Here's something else to think about, not my words but I can agree with the meaning :
>We see prissy, stuck-up, wholly self-interested Ivy Leaguers like Ted Cruz (Princeton; Harvard Law), Josh Hawley (Stanford; Yale Law), Ron DeSantis (Yale; Harvard Law) and
much of Trump's inner circle playing good ol' boys,
affecting down-home dialects, and decrying the "elites" on the left who supposedly dominate American business, politics and culture. This would be merely laughable if they weren't also insisting that
religious liberty means that everyone must live by the
retrograde religious dogma they pretend to believe.
The Trumpist cult and other far-right political organizations around the globe continue to profitably press their pseudo-populist game plan of going after elites (often the "educated elites") to inflame and enrage the mind of the common citizen.
When the
phony Wharton grad who reluctantly departed from the White House in January 2021 said
he loved the "poorly educated," they were happy not to take that as an obvious insult. How, exactly, did he intend it? Both as contempt and affection. Any con man keeps a special place in his
black-hole heart for people who cannot, or will not, see how he is hoodwinking them.
While Republican politicians have for decades praised and catered to the needs of oligarchs (as well as the merely wealthy who merely dream of being oligarchs), creating the greatest income disparity since the Roaring '20s, they have simultaneously encouraged working- and middle-class Americans to resent people who went to college and quite likely graduate school and have become specialists in various fields: historians, scientists, journalists, civil servants, elementary school teachers. Somehow, in this demented narrative, those professions are part of an administrative system that thwarts ordinary people's quest for freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Today's
Christian fascists don't ask what Jesus would do; they ask what Viktor Orbán would do. Anti-immigrant "Christians" get a kick out of seeing red-state governors troll the libs by using real human beings as pawns in a
deliberately cruel media spectacle.
As these beliefs begin to spread in cult-like fashion, then teachers, judges, health experts, academics and even members of law enforcement — whom Republicans have always claimed to venerate — become objects of derision, even death threats.<
A lot of nonsense in there. None of those "prissy, stuck-up, wholly self-interested Ivy Leaguers" fit into the politics of those institutions.
Furthermore, that whole message was undercut by the use of those pejoratives. Can you imagine one example where, whoever that author was, would use "prissy, stuck-up, wholly self-interested Ivy Leaguers" in relation to any liberal coming out of those institutions?
No, I think not.
And "Christian fascists".. WTH were you thinking quoting that pile of crap? I can tell you right now that whatever words you would have decided upon would have been a better response because that was one huge pile of crap. Then again, you did choose to quote that and agree with it.
Oh.. and your wish casting for Twitter's failure is another example of derangement syndrome. "Your side" help Twitter and all other social media and you didn't care a lick whether Twitter was successful, whether it made money or what its market cap was. But someone buys Twitter in order to make sure it provides fair access to its form of free speech and now all those business angles mean everything.. furthermore whoever bought it is the latest enemy of the state... clearly a fascist nazi white supremacist..
..and despite buying Twitter to promote free speech, Musk, to your mind, is actually using it to censor the left. Proof of that? It doesn't exist... but if you get enough of your fellow useful idiots to say it... well, that makes it true, doesn't it?
I'll tell you exactly what is going on in USA politics. For decades our choice among presidential candidates did not matter and the parties weren't all that different and the people they offered up were not exactly the best and brightest. I mean, Bush vs Gore? WTH?
But the GOP was the party of business and the DNC was the party of labor.. the working man. Then, I think beginning with Clinton defeating the first George Bush, Chicago-style socialist politics infested the DNC. Remember, Hillary was a Marxist Saul Alinsky disciple and she was born of Chicago politics. When she was in the White House they got FBI files on everybody and kept them in the White Hosue. Filegate. The DNC is still there.
And as for the GOP.. well, is it the party of big business anymore? Not really. Sure, some businesses like oil who are a target of the left.. they have no choice but support the opposition. But practically everyone else, Wall Street, High Tech, they have move to the DNC. Why?
Hint: It is not because teh DNC is enlightened and good vs the GOP is evil.
No, it is because of the Tea Party movement. The Tea Party was about good government. Spending less. Taxing less. Getting more value for your tax dollars. Now that scared the crap out of all those industries that rely on the flow of dollars from taxpayers, though government coffee, then into their coffers.
This is something that liberals and DNC complained about for decades and decades. That the GOP, then the party of big business, served big business and not the people. But now that it is DNC politicians doing it.. and collecting all those donations from big business.. it is perfectly fine.
Furthermore, the DNC can sell the business interests on teh idea of achieving one-party rule. I think it was 1992 when Bill Clinton beat Bush that I first saw pundits predicting the GOP would become a permanent minority party. They pointed to that win plus changing demographics where we would become a minority white nation by, I think it was predicted 2050 at the time. But then the 1994 midterm changed that with Newt Gingrich becoming speaker.
So this wish casting of effective one-party rule was put on hold. But came back again and again since then. And this is why, I think, you see the border crisis. The Dems are trying desperately to achieve that one-party rule as quickly as possible with so many like Pelosi being so old. They want it NOW. They are not just predicting it... living with what comes.. they are actively trying to achieve it by whatever means necessary.
Now, I think it is so important to them because of personal self-interest. Like the Bdens.. so many are corrupt. They have cashed in on their political careers and if they maintain control of the all the workings of government then they can protect themselves and their heirs.
And big business? Which is now huge conglomerates that encapsulate the media and "journalism" as we know it today... well, the Tea Party influenced GOP was not a sure bet... but the corrupt DNC is, The DNC is now the party of Wall Street.
Tip O'neill.. with great effort.. is spinning in his grave. Daniel Patrick Moynihan as well.
MADHAT.. you are being used. And when that single-party rule is achieved.. you will not like the end result. And of course, by then, saying you do not like the end result.. aka single party rule... will put you in jail. And that is why you should be applauding Musk and stop being a tool of the DNC.
