{"id":8818,"date":"2024-11-12T08:34:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T15:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8818"},"modified":"2024-11-12T08:34:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T15:34:24","slug":"trickle-down-bigotry-and-servility-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/trickle-down-bigotry-and-servility-to-power\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;trickle-down bigotry&#8221; and &#8220;servility to power&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/nov\/12\/donald-trump-trumpism-danger-president-elect\">The great danger is that this time, Trumpism starts making sense | Randeep Ramesh | The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Trump aligns directly with billionaires, promoting a culture where justice serves the wealthy, prejudice is trivialised and power diminishes equality. This trickle-down bigotry will ultimately create a system where servility to power and social division become normalised, eroding fairness for everyone. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Trump\u2019s aim isn\u2019t to lift all boats, but rather to lift enough to convince voters to tolerate the corruption, consumer scams and environmental degradation that enrich a plutocratic class. This strategy, boosted by a pliant mediasphere, enables him to present a party of private power as the voice of the ordinary voter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great danger is that this time, Trumpism starts making sense | Randeep Ramesh | The Guardian Trump aligns directly with billionaires, promoting a culture where justice serves the wealthy, prejudice is trivialised and power diminishes equality. This trickle-down bigotry will ultimately create a system where servility to power and social division become normalised, eroding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/trickle-down-bigotry-and-servility-to-power\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;trickle-down bigotry&#8221; and &#8220;servility to power&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8819,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions\/8819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}