In Twentieth-century America:
"That a despairing working class - largely abandoned by its traditional allies on the academic and political left - would turn to a strongman for succour and to balm their resentment and bitterness at being left behind and adrift. "At that point, something will crack. The non-suburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking for a strongman to vote for - someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots," As long as "the proles can be distracted from their own despair by media-created pseudo-events, including the brief and bloody war, the super-rich will have little to fear." ~ Richard Rorty, 1999
"That a despairing working class - largely abandoned by its traditional allies on the academic and political left - would turn to a strongman for succour and to balm their resentment and bitterness at being left behind and adrift. "At that point, something will crack. The non-suburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking for a strongman to vote for - someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots," As long as "the proles can be distracted from their own despair by media-created pseudo-events, including the brief and bloody war, the super-rich will have little to fear." ~ Richard Rorty, 1999
