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SanDiegoBuffGuy wrote:We will miss you.

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Jeff wrote:Meanwhile, Glenn Beck gets away with endorsing the work of a Nazi sympathizer and Pat Buchanan's treated like an elder statesman.

This isn't about the Jews, it's about the Left.

chiggerbit wrote:

What Elizabeth was witnessing was the aftermath of Communism. The Soviet Jews had torn down Russian churches.

I'm finding a strong correlation between strong anti-communism sentiment and antisemitism. Why is that?

Jeff wrote:Meanwhile, Glenn Beck gets away with endorsing the work of a Nazi sympathizer and Pat Buchanan's treated like an elder statesman.

This isn't about the Jews, it's about the Left.

Bruce Dazzling wrote:
What, exacty, did you mean by saying that this is "about the Left," Jeff?

I'm NOT endorsing the Tea Party, as such, I'm just saying that they ARE representing a lot of people's anger at being dispossessed by the corporotacracy, and as such, are marginalized at every turn.

Jeff wrote:

I'm NOT endorsing the Tea Party, as such, I'm just saying that they ARE representing a lot of people's anger at being dispossessed by the corporotacracy, and as such, are marginalized at every turn.

And patriotic, know-nothing populism is a channel of dissent dug by the Corps of Engineers.

...The “common sense”— unschooled instincts imparted by upbringing and inherited ideology—of people in this country is individualist and self-reliant. You see rage expressed through polls and in the media, but, like I said, it’s mostly formless. Sometimes it’s directed at bankers, but sometimes it’s directed at immigrants and the government.

...It’s usually petit bourgeois, directed against both the rich and the poor, often against urbanity—in both senses, the citified and the intellectually polished—and against bigness itself. It often posits a virtuous past of a competitive, self-reliant small-scale capitalism that has been usurped by corporate internationalists, and assumes that even if such a thing had ever existed, it would be desirable to return to that insular world.

...The U.S. reminds me in many ways of a startup company that’s grown so big that it needs a serious overhaul but is incapable of the necessary transformation. In the corporate example, you frequently see that the founders don’t want to turn things over to professional managers. They want to keep running the show on instinct and animal spirits. But those aren’t working anymore.

So too the U.S. The dog-eat-dog model of social Darwinism worked well (on its own terms) while the U.S. was growing rapidly in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but since growth slowed down in the 1970s, we’ve been in need of a rethink of the old model. But we’re incapable of it. Instead, we’ve tried ever more reckless applications of debt to keep things going.

Jeff wrote:

Bruce Dazzling wrote:
What, exacty, did you mean by saying that this is "about the Left," Jeff?

Because demagogues on the American Right are daily saying much worse without vilification and job loss, and one voice on the American Left always seems one too many.

I'm NOT endorsing the Tea Party, as such, I'm just saying that they ARE representing a lot of people's anger at being dispossessed by the corporotacracy, and as such, are marginalized at every turn.

And patriotic, know-nothing populism is a channel of dissent dug by the Corps of Engineers.

Jeff wrote:...patriotic, know-nothing populism is a channel of dissent dug by the Corps of Engineers.