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Political Correctness gets a bloody nose

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Dickson Igwe

The advent of Donald J. Trump is a middle finger to globalisation and political correctness. It is also a return to the politics of social class, racial division, and anti migration. Is progressivism a going against the grain of what people really are? Is nationalism a natural feature of human kind? Are human beings not parochial and xenophobic by nature? Can these so called “negative traits” be reversed by better education, exposure to a global culture, and media influence?

Many argue: of course not. They state that the human being remains a fearful creature who needs, walls, guns, and an enemy to fight. He needs to belong to a tribe. He feels better when he is among his own.

Now, political correctness appears to be a going against the grain of who the human being is at his or her core. Political Correctness is an attempt to place minority opinions over the values and norms of the majority. Progressivism is a liberal culture that has been pushed by global elites that has received a bloody nose this late 2016.

The politically correct are a chosen tribe. They possess a “superiority complex.” Theirs is the better ideology and belief system. The politically correct are intolerant of the concerns of those who do not “buy” their liberal views and progressive ideas.

A male toilet is a male toilet and a female toilet is a female toilet. However, for the politically correct, if I am a man, and decide to myself, that I am a woman, then I can amble into any female toilet, and that should be OK.

Elites do not have to worry about migration from peoples who do not share a tolerant value system that places the human being, and his and her dignity, at the center of life. Western elites usually live in migrant free zones that tend to be wealthy and white.

Refugees and economic migrants tend to settle in poor working class areas of towns and cities, especially in Northern Europe. Hence, the outcry against migration from the working class demographic. This is an anti migrant sentiment that is driving Europe into the clutches of right wing politicians and their quest for a new nationalism that places white interests first.

Another thing: the politically correct see discrimination in everyone else. Call the politically correct person’s ideas invalid and unacceptable and you become a “prejudiced bigot.” A great man once said that a fool only knows his own view.

In both the USA November 2016 Presidential election and the Brexit referendum, the politically correct and the liberal elite acted in an insulting, derogatory, and superior manner, towards the poor and working classes. The poor were uneducated deplorables. They were racist bigots. They were the “stupid white people.”

OK. Elitism is always bad politics. When a group of people backed by the elite establishment begin to act like they were born to rule, that establishment “better watch it.” History is littered with the carcasses of establishments that became estranged from the “the small people.”

The majority, whether it is the white American middle class, the working classes of England, or the black natives of the Caribbean, that majority have a right to their own values, cultures and identities. The politically correct have failed to understand that. There is always a balance to be struck, even here in these majestic Antilles between the obligation to welcome strangers and the rights of the majority demographic, and culture.

OK. Famed UK Columnist Simon Jenkins has said that the ideas of left and right have become ambiguous in modern politics. That is an interesting assertion that requires greater thought. In both the USA and the UK, working class voters- usually the base of the Democrats and Labour- the so called left of center progressive parties- have voted for right wing types.

Liberals have been thrown off the cliff called “Moral High Ground” into the abyss of “political perdition.” It will take a long time for the liberal left to crawl its way back up. Nationalism is on the rise once again. Globalisation driven by open borders and free trade is on the ropes and taking a savage beating.

Paul Krugman is a Nobel Peace Prize Winner. He is the Intellectual Guru of the American Left. He is the King of Left Wing Liberalism. Krugman has lamented that he cannot fully understand this resentment of elites. And there is a paradox here.  

Krugman, his Nobel Peace Prize winning counterpart Joseph Stiglitz, and a host of celebrity economists preached about the dangers of wealth inequality for many years, especially after the Great recession of 2007. And now that the chasing dog has caught up with the speeding car, Krugman states that he cannot understand the hostility of the working class? Has Krugman forgotten his own antecedents on the dangers of social inequality in his Column in the New York Times?

Jenkins has asserted that in the new Age of Trump “there is no longer a left wing and a right wing.” There are today just nations and tribes. Both nation and tribe prevail over the idea of globalisation. Trump appeals to the alienated white working classes in the US. Trump is the poster boy of the anti politically correct.

But Trump demeans ethnic minorities. He speaks very carelessly about women, gays, migrants, and Muslims. The Liberal left on the other hand is very guarded and dare not upset the minority demographic.

Yes. Trump is the avenging angel for the white working man who is the one demographic liberal types can talk down to, abuse, and insult. Trump is playing on white anger and he is doing it very successfully. He is the tool of working class anger, resentment, and revenge.

Jenkins describes these white working classes as living in small towns. These towns have been decimated by outsourcing and free trade. They are found in Rust belt Country.

The battered white worker has lost his livelihood. He gazes out at the far off cities that sit on acres and acres of prosperity. These are cities that are globalised and digitised. They are places occupied by mostly college educated liberals. The white working classes are on the outside looking into the global bubble which they have been banished from.  

But with every action is there not reaction. History teaches us this. You pull the rubber sling in one direction. When it is released it is propelled in the opposite direction with the same force that it was stretched. That appears to be a rule in life.

Political correctness and its global ideology was pulled in one direction by the western establishment for decades creating a 1% possessing stupendous wealth off the backs of white working men and women who began to be looked down upon.

However, these white workers were once termed the “greatest generation.” They were the men and women who built the USA, and then exported industrialisation throughout the western hemisphere. However, the great corporations they built turned around and kicked the worker in the teeth. The owners of these businesses were able to use digitisation and technology to export working class jobs to Asia, where labour costs were “dirt cheap.” This enriched the wealthy subset that owned and managed these businesses.

It sent the working and lower middle classes into perdition.  

Today, the sling shot is firing in the opposite direction, and not to the favour of the elites and professionals who drive the globalised process. What irony!

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