Why no mention of the polling data on Democratic fascistic attitudes towards unvaccinated Americans? 45% of Democrats said they would favor governments requiring citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. 48% supported fining or imprisoning those that questioned the vaccine. That’s pretty messed up.
This article rightfully calls out GOP fascistic tendencies, but seems to ignore Democratic fascistic tendencies.
Of all the books I've read in my effort to understand our divisions the most helpful was "The New Class War" by Michael Lind, a conservative who, by my lights, does a good Marxist analysis of what's going on. This is a class war in which the PMC over time, with and without premeditation has diminished working class power.
Progressives who would like to write off 21 million people as morally irredeemable would like to avoid looking at NAFTA, treaty deals, MLMs scams that mostly burn people without means, the Opioid crisis.....
Racism is the preferred narrative for understanding these people. And there's plenty of that to go around. However, to me, status and race are interwoven in complicated ways. People who never gave a thought to their race and status were unnerved by Obama's election.
The possibility that the hidden "wage" of race would be rescinded, that the unending supremacy that had taken for granted would disappear mobilized them.
But underneath that fear is something deeper. And that is the valorization of certain skill sets above others. People who work with words and numbers are disproportionately rewarded and other skill sets are devalued which leads to a self-esteem deficit, a feeling that if you didn't have these skills or interest in developing those skills you were a loser. That's just not tenable place to be.
To me....that's the real rock in their shoe. They can't feel good about who they are and what they do in a society that doesn't have enough sense not to insult the people that make their lives possible.
Norman: Try to think positively. The fewer Republicans who wear masks and are not vaccinated, the fewer Republicans will be voting in the next election. Floyd
Why no mention of the polling data on Democratic fascistic attitudes towards unvaccinated Americans? 45% of Democrats said they would favor governments requiring citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. 48% supported fining or imprisoning those that questioned the vaccine. That’s pretty messed up.
This article rightfully calls out GOP fascistic tendencies, but seems to ignore Democratic fascistic tendencies.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/jan_2022/covid_19_democratic_voters_support_harsh_measures_against_unvaccinated
Of all the books I've read in my effort to understand our divisions the most helpful was "The New Class War" by Michael Lind, a conservative who, by my lights, does a good Marxist analysis of what's going on. This is a class war in which the PMC over time, with and without premeditation has diminished working class power.
Progressives who would like to write off 21 million people as morally irredeemable would like to avoid looking at NAFTA, treaty deals, MLMs scams that mostly burn people without means, the Opioid crisis.....
Racism is the preferred narrative for understanding these people. And there's plenty of that to go around. However, to me, status and race are interwoven in complicated ways. People who never gave a thought to their race and status were unnerved by Obama's election.
The possibility that the hidden "wage" of race would be rescinded, that the unending supremacy that had taken for granted would disappear mobilized them.
But underneath that fear is something deeper. And that is the valorization of certain skill sets above others. People who work with words and numbers are disproportionately rewarded and other skill sets are devalued which leads to a self-esteem deficit, a feeling that if you didn't have these skills or interest in developing those skills you were a loser. That's just not tenable place to be.
To me....that's the real rock in their shoe. They can't feel good about who they are and what they do in a society that doesn't have enough sense not to insult the people that make their lives possible.
Norman: Try to think positively. The fewer Republicans who wear masks and are not vaccinated, the fewer Republicans will be voting in the next election. Floyd