/lit/ - Literature

>>20399723
The man is faker than an instagram thot's ass.

Can't think of anything about the rural poor, but The Road to Wigan Pier by Orwell is still relevant when it comes to the urban working class.

>>20399734
he's still less fake than that fetterman asshole in pennsylvania who wears hoodies and has tattoos even tho his dad is an ultra wealthy insurance executive.

>>20399734
How exactly is he fake?

>>20399754
He isn't. He just makes leftists seethe for kindly requesting that proles actually practice personal responsibility.

>>20399775
this kind of thing was the beginning of my break with leftism. i was a super marxist in college, and one day i was chilling with a marxist professor from the english department, going to a protest or a conference or something, and they were talking about how we can't expect working class people to do stuff like complete school or not do drugs or not have kids at a young age etc. like it was some kind of caste determinism, but i guess cuz i'm white she just assumed i wasn't working class, and i just remember thinking "you would never let YOUR kids behave like that, why are you withholding the key to your middle class success from them?" i stayed marxist for a couple more years, but that was the first time my mind was like something isn't right here

>>20399723
Go away, Thielbot

>>20399723
Wendell Barry likely

>>20399826
>son of a lawyer and fanatical anti-coal activist
nope.

>>20399723
Spengler

>>20399723
>Criticized and opposed Trump harshly while he was running for president
>Called him "immoral and absurd"
>Trump gets elected
>Vance runs for Senate
>Pulls a complete 180 and says Trump is a great president
>Claims to be a "populist"
>Backed by a billionaire
American politics are a bad joke.

>>20399723
Get real Anon

>>20399775
The Hillbilly Elegy phenomenon was about the privileged elite wanting to be reassured that poor people deserve their suffering and Vance sold it to them for a fortune.

>>20399958
The "elite" are completely correct.

>>20399723
kys

>>20399877
>Criticized and opposed Trump harshly while he was running for president
>Called him "immoral and absurd"
>Trump gets elected
>Vance writes a book to explain rural populism to elites to capitalize on the post-election attention
>they eat it up
>actual rural Appalachians say he's full of shit
>ride the meal ticket until Trump leaves office
>Vance runs for Senate
>Pulls a complete 180 and says Trump is a great president
>Claims to be a "populist"
>Backed by a billionaire
Filled in the middle.

Why do Americans worship their politicians when it's clear they are all careerist whores who will do and say anything for a dollar

>>20400260
Because it's all sports.

>>20399723
He married a Hindu lady, which goes to show he's actually very very smart and the rest is just an act.

>>20400294
The multiracial brahmin class

>>20400260
hey man dr. oz is totally standing up for the working class red blooded american

>>20400319
Hey, show some respect for a man who had a very successful television show.

>>20399723
Never read Vance but everyone should read Lasch.

I'd rather Republicans elect a guy who wrote an actual book (that isnt some ghostwritten vanity piece like Trump's books or crude sensationalism a la Coulter/D'Souza) than someone like Tommy Tuberville (ex football coach, Alabama senator), Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Green who are all unironically on the same intellectual tier as trailer park dipshit rednecks.

>>20400319
I like the Chinese state media people tasked with reporting on America being like "what the fuck?" They're just confused.

Christoper Lasch, Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy has surprisingly good discussion of the rural vs. urban conflict

>>20400260
Because it's the inevitable result of mass democracy.

What an absolutely dogshit political system. Socrates in the Republic is completely right about democracy. It does nothing but cause confusion and encourage demagogues. I wish America was an aristocracy.