How America Fractured into Four Parts

By artappraiser on Wed, 06/09/2021 - 5:09pm |

By George Packer (long form, for their July/August issue)

This. Is. Excellent. https://t.co/ezk84LPA0C
— Chloé S. Valdary (@cvaldary) June 8, 2021

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/george-packer-four-americas/619012/

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another thing, and this one's not just American:

In America and much of the Western world, education is replacing income as the major cleavage in politics. This has big implications for the future of public policy and populism.https://t.co/IRXgOFvOfw
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 9, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 06/09/2021 - 7:38pm

Halfway through - good read.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/09/2021 - 8:43pm

4 excuses for skipping vaccine

I thought this was VERY smart. https://t.co/Zkt0SDMTvP
— Malcolm Gladwell (@Gladwell) May 19, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/10/2021 - 6:25am

sometimes simple analogies are helpful, tho:

Who shook the jar? pic.twitter.com/Gzm26UTopH
— Sue Perkins (@sueperkins) June 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 06/10/2021 - 3:30pm

Who shook the fake David Attenborough quote?

When Cabeza de Vaca washed up on the pristine Florida panhandle in 1500 or so, what did the kind spirited natives do? They put him to work as a slave, and then he escaped to another group who out him to work as a slave, and so on.

The Aztecs retreated to their garbage island in a swamp to perfect their form of hate if the other, and then came out badass style and started conquering all the tribes around with particularly ghastly measures.

Of course when people aren't being their natural shit selves, life can shekbthe jar with disease, earthquakes, drought & time of want, cold snaps, lots of tormenting bugs (yes, including fire ants), locusts, what ever.

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/10/2021 - 5:08pm

Meanwhile in Africa... pic.twitter.com/zjcKqnm07p
— Hamal Jay (@JayHamal) June 8, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 06/10/2021 - 10:43pm

Thomas Edsall retweeted this:

Ruy Texeira, of ‘Coming Democratic Majority’ fame, warns his fellow Dems to back away from unpopular woke causes (like Critical Race Theory) and stick to the popular economic stuff https://t.co/cl6gz7Lw95 pic.twitter.com/DXrtiEbvKg
— Eric Kaufmann (@epkaufm) June 12, 2021

as well as retweeting the Geo. Packer/Atlantic article

by artappraiser on Sun, 06/13/2021 - 4:18am

Cenk Uygur pumping one divide:

[....] “OK so first of all, Democratic establishment: They lie nonstop and they are incredibly weak. So they say ‘well, progressives, oh my god, golly gee, if you just come a lot further down the road, and you just keep giving us every vote that we want, later we'll do what you want. You're our cherished beloved colleagues,’” he said during an appearance on Hill.TV’s “Rising.”

“And then, unfortunately some of the — just Democrats have made the mistake of believing them, and then the minute they turn around after they get their votes, they punch 'em in the face. They're not your colleagues, they're not your friends,” he added.

Uygur said that “corporate Democrats” are not on the same team as progressives.

“But when progressives ask for something they never, ever get it. So progressives, I got news for you and I think that they're on to this now because they're fighting very hard on the infrastructure bill: Those corporate Democrats agree with corporate Republicans. They are not on your team. They're on the exact opposite team,” he said [....]

from Young Turks founder on Democratic establishment: 'They lie nonstop' @ TheHill.com, June 17

by artappraiser on Sat, 06/19/2021 - 10:39pm

How America Fractured into Four Parts

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