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The success of persecution

moat — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 01:32:43 +0000

In reply to Where have you been, PP? I

The success of conservative persecution politics owes much to its depiction of measures to end prejudice and institutional racism as existential threats to those who benefited from the previous arrangement.

As long as the change can be sold as a cage match in a zero sum game, then the conflict will be like World War One where the trenches got deeper and longer each day to avoid the sweeping lines of fire from the machine guns above.

The Right does not take any responsibility for this state of affairs. It looks like the solution will have to start from some other place.

Alt-wingnut. Why won't they

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 06:47:11 +0000

In reply to We need a new narrative to

Alt-wingnut. Why won't they let us into the club? We have our neuroses too...

ETA - think I misunderstood your comment at first - yes, we need some way to neutralize or counter or somehow co-opt their victimology back to ours or back to the real issues.

Easier said than done.

We live in a 'democracy'

NCD — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:47:16 +0000

In reply to White is the new Black

We live in a 'democracy' where the Party that controls all 3 branches of government lost the national vote by a large margin. The Senate can be controlled by 17% of the population, who live in rural states and who are by and large uneducated, angry, fearful and broke. Easily manipulated as a result,.....and also rabid consumers of internet fake news purveyed by a new breed of fact destroying ideology spreading grifters, and also addicted to hate radio indoctrination and Faux News. Which Roger Ailes ran not only to spread lies, innuendo and a warped ideology but also used for years to assuage his huge sexual appetite. He now works for our next President.

These Republican voters are the people for whom facts and figures and logic used to disprove their core beliefs, just end up strengthening their belief.

The Democrats are led by a trio of near 80 year olds, and the race card Trump played is southernizing the white votes in the upper Midwest.

If the Democrats can preserve public schools, Social Security, and Medicare from being sent to the chopping block to Wall Street by the GOP we can be thankful. The prospects for single payer or other progressive policy happening anytime in the near or intermediate future seems nil.

We need a new narrative to

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 17:23:00 +0000

In reply to First they came for Grandma,

Yeah, they should write a Greek tragedy about me/us.

PS We need a new narrative to counter right-wing persecution mythology.

First they came for Grandma,

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 17:04:35 +0000

In reply to Where have you been, PP? I

First they came for Grandma, and I didn't say anything. Then they came for Christmas, and I didn't say anything. Then they came for homosexuals, and I didn't say anything. And by the time they came for my Rick Astley collection, there was no one left to stand up for me.

Like a lone sentinel sending out a warning signal on a cold winter's night, you've been a far-seeing Cassandra heralding perils to come, but like the original sadly ignored in your own time, even at 1 pence bargain basement prices. If only I could dig up Grandma, I would, but sadly it seems it's too late. How do we go on from here?

Where have you been, PP? I

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:50:01 +0000

In reply to White is the new Black

Where have you been, PP? I wrote a whole book about this phenomenon in 2010. Buy it at Amazon for the low-low price of one-cent (plus shipping).

Militant homosexuals and secular humanists persecute Christians, welfare and affirmative action discriminate against white people, political correctness violates the first amendment rights of conservatives. Right-wing appropriation of civil rights language has been going on for decades. I call it "persecution politics."