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I relate to these folks. Classic liberals, who’ve voted Democrat, or Labour (UK), or Labor (Oz) -- as I did -- but find the parties have shifted underneath them and now stand for the opposite of what they used to. All these parties used to stand up for the Working Class. Now none does. They all mock -- despise, hate -- the Working Classes. They all now stand for the elites. Look at the US and how Dem it is on the two coasts. Look at the UK and how Labour it is in London.
Michael Shellenberger talks of a “top down” difference now. Not left vs right. It’s the elite vs the people (aka “populist”).
Me, I’m an elitist, but only because I can’t help being in the elite. I’m in the 1%, live in a major city, do so comfortably, surrounded by liberals, by progressives. I’m a classic “Laptop Class”. But I don’t stand with the elite. I don’t like their world views, their despising of the working classes. I don’t like the fact that they’ve never had to meet a payroll. I don’t like the fact that they simply don’t work. As in work making something. I despise finding the working class despicable. (ADDED: and while I don’t particularly like Trump, I don’t stand with the elite’s hate of him, their TDS. I don’t understand it)
By the way, Batya Ungar-Sargon (above) wrote a book on the New York Times, called “Bad News”, which I read a few months ago. Shows how the classic journalist trade of old, with young folks coming in and learning a craft from the crusty old editor — like Jimmy Olsen amd Perry White — has been replaced with Ivy-league educated, rich trust-fund kids, who know nothing but comfort, and have been educated, steeped, brainwashed, in the woke ideology that’s taken over the academy. Good book. Bad truth.
