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> white supremacism has enjoyed profound resurgence and evangelicals constitute a huge bulk -- up to half -- of the population. There has definitely been a res

by slibhb 5y ago

> white supremacism has enjoyed profound resurgence and evangelicals constitute a huge bulk -- up to half -- of the population. There has definitely been a resurgence in people using the term "white supremacy". Whether that is tied to a resurgence of white supremacy is doubtful. The statement that up to half the population are evangelicals is just wrong.

Clubber 5y ago
It's amazing to me how much political capital is spent on this sort of thing. Meanwhile, we are no closer to anything like universal healthcare, or even lowering the medicare age. The wealth gap is expanding, and jobs are still being sent overseas. Housing is getting more expensive, inflation is wiping out any wage gains, and healthcare is even more obscenely expensive. But hey, we may or may not have identified some additional white supremacists. This analogy just hit me. It's as if people who get into this trap are like addicts. They are spending all their political capital (money) on heroin (rage culture) and not spending political capital on feeding themselves or their families (healthcare, jobs, wages, UBI, etc). All the while, the machine keeps on enriching themselves at our expense. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, we keep tilting at the windmills the elite class convinces us are actually dragons. The GOP will probably take the house and/or the senate, effectively neutering Biden. Expect 2 years of retaliatory impeachment hearings to distract everyone from our goals. The D's had two years of power and almost nothing to show for it, except maybe higher blood pressure.
- nostromo 5y ago
  Giant corporations love identity politics. It completely distracted the left from expensive things that would actually help low-income people. Big corporations woo the left with BLM retweets and pride flags -- which costs them $0 -- while utilizing the global poor stuck in grueling jobs with low pay. It's so convenient I wonder if it's intentional. Getting pressured to unionize from the left? Just retweet BLM, name an arena Climate Pledge Arena, and then move on.

by slibhb 5y ago

Clubber 5y ago

It's amazing to me how much political capital is spent on this sort of thing. Meanwhile, we are no closer to anything like universal healthcare, or even lowering the medicare age. The wealth gap is expanding, and jobs are still being sent overseas. Housing is getting more expensive, inflation is wiping out any wage gains, and healthcare is even more obscenely expensive. But hey, we may or may not have identified some additional white supremacists. This analogy just hit me. It's as if people who get into this trap are like addicts. They are spending all their political capital (money) on heroin (rage culture) and not spending political capital on feeding themselves or their families (healthcare, jobs, wages, UBI, etc). All the while, the machine keeps on enriching themselves at our expense. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, we keep tilting at the windmills the elite class convinces us are actually dragons. The GOP will probably take the house and/or the senate, effectively neutering Biden. Expect 2 years of retaliatory impeachment hearings to distract everyone from our goals. The D's had two years of power and almost nothing to show for it, except maybe higher blood pressure.

nostromo 5y ago
Giant corporations love identity politics. It completely distracted the left from expensive things that would actually help low-income people. Big corporations woo the left with BLM retweets and pride flags -- which costs them $0 -- while utilizing the global poor stuck in grueling jobs with low pay. It's so convenient I wonder if it's intentional. Getting pressured to unionize from the left? Just retweet BLM, name an arena Climate Pledge Arena, and then move on.