“So there is no equivalence or symmetry between the ways that the right and left make claims of counterfeit victimization. Broadly speaking, progressives have identified with victims and fought to defend and care for them. Modern conservatives like Trump and Carlson, however, are basically propagandizing when they position themselves and their audiences as injured parties in order to justify anti-democratic and xenophobic measures aimed at seizing, holding and expanding their power. Their aim isn’t to defend victims, but to stir up a mob that they hope will get rid of the democratic norms that currently provide some restraint against their political aims.”
False equivalence is the poison that will end America. The right is working for monied interests but saying they are working for the people. The left is also in many ways working for monied interests but mostly draws the line at the critical balance point of the social safety net. Mostly is all we got.
It is never talked about on corporate media that the left need only shift honestly on a very limited number of issues, and they would win all elections. All of them. But “they” will not do it and they will not discuss it. Why is that? Even a limited shift on Borders, Guns, and Gender– and the democrats would win everything all the time. But nobody in the media will say one thing about this. My view is that “corporate” is the key term. Monied interests on both sides manipulate the media to evade taxation and regulation. That is what is pulling the puppet strings, that is the wizard behind the curtain. The mixed economy, or “imbedded liberalism”, that gave America the richest middle class in the history of the world can now only be found in the “Nordic Model”, in those few Scandinavian countries that have the happiest and most prosperous populations on Earth. That train left America with the Reagan Revolution. Those few countries have kept their progressive taxation, unions, universal health care, and free tuition while we essentially cut the taxes that pay for all of that. We the people have invested those redirected dollars into offshore accounts, fleets of private jets, mega yachts, and 100,000-acre ranches…for a few billionaires. It is unraveling and the right is trying to take power permanently while they have a short window of opportunity due to demographics.
History is now rhyming with interwar Germany with the rich playing on culture war issues to put their people in power. The simple greed of the relatively tiny billionaire class could very well resurrect Fascism and what ultimately comes with it…genocide.
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