Every so often, something reminds me of the horrifying feeling I had at the end of "The Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis. He is a child psychologist with a child client who says, "I see dead people." The Willis character realizes at the film's end that he has been dead for a while. I remember the sensation but not all of the plot.
Every so often, something reminds me of the horrifying feeling I had at the end of "The Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis. He is a child psychologist with a child client who says, "I see dead people." The Willis character realizes at the film's end that he has been dead for a while. I remember the sensation but not all of the plot.
Thom's newsletter reminds me because I'm afraid we have already lost our democracy. In Noam Chomsky's speech of 13 years ago, the "Class War" speech, he discusses countries with a form of democracy with elections, such as the U.S., which doesn't really have democracy. Thom is correct that we need grassroots movements to reverse the oligarchy's power back to the people. We may need several movements that eventually unite. We must think of "class war" instead of "culture war."
Yes Ms. Maloney, as usual you are correct. "Culture war" is an intentional distraction which allows Democratic politicians to claim they are battling for the little people; all the while refusing to take on the wealthy donor class who supports them. It is no doubt noble-appearing to fight for the well being of disadvantaged minorities. But those minorities are only a fraction of all of us who are suffering. It is furthermore easy for the haters to use the tactic of divide and conquer as a response to "culture war." The reification of "cancel culture" proclaimed by the Right is a beautiful example.
Every so often, something reminds me of the horrifying feeling I had at the end of "The Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis. He is a child psychologist with a child client who says, "I see dead people." The Willis character realizes at the film's end that he has been dead for a while. I remember the sensation but not all of the plot.
Thom's newsletter reminds me because I'm afraid we have already lost our democracy. In Noam Chomsky's speech of 13 years ago, the "Class War" speech, he discusses countries with a form of democracy with elections, such as the U.S., which doesn't really have democracy. Thom is correct that we need grassroots movements to reverse the oligarchy's power back to the people. We may need several movements that eventually unite. We must think of "class war" instead of "culture war."
Yes Ms. Maloney, as usual you are correct. "Culture war" is an intentional distraction which allows Democratic politicians to claim they are battling for the little people; all the while refusing to take on the wealthy donor class who supports them. It is no doubt noble-appearing to fight for the well being of disadvantaged minorities. But those minorities are only a fraction of all of us who are suffering. It is furthermore easy for the haters to use the tactic of divide and conquer as a response to "culture war." The reification of "cancel culture" proclaimed by the Right is a beautiful example.