Slavery is an important bit of history for understanding a divide with two types of capitalist elites that still exist in our society. Global elites and local elites.
Local elites are tied to a specific location in a way global elites are not. Generally conservatism is tied to local elites and liberalism is tied to global elites.
There are big fish and small fish in both groups. But a lot of this angst that is culminating has to do with the fact that the locals are losing out overall. The local dominated American dream is something like starting a small successful-enough business that allows you some actual freedom defined in the positive sense.
That lady that got shot at the capital incident -- she owned her own pool cleaning company. Capitalism in these peoples heads is their ally. But she misses that capitalism might not be that into her anymore.
Capitalism just cares about maximizing that supply and demand -- and does not care that its destroying your community. In fact, it probably wants your community cleared out so it can make better use of the land at this point. You served your purpose like the planters did.
Capitalism will work for you if you can do something for it. But you gotta stay on top of that or capitalism drops you like a business drops a bad employee -- in fact its exactly like that.
The sense of precariousness is what has us all mind controlled. Most of us know how close we are to being broke as a joke again. Even guys running a tech company are constantly stressed about the algorithm exposing their flaws and potentially replacing them.
Trump is representative of local elites that reject globalist culture and legal maneuvers that facilitate globalism. That's what "rightwing populism" is. A politics a local elite that feel (justly) oppressed by the global elite.
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