Trump Thread

[HopAlongBunny]

Donald Trump
Opiate of the masses?:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...upport-in-2016

So is opioid use and Trump support a symptom or a cause

[Husar]

Donald Trump
Opiate of the masses?:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...upport-in-2016

So is opioid use and Trump support a symptom or a cause

They're both symptoms of the same cause.

The neoliberal capitalist system and the inability or unwillingness of the democrats to do anything about it while they focus on minority issues (identity politics).
I'm not saying socialism is the only answer, because some of these unemployed opioid former coal miners still believe that full on capitalism will bring them the american dream from coal miner to millionaire or have archaic views about manhood being derived from the amount of coal dust or exhaust gasses a man can swallow before dropping dead.
Sanders could still have won though since he also promised radical change and to look out for the small man.

edit: should read the full article before replying, it's actually mentioned.

[Montmorency]

believe that full on capitalism will bring them the american dream from coal miner to millionaire

Building off the comparisons to pre-modern aristocracy, I have a new catch-phrase brewing for the trope of poor-to-rich socioeconomic mobility:

Nobility mobility is debility

Comments and suggestions?

[Gilrandir]

Building off the comparisons to pre-modern aristocracy, I have a new catch-phrase brewing for the trope of poor-to-rich socioeconomic mobility:

Nobility mobility is debility

Comments and suggestions?

I suggest

She sells sea shells on the sea shore.