It is hard going, being impoverished and poor in the American Nightmare... I read that the American Working Class for the most part is so foolish, that they idolize the rich; and resent it when people much poorer than themselves get welfare payments, so they are dead set against them.
So the working classes are against social insurance and they idolize the rich. Forget about Marxism now. You cannot liberate people that are this stupid. No hope here. The reason lots of them went for Trump is because the working classes hate the upper middle class managerial snobs that they work for, serve in restaurants, and get abuse from. This includes "Limousine Liberal" Democrats. The working classes hate these people, which is why they rejected Hillary Clinton in droves. The white working class, this nebulous, dying phantom is a case in point. This is true of them more than anyone else.
I am a member of the White Underclass. Too poor to be considered as part of the white working class. Technically, I am a Jew, but only 25%, so mostly white. I understand the unique disease of the white underclass, really quite well.
The white underclass is a class of nihilists. Deep down, we all love death and destruction, especially when it visits itself upon the affluent who live lives we will never have. We all love it when they suffer violence, when they are murdered in terrible ways, when their fancy houses burn down, or are destroyed in floods. We live to see the rich and affluent suffer. We stay glued to our TVs or cheap tablets or PCs and we suck it all up like heroin, the heroin that many of us die from, the ones that are lucky. We are ghouls for all of this. It is true. But are we aware of it? No, we are not. We could never own up to being this evil consciously, we would condemn ourselves. We experience all of this in a private state of hypnosis, where we feel like we're something other than ourselves. Enjoy it as a kind of vicarious power, and then disown it and forget it. It is not us, oh no...
Comment: The protests have actually been going on for two weeks now, gradually building up to Wednesday's complete shutdown of transport networks in and out of cities in the region.
See also:
Winter of Discontent in France: Protests, Endless Dark Skies, And Crazy New Laws