I disagree with Jonathan Pie Sweary bastard that the Left got it all wrong - although, with Mrs Clinton, they did. She called Trump supporters "a basket of deplorables"! Ah, respect your opposition. Respect the task you have to do. I don't think she did.
I think people who are so clever and sharp like Jonathan Pie don't understand that there are people out there who don't like being made to think, who just vote with their gut. Those were the people that Trump engaged. Jonathan Pie thinks the Left should take their arguments to them in a more active way. I think he's onto a lost cause there. I mean, if they liked thinking they would have got degrees, maybe? They kind of thing they think is that all arguments are sophisticated and for the elite and clever people will take their voice away.
If you look at "Brave New World" you can see a lot of this predicted. There are people in BNW who are bred not to argue and do the dirty work, and they are given endless entertainment - feelies, orgies, porn - so they are always distracted from reality and never really connect with other people, there is no point in anyone empathising with anyone else. And it works fine! There is a dictator who decides what's good for them, and his priority is the capitalist system. People exist to keep the capitalist system going. The problem is the few people who, in spite of all the conditioning, and lack of individuality, want something more from life: a deeper connection. Those people who emphasise with the less fortunate and want to go beyond animal pleasures. Now these seem to be about half of the people and in BNW it's a very small minority, easily dealt with.
Avoiding this scenario worsening depends on change coming from the young - often they are open-minded. (They liked Bernie Sanders, they like Jeremy Corbyn). It all depends on good educators and parents. I don't have much hope for us all.
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