Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "What J.D. Vance’s Transformation Tells Us About the Future of Democracy" video.

  1. So far, so good, Stephen. Then what? A reasonably sensible person might complain, in the hope of inspiring somebody else to help solve the problem complained about, and then talk a little trash as a way of inspiring potential helpers. Even a reasonably sensible person might be mistaken about the likelihood of any help being anywhere at hand. A different sort of person, a persistent whiner, might we say, could complain in the hope of inspiring others to join in the fun. Talking trash might even be fun for a while. Therer was, after the Civil War, a Populaist Party and a populist movement in the United States, and they inspired enough helpers at least to direct a great deal of income toward Tennessee. A somewhat parallel movement in Europe led to Kristalnacht, and some redirections of income, and then to World War II, and... Trump? He and his helpers have shown only one consistent policy aim, and it does not resemble either of those populaisms. Trump in power has redirected income very sharply toward the already rich. I note in passing that the world's richest man is not Trump, but is sometimes these days Elon Musk -- and all the Wikipedia pages around Nikola Tesla have been rewritten in recent years to turn the bloviating, poverty-stricken, con man into a successful inventor.
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