How would David Brooks respond to this rant? For him to acknowledge its accuracy means he would have to concede that he’s been part of the problem, and conservatives tend to be bad at accepting inconvenient truths (hence his confusion as to why these horrible things are happening). The decision-making of our elected and appointed offici…
How would David Brooks respond to this rant? For him to acknowledge its accuracy means he would have to concede that he’s been part of the problem, and conservatives tend to be bad at accepting inconvenient truths (hence his confusion as to why these horrible things are happening). The decision-making of our elected and appointed officials is severely tainted by the Supreme Court spawned legal fictions like money is speech, corporations are people, and America no longer needs the protections of the Voting Rights Act. Our through-the-looking-glass “democratic” processes allow the oligarchs to con poorly educated Americans by manipulating them with racism as well as the other otherisms, abortion, and guns. With these classic wedge issues, the oligarchs can get enough Manchin-like rent boys elected to persist in doing things adverse to our rights and our communities’ interests.
Finally, what would the Lincoln Project Republicans think about the rant? I believe that they would continue to deny the truths found in Thom’s bulleted history of America’s kleptocratic assholes, regardless of the facts and evidence that proves that they, too, are not part of the solution, even if they do produce clever ads that trash Trump.
How would David Brooks respond to this rant? For him to acknowledge its accuracy means he would have to concede that he’s been part of the problem, and conservatives tend to be bad at accepting inconvenient truths (hence his confusion as to why these horrible things are happening). The decision-making of our elected and appointed officials is severely tainted by the Supreme Court spawned legal fictions like money is speech, corporations are people, and America no longer needs the protections of the Voting Rights Act. Our through-the-looking-glass “democratic” processes allow the oligarchs to con poorly educated Americans by manipulating them with racism as well as the other otherisms, abortion, and guns. With these classic wedge issues, the oligarchs can get enough Manchin-like rent boys elected to persist in doing things adverse to our rights and our communities’ interests.
Finally, what would the Lincoln Project Republicans think about the rant? I believe that they would continue to deny the truths found in Thom’s bulleted history of America’s kleptocratic assholes, regardless of the facts and evidence that proves that they, too, are not part of the solution, even if they do produce clever ads that trash Trump.