Welcome to the racist, misogynous , anti-democracy faction that has seized control of today’s GOP and their media cheerleaders: How long will they hold onto their power over the entire party?
Thom, thanks for reintroducing the best frame ever created to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. Specifically, we need to label the good guys as our citizens who are entitled to collaborate with our government to get our general welfare promoted properly and label the bad guys as the factions which do things adverse to our rights and our communities’ interests (I’m paraphrasing Madison’s quote). The important factions (the oligarchs and morbidly rich that control our government’s decision-makers) are the most destructive forces that humans have ever visited upon Earth’s creatures, and they have amassed their power by taking over the authority and powers of our government. Basically, the big factions are not subject to governmental oversight because they decide how our government’s “checks and balances” will work. The lesser factions (grifters, polluters, and their ilk) just take advantage of the big factions’ influence and regulatory captures like poop-starved bacteria that follow dung beetles around, making them trivial opportunists compared to the uber factions.
The oligarchs pay their propagandists to manipulate our poorly educated with fear and hate. That buys them about 30% of the vote because they are convinced that the conflict over the future of our democracy is 100% Americans (the good guys) vs. everyone else (the bad guys). In other words, they believe the good guys are those of us who have Anglo Saxon lineage (or some other northern European white guy place) vs. everyone else (otherisms go here). We need to seize the labels, frame, and messaging to make it so everyone understands that all of our citizens who are not engaged in faction-type behavior are the good guys (and the victims), and the bad guys are the factions. We just need a critical mass of citizens to accept that the people who are demonized and dehumanized so that our poorly educated will vote for the factions’ candidates are not the enemy, the factions are.
Unfortunately all of this is true. It is equally true that you and much of "progressive" media have been apologists for a Democratic Party that is rudderless and inflicting significant harm on the American people with its acquiescence to corporate America and its petrifying fear of narratives pushed by Republicans and corporate media. Their and your political expediency have helped to put us in this precarious position.
So, nothing new. Rich white people, mostly men, are freaking out over Black power and woman power reaching into the highest levels of governance -- true power, even over rich white men. The horror!
This latest episode of "Republicans Gone Wild" once again provides a wonderful opportunity for America's unabashed racists and misogynists to broadcast proudly to the world from their perch on "a shining city upon a hill" their utter lack of scruples, conscience, and just common human decency, all the while preaching false religion to the rest of us. Hypocrisy on steroids, mostly testosterone.
Yes. Nothing, absolutely nothing has been done (at least that we know of) to reign in the number 1 threat to the US (white-nationalist factions within) since Trump lost the election. Our intelligence and law enforcement agencies assessed this threat years ago, so... What's the hold up? Unless there's a Manhattan Project level-of-secrecy initiative in the works to break these cells, networks, and financiers - well, here comes the iceberg.
I would say the #1 threats to the US are the health care crisis, climate change and the threat of World War III, but I suppose our analysis depends on the echo chambers we inhabit. While white nationalism is certainly a threat, I would say its presence within a police force that Democrats refuse to defund (I know, just mentioning it lost another election) and a military that Democrats are eager to fund is a bigger threat than the sad victims of their own echo chamber who Thom likes to mock.
Barry, you nailed it. Thom is known the world over for his incessant mockery. Good on you for reminding me. I don't inhabit any chamber, much less an echoey one. I'm truly sorry you've found yourself residing in such a noisy place. If you ever get out maybe we can find a quiet place to talk.
Republicans don't all think alike, but they tend to think in binary terms; they don't do nuance. Things are good or evil; it's all very cut and dry. The most qualified person should get the job. It causes them to come to some really absurd conclusions, and that last thing about who should get the job is one of them.
Biden's determination to appoint a black woman for The Court is logical. It isn't logical to think that there is ONE supremely (pardon the pun) qualified candidate that is the "best". People just don't come in "best" or "worst" when it comes to jobs. Higher grades, better test scores, and more degrees don't always translate into what someone brings to a team. There are many, many judges qualified for this seat.
Thom, thanks for reintroducing the best frame ever created to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. Specifically, we need to label the good guys as our citizens who are entitled to collaborate with our government to get our general welfare promoted properly and label the bad guys as the factions which do things adverse to our rights and our communities’ interests (I’m paraphrasing Madison’s quote). The important factions (the oligarchs and morbidly rich that control our government’s decision-makers) are the most destructive forces that humans have ever visited upon Earth’s creatures, and they have amassed their power by taking over the authority and powers of our government. Basically, the big factions are not subject to governmental oversight because they decide how our government’s “checks and balances” will work. The lesser factions (grifters, polluters, and their ilk) just take advantage of the big factions’ influence and regulatory captures like poop-starved bacteria that follow dung beetles around, making them trivial opportunists compared to the uber factions.
The oligarchs pay their propagandists to manipulate our poorly educated with fear and hate. That buys them about 30% of the vote because they are convinced that the conflict over the future of our democracy is 100% Americans (the good guys) vs. everyone else (the bad guys). In other words, they believe the good guys are those of us who have Anglo Saxon lineage (or some other northern European white guy place) vs. everyone else (otherisms go here). We need to seize the labels, frame, and messaging to make it so everyone understands that all of our citizens who are not engaged in faction-type behavior are the good guys (and the victims), and the bad guys are the factions. We just need a critical mass of citizens to accept that the people who are demonized and dehumanized so that our poorly educated will vote for the factions’ candidates are not the enemy, the factions are.
Unfortunately all of this is true. It is equally true that you and much of "progressive" media have been apologists for a Democratic Party that is rudderless and inflicting significant harm on the American people with its acquiescence to corporate America and its petrifying fear of narratives pushed by Republicans and corporate media. Their and your political expediency have helped to put us in this precarious position.
So, nothing new. Rich white people, mostly men, are freaking out over Black power and woman power reaching into the highest levels of governance -- true power, even over rich white men. The horror!
This latest episode of "Republicans Gone Wild" once again provides a wonderful opportunity for America's unabashed racists and misogynists to broadcast proudly to the world from their perch on "a shining city upon a hill" their utter lack of scruples, conscience, and just common human decency, all the while preaching false religion to the rest of us. Hypocrisy on steroids, mostly testosterone.
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Religion/John%20Winthrop.htm
Yes. Nothing, absolutely nothing has been done (at least that we know of) to reign in the number 1 threat to the US (white-nationalist factions within) since Trump lost the election. Our intelligence and law enforcement agencies assessed this threat years ago, so... What's the hold up? Unless there's a Manhattan Project level-of-secrecy initiative in the works to break these cells, networks, and financiers - well, here comes the iceberg.
I would say the #1 threats to the US are the health care crisis, climate change and the threat of World War III, but I suppose our analysis depends on the echo chambers we inhabit. While white nationalism is certainly a threat, I would say its presence within a police force that Democrats refuse to defund (I know, just mentioning it lost another election) and a military that Democrats are eager to fund is a bigger threat than the sad victims of their own echo chamber who Thom likes to mock.
Barry, you nailed it. Thom is known the world over for his incessant mockery. Good on you for reminding me. I don't inhabit any chamber, much less an echoey one. I'm truly sorry you've found yourself residing in such a noisy place. If you ever get out maybe we can find a quiet place to talk.
Republicans don't all think alike, but they tend to think in binary terms; they don't do nuance. Things are good or evil; it's all very cut and dry. The most qualified person should get the job. It causes them to come to some really absurd conclusions, and that last thing about who should get the job is one of them.
Biden's determination to appoint a black woman for The Court is logical. It isn't logical to think that there is ONE supremely (pardon the pun) qualified candidate that is the "best". People just don't come in "best" or "worst" when it comes to jobs. Higher grades, better test scores, and more degrees don't always translate into what someone brings to a team. There are many, many judges qualified for this seat.