I am interested in what kinds of spontaneous public celebrations break out in the case of a sudden terminal event and how long they go on for. And the reaction from those who think they are in mourning for a hero. However he dies, we know there will be robust demand for a “Democrat” conspiracy to explain it.
Actually not sure I buy the "all about the racism" story. Was appeasement in Weimar Germany all about the racism? Partly sure, but partly also about a fear of communism. Which we seem to have now too, even if in our current context it seems a lot less realistic. And some of the reaction is just about stupidity and inertia. The idea of a candidate who should legitimately be barred by the 14th amendment is surprising, novel, unusual simply because it hasn't happened since the 14th amendment passed. And people are dumb and don't absorb novelty quickly. I have a lot of Israeli friends who have told me with not a little jealousy that we in the US have a stable democracy that won't fall apart as quickly as theirs is. Why do they believe that? Because ours has lasted a long time and not fallen apart yet. People are bad at understanding change. Trump is genuine change as opposed to the incremental kind of most normal politics. Pundits may be particularly bad at it, because they make a living pretending normal incremental change is more exciting and dramatic than it actually is. And sure racism and white supremacy are an important part of US politics and a particularly important part of the Trump agenda and a big part of why Trump is genuine change and not incremental change. So maybe I'm just saying it might be as much an implicit denial of the importance of white supremacism as an implicit valuing of white supremacist biases.
I think in the US that it's hard to untangle people's intuitive ideas about what is right and orderly and legitimate from their investments in whiteness. There's a reason that (for example) the 1st and 2nd amendment are seen as more legitimate, foundational, and respectable than the 14th, and it's not just about which came first.
It seems like going back at least a hundred years, anticommunism always seems to have a racist or xenophobic angle - maybe not in China or Korea, but certainly anywhere white folks dominate
TOUCHÉ....again!!!! So what are the odds The Supremes will buy into this and actually enforce the Constitution properly and save American Democracy????? And will this have any carryover / positive effect on the pundits ?
And , yes, your cursing in that post was impressive and effective!
Hell yes. This a completely non-ideological truth. Trump is a bully. His followers are bullies. Bullies SUCK. Everyone needs to get together and stand up to bullies whenever and wherever they arise.
Anyone enabling a bully is a fool. You are just next on their list.
Unfortunately, most people are not as smart as the teens in movies.
What annoys me so much sometimes about edgy intellectual people is they think the analysis has to be original to be worth paying attention to. These fundamentals are rejected as too simplistic. Sometimes things ARE simple.
Democracy has to disable the power of people who refuse to abide by the rules necessary for democracy to function.
Bullies can't be persuaded, they can only be stopped.
I understand the fear our democratic tools can be used for undemocratic purposes but FFS you can't worry about this so much you don't use the tools!!!
I most certainly find it easy to agree with you on all counts; with that being said I would like to suggest that perhaps one of the reasons so many, whether pundits or diner-Volk, take sides with Trump is for a much more base reason, namely the simple emotional appeal of the seeming freedom that Trump appears to have to be a bombastic, combative, freely offensive public speaker without fear of consequences or push back.
I can easily imagine that many of the aforementioned envy the creature's unrestrained utterances and wish that they too could be so blunt, crass, and uncaring.
Like Frankenstein's monster dead on the inside, blithely unaware of their insensitivities.
If all he did was utter words, it wouldn't much matter. His actions, not his words, appeal to those US voters. They want to act like him, not talk like him.
My own qualms about states removing trump from the ballot have nothing to do with whether he deserves to be on it given the 14th, whether people will be violent, whether "true Americans" are actually racist. It has to do with what the Extremes will do to the issue. I'm afraid they will come up with definitions of insurrection and "engaged" so narrow as to make the paragraph useless. Now all we can do is wait.
I cannot wait for the day when the only story about tangeranus is that he died in prison today.
I am interested in what kinds of spontaneous public celebrations break out in the case of a sudden terminal event and how long they go on for. And the reaction from those who think they are in mourning for a hero. However he dies, we know there will be robust demand for a “Democrat” conspiracy to explain it.
I for one will be spontaneously publicly celebrating I can tell you!
Actually not sure I buy the "all about the racism" story. Was appeasement in Weimar Germany all about the racism? Partly sure, but partly also about a fear of communism. Which we seem to have now too, even if in our current context it seems a lot less realistic. And some of the reaction is just about stupidity and inertia. The idea of a candidate who should legitimately be barred by the 14th amendment is surprising, novel, unusual simply because it hasn't happened since the 14th amendment passed. And people are dumb and don't absorb novelty quickly. I have a lot of Israeli friends who have told me with not a little jealousy that we in the US have a stable democracy that won't fall apart as quickly as theirs is. Why do they believe that? Because ours has lasted a long time and not fallen apart yet. People are bad at understanding change. Trump is genuine change as opposed to the incremental kind of most normal politics. Pundits may be particularly bad at it, because they make a living pretending normal incremental change is more exciting and dramatic than it actually is. And sure racism and white supremacy are an important part of US politics and a particularly important part of the Trump agenda and a big part of why Trump is genuine change and not incremental change. So maybe I'm just saying it might be as much an implicit denial of the importance of white supremacism as an implicit valuing of white supremacist biases.
I think in the US that it's hard to untangle people's intuitive ideas about what is right and orderly and legitimate from their investments in whiteness. There's a reason that (for example) the 1st and 2nd amendment are seen as more legitimate, foundational, and respectable than the 14th, and it's not just about which came first.
It seems like going back at least a hundred years, anticommunism always seems to have a racist or xenophobic angle - maybe not in China or Korea, but certainly anywhere white folks dominate
It's been conflated with Judaism since about ten minutes after Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher came off the press in 1844.
TOUCHÉ....again!!!! So what are the odds The Supremes will buy into this and actually enforce the Constitution properly and save American Democracy????? And will this have any carryover / positive effect on the pundits ?
And , yes, your cursing in that post was impressive and effective!
You can bet $CROTUS will side with tangeranus all day every day. So many people are still in denial.
it seems pretty unlikely that they will uphold colorado or maine. still, it's nice to see him squirm.
Love the lesson from teen movies.
Hell yes. This a completely non-ideological truth. Trump is a bully. His followers are bullies. Bullies SUCK. Everyone needs to get together and stand up to bullies whenever and wherever they arise.
Anyone enabling a bully is a fool. You are just next on their list.
Unfortunately, most people are not as smart as the teens in movies.
What annoys me so much sometimes about edgy intellectual people is they think the analysis has to be original to be worth paying attention to. These fundamentals are rejected as too simplistic. Sometimes things ARE simple.
Democracy has to disable the power of people who refuse to abide by the rules necessary for democracy to function.
Bullies can't be persuaded, they can only be stopped.
I understand the fear our democratic tools can be used for undemocratic purposes but FFS you can't worry about this so much you don't use the tools!!!
I most certainly find it easy to agree with you on all counts; with that being said I would like to suggest that perhaps one of the reasons so many, whether pundits or diner-Volk, take sides with Trump is for a much more base reason, namely the simple emotional appeal of the seeming freedom that Trump appears to have to be a bombastic, combative, freely offensive public speaker without fear of consequences or push back.
I can easily imagine that many of the aforementioned envy the creature's unrestrained utterances and wish that they too could be so blunt, crass, and uncaring.
Like Frankenstein's monster dead on the inside, blithely unaware of their insensitivities.
If all he did was utter words, it wouldn't much matter. His actions, not his words, appeal to those US voters. They want to act like him, not talk like him.
My own qualms about states removing trump from the ballot have nothing to do with whether he deserves to be on it given the 14th, whether people will be violent, whether "true Americans" are actually racist. It has to do with what the Extremes will do to the issue. I'm afraid they will come up with definitions of insurrection and "engaged" so narrow as to make the paragraph useless. Now all we can do is wait.