Marvel’s Hulk, Mark Ruffalo, thinks capitalism will kill us till we elect millionaires ‘like us’

Mark Ruffalo has come out as a Bernie Sanders supporter and thinks that as a substitute of electing evil billionaire capitalists like Trump, what we actually want are leaders ‘like us,’ and by that he means millionaires like Mark Ruffalo.

The late Andrew Breitbart as soon as stated that the breakdown of the studio system was what actually turned Hollywood to the left. Los Angeles has all the time been a “queer” metropolis in a straight nation however when the movie moguls ran issues, when the previous white dudes had been in cost, they saved the craziness of the expertise in verify. They compelled them to behave in accordance with a backside line as a substitute of regularly shifting faddish ideologies. However with that system lengthy lifeless and gone the inmates at the moment are working the insane asylum, and each election cycle all of us should undergo by their makes an attempt at political relevance.

And Mark Ruffalo has shockingly come out in favor of the candidate furthest left in America, Bernie Sanders. I say ‘surprising’ with all of the sincerity of Captain Renault when he came upon there was playing happening in Casablanca. I feel most individuals assumed Ruffalo was a Bernie Bro. That is form of like Hamas tweeting out that they’ve acquired an issue with this complete Israel factor.

Nevertheless it’s extra than simply an anticlimactic candidate endorsement this time. No, Ruffalo is asking for an outright American Revolution which needs to be sending ‘woke’ celebrities like Colin Kaepernick into triggered suits. In spite of everything, his Instagram is solely devoted to proving that the American founding was all about slavery. However PC snowflakes apart possibly Ruffalo is true. Possibly we do want radical earth-shattering change.

However is Bernie actually that radical a change? Ruffalo thinks that what actually makes this nearly 80-year-old man such a sizzling ticket is that Bernie is rather like us. Trump after all isn’t like us, he’s nothing just like the widespread man. Positive, he eats at McDonalds and might’t keep off social media however except for that he’s principally the Marie Antoinette of his technology telling the homeless that they will all the time keep at a Trump resort if it will get too chilly on the streets.

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The retort to my sarcasm is “Ah, however Trump is a billionaire!” You’ve acquired me there. Being a billionaire does put one out of the class of ‘us.’ Most of us don’t truly know any billionaires, however come to think about it I don’t know any millionaires both. If the argument to your favored political candidate is how related he’s to us then it issues vastly what you imply by ‘us.’ If by ‘us’ Ruffalo means folks like himself, effectively sure Bernie is like ‘us.’ As a result of Ruffalo and Bernie are each multi-millionaires.

If we squint very exhausting possibly these of us who’re toiling away within the smoky proletariat basement of the Titanic can see the distinction between Bernie, Ruffalo, and Trump. However actually the more durable I look, the extra all three simply appear like a self-referential ‘us’ making the remainder of us look much more like a ‘them’ by comparability. When your first individual plural excludes extra folks than it contains you aren’t constructing a revolutionary coalition, you’re simply reinflating your sterilized bubble.

Bernie isn’t precisely a commoner. That is the person who instructed the New York Instances: “I wrote a best-selling guide. In case you write a best-selling guide, you could be a millionaire, too.” As Forbes identified this sounds downright Trumpian. Ultimately, it’s all a bit too paying homage to Orwell’s satirical Animal Farm. All animals are equal however some animals are extra equal than others. Ruffalo and Bernie share an equality denied to the remainder of us.

By John Lee Reed, an American Conservative who focuses on cultural and political commentary

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