services (French and Indian War) to the colonies that the colonies needed to handle, themselves. It wasn't that the British were all that unreasonable, given that they were locked in a fight to the death with France in Europe.
The establishment elites have an entirely different world view than we masses, which they would rule. But the plain fact is, the establishment elites really aren't very elite, these days, and that's assuming they ever were. They're not in touch with our problems. A small increase in gas prices won't touch them. But it could mean the difference between being cold this winter or being able to buy your kid a new pair of shoes when he outgrows the last pair. What do they care if the guy making $30,000 a year (i.e. $15/hr) can no longer afford to take his family of 4 out for pizza once a week or once a month? They can point to the $15/hr minimum wage as something "good" they "accomplished," when all they really did was devalue the $15/hr guy from BEFORE they came along.
Your plumber has more worthwhile skills and understanding of how people interact with one another on a daily basis than ANY politician or stuffed-shirt technocrat. That highly skilled plumber is one of MANY Trump "uneducateds." Then there are the crotchety old conservatives who still frequent math and science departments, in the very heart of the liberal fortress. We are an unlikely, yet inevitable coalition of people who see history and human progress as a FREEING of people from government patronage, not a welcoming of the patronage and the oppression that always comes with it.
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