It isn’t just the British political establishment who defend the myth of ‘trickle down economics’
“It was only when I told my Portuguese in-laws about my tax situation and saw the frustration etched across their faces that I understood the unfairness,” Pitney tells me. “My Portuguese family work longer days, earn less and are taxed more.
”Resentment is a feeling harbored by those who, denied the proper response of action, compensate for it only with imaginary revenge.”
-Friedrich Nietzche
That’s what MAGA’s concentration camps are. Resentment camps for imaginary revenge.
White man can’t say racist slur anymore? Compensate with revenge. Can’t sexually harass women anymore? Revenge.
Far right politics is deceptively simple.
Great analysis of how America has ignored authoriatarianism within itself, perhaps fatally, and is now marching to the tune of it no matter the consequences.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4T8jF8BEeCM
#socialstatusanxiety #authoritarianism #resentment #cruelty #maga
The "big, beautiful bill" fulfills JD Vance’s incredibly depressing vision of patriotism
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/big-beautiful-bill-vance-immigration-ice-rcna216161
This unholy bunch is taking the soul out of America. Its whole history is built upon immigration and creating chances... the current hillbilly resentment is attacking everything the USA are. It will be weaker if they are allowed to finish this job. Small and ugly — and, un-American. Rome is about to fall...
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#resentment : the state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined to reflect upon something
- French: ressentiment
- German: das Ressentiment
- Italian: risentimento
- Portuguese: ressentimento
- Spanish: resentimiento
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Do You Want to Be #Famous?
#Fame is scary, with potential for #envy, #ridicule. or #resentment. Is it worth it?
What to do if bullying? Try consistent boundaries
1. do not writhe or waver. (Movement attracts the bully)
2. do not attempt to appease. (Any offer is interpreted as weakness and obtains thrust)
3. flee to a safe position that you could hold with support
4. then stand still. Set limits on how others treat you. Affirm boundaries (The bully will redirect attacks eventually)
5. connect: turn to a trusted person, reach out only to someone you feel well about
6. offer backing, foster, become accomplice, enjoy
"What’s the good of getting angry with a person?"
@Daphne Brandenburg explores this question in her latest publication: "A Philosopher goes to the Therapist" in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2024.18
#OpenAccess, free for all to read!
In the aftermath of hurricane #Milton, decent and responsible people focus on #recovery and #rebuilding what the storm has trashed.
Meanwhile the #MAGA-dominated #GOP focusses on #resentment. You could not make this shit up. #UnitedStates #elections #notfitforoffice #GOPasshats https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/11/florida-in-hurricane-milton-damage
"With army incursions and airstrikes deepening Palestinian resentment, Israel’s violent campaign in the West Bank is driving recruitment for militant groups."
By Fatima AbdulKarim, August 14, 2024: https://www.972mag.com/jenin-tulkarem-armed-resistance-israeli-repression/ @palestine 
Concerns over housing and public services were unifying issues. “Young Dutch people cannot leave home because no houses are available, and the few available are too expensive. Wilders wants to fight the lack of housing by stopping immigration”.
https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/far-right-rural-europe-eu-elections-2024 @supremacy@a.gup.pe
Claiming that they have been "dishonored and disrespected by elite culture" when they haven't been – they've been checked in their claim that God gave this country to them to control – they choose to construe Trump as a divinely sent savior who will avenge them and justify their hate:
"Malice, enmity, resentments: These are the emotions driving many Trump supporters."
Peter Wehner knows his fellow white evangelicals. He's right about this.
Peter Wehner on how Trump and his supporters have "a deep investment in promoting fear" — e.g., in lying about a non-existent crime wave under Biden.
But "for many Trump supporters, then, fear is not so much the cause of their support for the former president as a justification for it. They use fear to rationalize their backing for Trump."
This is, Wehner says, particularly true for Trump's white evangelical supporters.
#Trump #fear #hate #malice #resentment
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/politics-fear-itself-trump-maga/678311/
Above and beyond that, they are deeply inconsistent with claims that one follows Jesus. To brand Christian faith in the US with those words – grievances, resentment, anger, hate — how shameful. How tragic. What a shocking betrayal of the Christian gospels.
And for Donald Trump?!
Perhaps Trump is showing us who white evangelicals have been for a very long time, and what they have been about for a very long time.
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #grievances #resentment #anger #hate
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Their claims about owning the nation because "God" gave it to them are invalid on the face of it. Anyone, any group, pressing such a claim should be told, in a pluralistic, secular democracy that it's an invalid claim.
This is not disrespect. It's speaking truth.
So the grievances and resentment and anger and hate white evangelicals feel, which make them choose Trump, are unwarranted and unmerited responses.
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #grievances #resentment #anger #hate
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Who has "dishonored and disrespected" white evangelicals? When have they been dishonored and disrepected?
When they have informed us that "God" gave this nation into their hands, that they are to control it and the rest of us, and they were told that they are inventing a mythology about the founding of the nation and no religion has the right to dictate laws in a pluralistic secular democracy, were they being disrespected?
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #grievances #resentment #anger #hate
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"And I think when Donald Trump came along he gave voice to that anger and he said, you know, in 2024, too, 'I'm your vengeance. I'm your retribution.' And that I think emotionally resonated with a lot of people. They're really, really angry. There's a lot of hate out there and they feel like this guy is going to do to them what deserves to be done to them."
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #grievances #resentment #anger #hate
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Peter Wehner explains to Tim Miller why white evangelicals continue to be red hot for Donald Trump's return to the White House:
"The grievances and resentments and anger are just pulsating on the American right and within evangelical circles. People felt dishonored and disrespected."
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #grievances #resentment #anger #hate
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