• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    In recent years, television personality Mike Rowe has amassed a wildly popular following due to alleged working-class straight talk about topics ranging from the affordability of college to reasserting a culture of pride in craftsmanship and labor. From his 5.2 million Facebook followers to his cable programs, his everyman schtick, on its surface, can be very appealing: after all, who doesn’t love a hard day’s work and loathe detached, ivory tower eggheads?

    But hiding under his superficially appealing blue-collar façade is dangerous ideology, one funded by the Koch Brothers and other far-right, anti-labor corporate interests and specifically tailored to pick off a certain constituency of Home Depot Democrats while pushing political impotence, anti-union narratives and anti-intellectualism. Through a clever combination of working class affectation and folksy charm – often exploiting real fears about a decline in industrialization – Rowe has cultivated an image that claims to be pro-worker, but primarily exists to line the pockets of their boss.

    Our guest is Street Fight Radio’s Bryan Quinby.

    https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/citationsneeded/CN64_20190130_rowe_quinby2.mp3?dest-id=542191

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      of course the Koch brothers involved, its either Koch, OR putin funded.

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        Thats why EVERY SINGLE MENTION of “Soros!” has to be immediately responded with “Kochs”

        Edit: fick thus gpddamn jryboard