"So, what are Democrats and people of good will to do? I have three suggestions to dial back white male America’s embrace of political and racial violence, and with a sufficiently large electoral majority all three can be pursued simultaneously."
That list needs to be expanded. There should be direct attacks on Fox as purposefully fake and as NOT news but rather vile propaganda, along with other right-wing sources. There should be open hostility toward Republicans who refuse to challenge racism and misogyny and their billionaire enablers. There should be a campaign against superstitious and anti-science, anti-rational religious fanatics who think like ignorant children of a cult and refuse to deal with this life as responsible adults while imagining a glorious eternal afterlife in some imaginary place. And there most definitely must be a complete rejection of authoritarian conditioning and obedience training by state-sponsored authority figures via forced attendance in schools which discourage intellectual growth and development and compel participation in mind-numbing indoctrination and exercises designed to narrow perspectives and vision by substituting Pablum and sanitized standardized common rotten-to-the-core curricula. Democrats and liberal/progressives will either proudly and defiantly own and defend our beliefs and rational cognitive processes, or we will go the way of the dinosaurs.
Women are supposed to be the "fragile" ones, but as usual the burden of keeping things together is on them. Time for equal pay AND equal responsibility.
Ego and a demand for recognition is not a good look for anyone, regardless of gender. My vote is going to go to people who are there for "the people" not for some elevated position that will enable them to steal through insider trading and bribes.
TRump's Republicans just keep doing everything they can to generate more hatred. Friends, neighbors, and family need our love more than ever. See you in the streets.
You got it partially right on this one. But there's much more to the story including the role of American Nazi fascists in everything from Natzi Germany to perpetual wars globally, the assassination of JFK, the purposeful browning of America to create division and hatred and justify national security surveillance agencies and tactics. Please watch this documentay to get the full story.
I was thinking about what Democrats would need to do (it would only be Democrats; Republicans would refuse to collaborate) to restore a powerful democracy. There would have to be a detailed plan--call it Project 2029--to evict corporate influence from government, beginning with setting the table for protracted battles in the courts. That means pouring resources into a reform-minded DOJ and stocking Federal courts with progressive judges.
“Of all 535 members of Congress, who’s taken the most money from associates of Jeffrey Epstein?” the narrator asks in Mr. Brown’s first TV ad, which began airing on Friday.
I think it is fair to question Thom's assertion that masculinity has been reduced by reliance on wives to keep the household together. Doubtless, there are many families living P2P that could not sustain their standard of living without dual incomes. However, based on my own experience, I think that in the majority of cases women are working because they find it gratifying and fulfilling. It feels good not being somebody else's dependent.
Dad was an electrical engineer, and Mom taught school. They married in 1940. Both had BAs. When I popped out in 1947, Mom quit working. Then they adopted my sister in 1949. Mom did not return to work until 1957. She did not return to work because we were going broke, but with us kids in school all day - mom could raise our standard of living. They bought a bigger 3BR house and a 2nd car.
Back in my childhood, the middle class was huge. Half of my friends' moms worked, not because they had to, but because they wanted to. At age 10, I joined the workforce for more toys. I pulled weeds for an old lady up the street. Then, at age 12, I started mowing lawns and shoveling snow for extra cash. At age 16, I got a weekend & summer gig as a busboy so I could own a car. At 21, I got a job as an insurance investigator to pay off my college debt by graduation. I did not need to work. I chose to - just like mom. Most of my pals worked too.
Thus, I think it is reasonable to conclude that the increased presence of women in the workplace was likely not to stave off hunger, but rather because society was changing so that women were no longer "dependents." That notion is validated by the increase in divorce rates. Thus, misogyny was likely more a result of workplace competition with men. Surely, that did humble men who lost out on promotions to women. It was easier to blame their failure to promote on gender or racial favoritism than accept that the sexes were equal. The GOP hate factory surely did find that promoting favoritism helped many white men justify their hatreds by supporting a political view that white men are eugenically superior to all..
Trump and his regime have normalized violence, claiming it is the prerogative and monopoly of the state.
Now where else in time have we heard the same?
Last Friday Bill Maher expressed outrage that people compare Trump to Hitler, but they wouldn't do that if it weren't so appropriate.
No one compares him to Bugs Bunny, because the comparison would be ridiculous, but the comparison to Hitler is very appropriate thus valid
It is appropriate and necessary to compare Trump to HItler.
Totally agree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g73kKLts95U
Bugs cuts the cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K6eYf2rojQ
"So, what are Democrats and people of good will to do? I have three suggestions to dial back white male America’s embrace of political and racial violence, and with a sufficiently large electoral majority all three can be pursued simultaneously."
That list needs to be expanded. There should be direct attacks on Fox as purposefully fake and as NOT news but rather vile propaganda, along with other right-wing sources. There should be open hostility toward Republicans who refuse to challenge racism and misogyny and their billionaire enablers. There should be a campaign against superstitious and anti-science, anti-rational religious fanatics who think like ignorant children of a cult and refuse to deal with this life as responsible adults while imagining a glorious eternal afterlife in some imaginary place. And there most definitely must be a complete rejection of authoritarian conditioning and obedience training by state-sponsored authority figures via forced attendance in schools which discourage intellectual growth and development and compel participation in mind-numbing indoctrination and exercises designed to narrow perspectives and vision by substituting Pablum and sanitized standardized common rotten-to-the-core curricula. Democrats and liberal/progressives will either proudly and defiantly own and defend our beliefs and rational cognitive processes, or we will go the way of the dinosaurs.
Women are supposed to be the "fragile" ones, but as usual the burden of keeping things together is on them. Time for equal pay AND equal responsibility.
Ego and a demand for recognition is not a good look for anyone, regardless of gender. My vote is going to go to people who are there for "the people" not for some elevated position that will enable them to steal through insider trading and bribes.
TRump's Republicans just keep doing everything they can to generate more hatred. Friends, neighbors, and family need our love more than ever. See you in the streets.
If we have an election, women are a majority.
AI: Recent reports show that women's wealth is growing at nearly double the rate of men's, outpacing them for four consecutive years.
You got it partially right on this one. But there's much more to the story including the role of American Nazi fascists in everything from Natzi Germany to perpetual wars globally, the assassination of JFK, the purposeful browning of America to create division and hatred and justify national security surveillance agencies and tactics. Please watch this documentay to get the full story.
https://youtu.be/niTwvtokYf0?si=grDQ559vT6lJWKHf
I was thinking about what Democrats would need to do (it would only be Democrats; Republicans would refuse to collaborate) to restore a powerful democracy. There would have to be a detailed plan--call it Project 2029--to evict corporate influence from government, beginning with setting the table for protracted battles in the courts. That means pouring resources into a reform-minded DOJ and stocking Federal courts with progressive judges.
First get control.
Ohio (Sherrod Brown) commercial:
“Of all 535 members of Congress, who’s taken the most money from associates of Jeffrey Epstein?” the narrator asks in Mr. Brown’s first TV ad, which began airing on Friday.
“Jon Husted, that’s who.”
Plenty of fodder here for campaigning Democrats interested in addressing matters even more noble and compelling than the price of gasoline.
I think it is fair to question Thom's assertion that masculinity has been reduced by reliance on wives to keep the household together. Doubtless, there are many families living P2P that could not sustain their standard of living without dual incomes. However, based on my own experience, I think that in the majority of cases women are working because they find it gratifying and fulfilling. It feels good not being somebody else's dependent.
Dad was an electrical engineer, and Mom taught school. They married in 1940. Both had BAs. When I popped out in 1947, Mom quit working. Then they adopted my sister in 1949. Mom did not return to work until 1957. She did not return to work because we were going broke, but with us kids in school all day - mom could raise our standard of living. They bought a bigger 3BR house and a 2nd car.
Back in my childhood, the middle class was huge. Half of my friends' moms worked, not because they had to, but because they wanted to. At age 10, I joined the workforce for more toys. I pulled weeds for an old lady up the street. Then, at age 12, I started mowing lawns and shoveling snow for extra cash. At age 16, I got a weekend & summer gig as a busboy so I could own a car. At 21, I got a job as an insurance investigator to pay off my college debt by graduation. I did not need to work. I chose to - just like mom. Most of my pals worked too.
Thus, I think it is reasonable to conclude that the increased presence of women in the workplace was likely not to stave off hunger, but rather because society was changing so that women were no longer "dependents." That notion is validated by the increase in divorce rates. Thus, misogyny was likely more a result of workplace competition with men. Surely, that did humble men who lost out on promotions to women. It was easier to blame their failure to promote on gender or racial favoritism than accept that the sexes were equal. The GOP hate factory surely did find that promoting favoritism helped many white men justify their hatreds by supporting a political view that white men are eugenically superior to all..