ext_61111 ([identity profile] shooting2kill.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] gilda_elise 2019-12-29 10:07 pm (UTC)

I know little about Trump and wouldn't presume to know anything about the motives of people who voted for him. I was speaking from my own perspective here in the UK where London has effectively become a city-state, far removed from the concerns of people who live elsewhere. I think a lot of the disdain and scepticism (can't spell that) which England has for the metropolitan London elite is rooted less in the ideas and values of this elite but more in the way the elite presents itself (without meaning to or realising) as being pretty obnoxious: intellectually snobby, very hypocritical, materialistic and with very little understanding of the problems of the average, low paid worker, for whom worries about popular social concerns are a luxury and irrelevant. Maybe in the US Trump gets this?

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