MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Why black Joe Biden supporters in SC remain loyal, despite his record on race
By artappraiser on Fri, 07/05/2019 - 9:42pm |Found retweeted by Maggie Haberman (which reminded me that she was once an on-the-bus campaign reporter):
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https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/election/article231926968.html
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Biden suggests nominating 68 year old to Supreme Court. Perhaps Joe just ain't that smart...
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5d1fa3afe4b04c481413d2dd
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/06/2019 - 2:17am
Every time he opens his fucking mouth he says something I hate. I'd vote for Sanders before I'd vote for Biden.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 07/06/2019 - 3:11am
If Trump doesn't win re-election, and if Biden gets nominated and does, and if Republicans are not still in control of the senate (in which case they will likely not approve any Dem nomination) and if this imaginary Democrat run senate doesn't counsel Biden to nominate someone 20 years younger and if Biden nominates Garland anyway, that would be dumb.
Of course, the worst damage would be Trump is re-elected. A lefty socialist open border baby killer Dem, a lightweight newbie, a 'mouthy' woman (any woman in politics is mouthy to WWC( see below) except GOP ones who suck up to Trump) or a gay, ain't going to win the electoral college, the critical swing states where the uneducated angry "white working class" reigns supreme.
by NCD on Sat, 07/06/2019 - 12:43pm
If if if if...the Supreme Court still exists in its current form....ya never can tell...who woulda though Donald Trump would become president instead of leading his fans and Fox News and a GOP Senate into stymying every single thing President Hillary tried to do?
P.S. My favorite reminder for self as well as everyone else: he's not going away until he gets seriously ill or dies. He will tweet from exile or jail if need be. If impeached or not re-elected, he will still be there. And the fans of Trump will still be there. Thinking that they will magically disappear somehow and everything can go back to what it was "before Trump" is thinking as faulty as they do. On the other hand, one must also remember his wild-card-ness, for want of a better description, driven by narcissism. Still, the populist/nativist thing is a worldwide phenomenon which is also being pushed by Russia and its trolls, not going away quickly.
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/06/2019 - 2:48pm
Yes, the fans don't go away in leadership cults. Even with millions dead and the nation in ruins
I have posted this before.
Written in 1946 by Swedish Count Bernadotte, who was particularly well versed on the Reich's last days, as he was there in the final 4 months of 1945 negotiating the release of thousands of concentration camp survivors out of the Reich to neutral Sweden as the regime increased it's mass executions znd murder and with death marches of starved inmates. Nazi leaders hoped Bernadotte could help them negotiate a cease fire on the western front.
He wrote:
A large part of the population clung sentimentally to their Fuhrer right up to the end...They could not bear to lose their faith in him who had appeared to them as a mass redeemer. Nor could they give up their belief in the justification of the Hitler program." Last Days of the Third Reich, Count Folke Bernadotte
by NCD on Sat, 07/06/2019 - 4:24pm
Argues that "c'mon man!" is his real campaign slogan. Not just another silly campaign article, though there's some of that., it also gets into the linguistics of it, it's use in sports world, etc.:
I thought this graph particularly interesting, is something I myself did not note before but I see it now that is how Obama tried to ameliorate some of his "elite" qualities:
If it hits with just a few enough voters that feel sting from "elites", often turning just a minority of them is all you need to win.
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/06/2019 - 5:17pm
Don't have a cow, man. We're all Homer now.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/06/2019 - 5:54pm
I just ran across this from January about Corbyn because I was looking at J.K. Rowling's twitter feed (pointed there by Stephen King's twitter feed, believe it or not, cause I went there looking to see if he was quipping about Pence and NH) Anyhew, the guy writing it is an actor, and Rowling is a massive mass audience storyteller, and I think it is sort of addressing similar memes, how you reach "them" which he purposely names "the aspirational working class" (making clear it's psychological as much as economic), and opines it's not like you are doing it, Mr. Corbyn:
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/06/2019 - 7:10pm
The thing about the busing issue is akin to abortion - like no sensible person *wants* an abortion or chemotherapy, except as a solution to a worse problem. Yet here we are in 2019 having discussions as if busing was like hip-hop parties and free healthcare, and as if the busing issue wasn't already largely dead and buried in the dustbin of the 70's-90's.
Who's proposing busing now as the big solution to racial inequality and failing schools? uh, like no one. This has been more of a cudgel of a purity test than a real policy dispute.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/07/2019 - 4:30am
It got to be an issue only because Biden used it as a historical example of being willing to make sausage with even the worst of the worst elected to Congress, as one is supposed to do in a representative democracy. In effect, it's now being used just like culture warring is, to distract to an issue where everyone's got a gut opinion. The point of Wolraich and others is that Biden often picks bad memes like this, doesn't think it out. He could have picked another example that was savvier, where it wasn't so inflammatory, didn't bring up old wounds and divisions still healing to no good end. He brings it up, Harris feels she has to defend it to express her principles, and for the umpteenth time politicians are talking about what they believe instead of what they can do for the voter and how.
Edit to add: I read about his "apology" and seems to me it's a case of his aides just convincing him it was a poor choice of topic. He still believes what he said. And as this SC article shows, lots of older black people get it, they were also there at the time. Just a bad example to bring up for those that don't get how the civil rights fight worked in the past.
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/07/2019 - 11:31am
You know, if he'll listen to his aides that's a step in the right direction. Yes, we work across the aisles to get things done, and the crime bill for one was largwly ato good faith effort, but the Hyde Amendment or a government shutdown aren't exactly bipartisan accomplishments to brag about. AOC finding some common ground with Ted Cruz seems more positive, or when the Brady Bill passed...
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/07/2019 - 12:16pm
There's a new problem, tho, well stated by a political scientist. Biden may or may not get this?
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/07/2019 - 12:58pm
Trump may be stronger because he acts so stupid. A lot of people seem to like it. Think of the TV sitcoms you never thought would survive, yet they did, for years. That's Trump. And you always wondered who watches these? Republicans. Think I'll write a political splainer.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/07/2019 - 1:44pm
PP: on watching TV and populism @ The Atlantic!
The More You Watch, the More You Vote Populist
A new study ties consumption of entertainment television in Italy to support for Silvio Berlusconi.
JUL 6, 2019 by Yascha Mounk
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/07/2019 - 11:27pm
Italians, waddaya expect?
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/07/2019 - 11:50pm