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Why the World Is Rebelling Against ‘Experts’

northernlou

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Why the World Is Rebelling Against ‘Experts’
An unconventional, sometimes incoherent, resistance arises to the elites who keep explaining
why changes that hurt the middle class are actually for its own good.


The Great Rebellion is on and where it leads nobody knows.

Its expressions range from Brexit to the Trump phenomena and includes neo-nationalist and unconventional insurgent movement around the world. It shares no single leader, party or ideology. Its very incoherence, combined with the blindness of its elite opposition, has made it hard for the established parties across what’s left of the democratic world to contain it.

What holds the rebels together is a single idea: the rejection of the neo-liberal crony capitalist order that has arisen since the fall of the Soviet Union. For two decades, this new ruling class could boast of great successes: rising living standards, limited warfare, rapid technological change and an optimism about the future spread of liberal democracy. Now, that’s all fading or failing.

The Great Rebellion draws on five disparate and sometimes contradictory causes that find common ground in frustration with the steady bureaucratic erosion of democratic self-governance: class resentment, racial concerns, geographic disparities, nationalism, cultural identity. Each of these strains appeals to different constituencies, but together they are creating a political Molotov cocktail.

Where does this go

The Great Rebellion is, if nothing else, political incoherent.

Some conservatives hail it as a harbinger of the decline of progressivism. Traditional leftists hope for the return of state socialism, directed from national capitals. Racists see a vindication for their world view. Libertarians hail de-regulation while others, on the nationalist right, embrace the authoritarian nationalism of Vladimir Putin.

Yet for all its divergent views, the Great Rebellion has accomplished this: the first serious blow to the relentless ascendency of neo-liberal crony capitalism......

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/03/brexit-and-beyond-the-great-unruly-rebellion-against-the-neo-liberal-crony-capitalists.html
 
I've also heard this upheaval referred to, as the Great Dissatisfaction. No matter....I do think it's real and not some isolated American phenomenon limited to Trump or Bernie. They may well fade....but not the sentiment.
 
I still recommend people see an expert cardiologist when they esperience heart troubles.
 
Why the World Is Rebelling Against ‘Experts’
An unconventional, sometimes incoherent, resistance arises to the elites who keep explaining
why changes that hurt the middle class are actually for its own good.


The Great Rebellion is on and where it leads nobody knows.

Its expressions range from Brexit to the Trump phenomena and includes neo-nationalist and unconventional insurgent movement around the world. It shares no single leader, party or ideology. Its very incoherence, combined with the blindness of its elite opposition, has made it hard for the established parties across what’s left of the democratic world to contain it.

What holds the rebels together is a single idea: the rejection of the neo-liberal crony capitalist order that has arisen since the fall of the Soviet Union. For two decades, this new ruling class could boast of great successes: rising living standards, limited warfare, rapid technological change and an optimism about the future spread of liberal democracy. Now, that’s all fading or failing.





http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/03/brexit-and-beyond-the-great-unruly-rebellion-against-the-neo-liberal-crony-capitalists.html

It's like Obama said recently, if the general public does not benifit, or see the benifits of globalization for them and their communities they will rebel against it.

These experts also have the bonus of being completely condescending to their concerns.

When someone is saying I've lost my job and had to get a worst job and the experts go on TV and talk about how the gdp is growing or how the stock market is on a tear there is a very big disconnect.

These experts are just modern day Marie Antoinette's telling the people who's wages are stagnating while ceos make their yearly salary in a day, to go eat cake.
 
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In the olden days you didn't need to be smart or in some cases even a hard-worker to have a good job.

You just had to be white.

Those people are now super pissed off.
 
In the olden days you didn't need to be smart or in some cases even a hard-worker to have a good job.

You just had to be white.

Those people are now super pissed off.

Unfair much?

Look, this problem exists right here in Canada. Bombardier needs federal bailout money and while they are asking for 1 billion dollars from taxpayers they are trying to ship 200 jobs in Ontario to Mexico. These people are not dumb, or lazy, and not all of them are white. They are at risk of losing their well paying jobs for the simple reason that you can pay a Mexican worker a lot less.

Meanwhile the upper management of bombardier makes their wage in a day. And in the big picture, those 200 jobs are forgotten about and the experts talk of how well bombardier is doing.

This is but a small example of why the working class are telling the experts to go jump off a bridge
 
Unfair much?

Look, this problem exists right here in Canada. Bombardier needs federal bailout money and while they are asking for 1 billion dollars from taxpayers they are trying to ship 200 jobs in Ontario to Mexico. These people are not dumb, or lazy, and not all of them are white. They are at risk of losing their well paying jobs for the simple reason that you can pay a Mexican worker a lot less.

Meanwhile the upper management of bombardier makes their wage in a day. And in the big picture, those 200 jobs are forgotten about and the experts talk of how well bombardier is doing.

This is but a small example of why the working class are telling the experts to go jump off a bridge

"unfair" or not. Those are the pissed off people and the ones currently revolting.

Just watch the highlights of a Trump rally for proof.
 
"unfair" or not. Those are the pissed off people and the ones currently revolting.

Just watch the highlights of a Trump rally for proof.
You were making them sound entitled and lazy. They are for the most part neither. They are victims of a system that is exporting their jobs to lower wage nations so a company can claim higher profit margins for themselves.

Frankly, that's worth revolting over.
 
Not trying to make you defensive about this, but in reality there a lot of Trump supporters that are lower educated folks that have a history of having things handed to them without the worry of an "outsider" taking something from them.

They're super pissed off and revolting because of that. Trump (a billionaire) has become their voice.

Capitalism with lack of social supports in the USA, mixed in with entitlement has impacted these groups big time.
 
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Not trying to make you defensive about this, but in reality there a lot of Trump supporters that are lower educated folks that have a history of having things handed to them without the worry of an "outsider" taking something from them.

They're super pissed off and revolting because of that. Trump (a billionaire) has become their voice.

Capitalism with lack of social supports in the USA, mixed in with entitlement has impacted these groups big time.

Sounds like Greece
 
Not trying to make you defensive about this, but in reality there a lot of Trump supporters that are lower educated folks that have a history of having things handed to them without the worry of an "outsider" taking something from them.

They're super pissed off and revolting because of that. Trump (a billionaire) has become their voice.

Capitalism with lack of social supports in the USA, mixed in with entitlement has impacted these groups big time.

I have a nice goverment job, make decent money and get discounts up the Ying yang. I am personally not effected by the forces of globalization because my job, to date, cannot be automated or exported. So I am not personally getting defensive.

That said, you are too narrow in your scope of vision. This isn't a American thing, this isn't a trump thing. It's popping up all across the western world. Austria nearly elected a anti euro president. The national front is in second in the polls in France. The UK voted for exit. These European countries have social supports and the effect is still the same. Anti establishment forces are growing in strength. Are all of these people lower educated folks who have a history of things being handed to them? Doubtful.

The common theme here is globalization. The ever tightening bonds between nations that don't benifit the people at the bottom. All these trade deals, and in the case of Europe, ever expanding regulations don't help those at the bottom of the social classes. Whole industries are being outsources while the corporate headquarters rakes in the profits. Bombardier is one example, the big 3 automakers is another. These people are not lazy. They worked hard until the jobs they worked hard at moved somewhere else for cheaper labor. Their only fault was not being able to compete with workers who make 3 dollars a hour in other countries.

In england and other places in the EU, a influx of poor citizens from places like Poland drove wages down with the goverment unable to do a thing about it because those were the rules laid out by Brussels.

And while all of this is happening, through experts tell them that it's their fault they are falling behind, that it's just good business sense to leave them in the lurch to go to cheaper places to make cars and planes and everything else. Like you try to imply, that these people are lazy and entitled.

These people are pissed that their governments are embracing policies that harm them and their future prospects. Why should people of Detroit care how well the big three automakers are doing? Most of them make their cars in Mexico these days. Governments took their tax dollars, gave it to the big three who then moved production to cheaper Mexican plants. Are these people living in a city who's main industry has suddenly collapsed care about the experts saying that ford has beaten revenue projections? These experts have screwed them royally and gotten rich doing so.

Globalization has done great things for economic growth, and corporate bottom lines. They have set back, stagnated and destroyed the livelihoods of a great deal of people, and these people have every right to use their political power to rebel against these experts. There has to be a way to help spread the benifits of globalization for everyone, not just corporations and finance ministers. Whether that means passing legislation that a certain amount of manufacturing has to happen in the country that a company is headquartered for it to qualify for tariff free trade or government passing living wage legislation, something has to happen.

Because if not, God help us all the day these people realize their political power cannot shake the establishment. If people are angry enough, no country is above a revolution.
 
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I have a nice goverment job, make decent money and get discounts up the Ying yang. I am personally not effected by the forces of globalization because my job, to date, cannot be automated or exported. So I am not personally getting defensive.

That said, you are too narrow in your scope of vision. This isn't a American thing, this isn't a trump thing. It's popping up all across the western world. Austria nearly elected a anti euro president. The national front is in second in the polls in France. The UK voted for exit. These European countries have social supports and the effect is still the same. Anti establishment forces are growing in strength. Are all of these people lower educated folks who have a history of things being handed to them? Doubtful.

The common theme here is globalization. The ever tightening bonds between nations that don't benifit the people at the bottom. All these trade deals, and in the case of Europe, ever expanding regulations don't help those at the bottom of the social classes. Whole industries are being outsources while the corporate headquarters rakes in the profits. Bombardier is one example, the big 3 automakers is another. These people are not lazy. They worked hard until the jobs they worked hard at moved somewhere else for cheaper labor. Their only fault was not being able to compete with workers who make 3 dollars a hour in other countries.

In england and other places in the EU, a influx of poor citizens from places like Poland drove wages down with the goverment unable to do a thing about it because those were the rules laid out by Brussels.

And while all of this is happening, through experts tell them that it's their fault they are falling behind, that it's just good business sense to leave them in the lurch to go to cheaper places to make cars and planes and everything else. Like you try to imply, that these people are lazy and entitled.

These people are pissed that their governments are embracing policies that harm them and their future prospects. Why should people of Detroit care how well the big three automakers are doing? Most of them make their cars in Mexico these days. Governments took their tax dollars, gave it to the big three who then moved production to cheaper Mexican plants. Are these people living in a city who's main industry has suddenly collapsed care about the experts saying that ford has beaten revenue projections? These experts have screwed them royally and gotten rich doing so.

Globalization has done great things for economic growth, and corporate bottom lines. They have set back, stagnated and destroyed the livelihoods of a great deal of people, and these people have every right to use their political power to rebel against these experts. There has to be a way to help spread the benifits of globalization for everyone, not just corporations and finance ministers. Whether that means passing legislation that a certain amount of manufacturing has to happen in the country that a company is headquartered for it to qualify for tariff free trade or government passing living wage legislation, something has to happen.

Because if not, God help us all the day these people realize their political power cannot shake the establishment. If people are angry enough, no country is above a revolution.

Good post and I agree, something has to give, there has been no advancement or progress to the condition of the middle class in the western world, quite the opposite, it can't continue on the same path forever. Corporations and politicians are playing a very dangerous game at the expense of the people, and those people have had enough.
 
It's people wanting a simpler life. Not everyone is into new technology or reasons why something is or exists.
 
In some industries technology and robotics are bigger factors than globalization.

Just wait until all the truck drivers are canned: http://ot.to

I realize this is inevitable but that's going to go bad before it's the norm. Something terrible will happen and probably because of some idiot, not the technology.
 
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