You've Been Told a Lie About the Political Divide in America
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2024
- Batya Ungar-Sargon is the author of "Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women." This is a clip from her recent interview with We The 66 (the official podcast of RocaNews) in which she shares the premise of her new book.
She argues that political polarization is a myth and that America's divide is entirely based on class. She says the elites have created bogeymen of racism and xenophobia as an alibi for not listening to the working class.
She says she knows the motives of the elites because she is one. She has worked in media for years and got a PhD in Literature from Cal Berkeley.
Link to full interview: • Ep. 14 America Is Not ...
Link to book: www.amazon.com/Second-Class-B...
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Love how Ungar- Sargon’s mind works, and she is a precise person. So refreshing
She expresses what I've been feeling for years.
This lady is one of the best voices on the internet.
I love her analysis,her version of American culture is very accurate. In my opinion.
I love her.
United in our disgust for the American Empire.
She needs to get on Joe Rogue and Alex Jones both have the biggest working class listens
People go to college and other than the basic core curriculum (a little bit of English comp and lit, a few social science courses sprinkled in) for the most part, their entire educational emphasis is boiled down to about 10-14 classes, taken over a 4 year period and most of these little geniuses only learn what someone else thinks about some narrow view of life and they never learn to think for themselves.
I wonder how well those white collar, college educated folks are going to do now that AI is on the move.
This woman does not know what she is talking about. She's right, mostly, about the difference between college graduates and non-graduates, but that is OLD news. Not sure why we needed a new book to tell us that.
It's called capitalism. Time we ended it.
She means to say that the PMC class is lockstep and owned by the security state and the unelected bureaucracy. I wonder If she realizes the extent to which all three of those are despised by those of us who are not members.
The PMC has nothing to do with the "security state" or the "deep state" or "unelected bureaucracy" or government, per se. The professional managerial class is employed by the ownership class (the owners of the means of production: the capitalists) to manage, administer, enforce and justify capitalism to the rest of us - which is to say, the population of workers - because we are their class enemies. The PMC is vested in the oligarchic politics and economy of the U.S. by the ownership class through the kinds of entry requirements she mentions here - namely, "the meritocracy" through which they attain credentials - and they're ostensibly charged with defending their own class interests at the behest of the ownership class for the sake of suppressing, misrepresenting, and re-shaping any political expression of the interests of the working class. They're given platforms throughout American society to promote capitalist ideology and enforce the owners' interests and are paid well for their work; read: all the material security that workers' precarious lives lack. Real members of the PMC can be found in media, finance, academia, politics, even government, etc.: wherever the interests of the ownership class can be promoted and defended AGAINST DEMOCRACY. If you're pro-democracy, they're YOUR class enemies. That the U.S. government and American politics, generally speaking, have been captured by corporate interests is an historical fact that leads uninformed people (like you, I'm afraid) to believe the decades' old propaganda that the government is inherently bad. It's not. In reality, democratically elected and responsive government is the only countervailing power in our society that can curtail the exploitation of the public by private interests. The U.S. government was corrupted by corporate power (neoliberals and technocrats) and now does their bidding. A good and very accessible explanation of the real PMC and its role in undermining democratic institutions for oligarchic ones can be found in the work of Thomas Frank; see especially, "Listen Liberal!" If you want to do more than repeat corporate party and radio BS talking points, I suggest you get a library card. BTW, you're welcome.