A gift from poor to rich: The new Trump Authoritarianism

 

  Donald Trump's Tower.  New York. May 23, 1993. Photo by Vicente A. Fontelos.

               

 

By Vicente A. Fontelos.

 

What have been a gift from the poor for rich in the Presidential Election 2024? Trump’s Triumph. The new whole world Trump Authoritarianism.

In United States, the poor and the white workers are willing to unite their fortune with upper and middle class whites. 35 percent of the populace thinks that they are or, someday, will stay between the top 1 percent. But what about the other 65 percent, who have no dream that they will ever get that tax cut but still support it?

Anthony Carnevale, when he served as Vice-President for Public Leadership at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) between 1996 and 2003, did a study of 146 of the most selective colleges and universities, and he found that 74 percent of students came from the top 25 percent of the percent the SES –socioeconomic status – data (that is, their parents made over $100,000 per year). And only 3% came from the lowest quartile, while 10% (which is 3% plus 7%) came from the bottom half. So that means that 50% of people in the country pay the extensive state and federal taxes, even though they are among those least well off and are being excluded from the opportunity.

It is not conflict between the working class and elite people. This is a battle of class between riches and pours where they are really creating a social oligarchy. Because it means that a particular act in the people, can be exactly the right thing to do in utilitarian terms and yet leave the man who does it guilty of a ethics and moral wrong. “The innocent man, afterwards, is no longer innocent”, say Michael Walzer. Now, maybe, stupid.

So, we remember, the victorious has been a XXL rich’s size: Donald J. Trump, elected the 47th president of the United States. This should worry all of us.