tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post5526689895955341270..comments2024-03-28T18:59:21.172-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Bernie surrenders to Biden's comparative advantage - fake Nazi hunting - against his class-first appealagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-89421097563993129302019-06-24T06:39:24.352-04:002019-06-24T06:39:24.352-04:00Thought you would enjoy this editorial. I am amaze...Thought you would enjoy this editorial. I am amazed it's in the USA Today of all places. It looks like something straight out of the blogs I read.<br /><br />https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/06/23/democratic-party-civil-war-donald-trump-column/1525623001/Jay Finknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-20717553376794605052019-06-22T23:49:26.303-04:002019-06-22T23:49:26.303-04:00The big Problem is that boomers are desperately tr...The big Problem is that boomers are desperately trying to get us into a shooting war overseas before the economy can properly realign/contract. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-9574059550356940022019-06-19T16:31:15.869-04:002019-06-19T16:31:15.869-04:00“He hasn’t lost one inch of his fired-up insane ba...“He hasn’t lost one inch of his fired-up insane base,” Moore said.<br /><br />https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/06/19/michael-moore-asks-the-left-are-you-ready-to-take-on-trumps-insane-base/<br /><br />Even Moore has lost the plot Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-18025292509304188482019-06-15T12:16:58.821-04:002019-06-15T12:16:58.821-04:00If you really want to blow minds (and create cog. ...If you really want to blow minds (and create cog. dis.), remind "conservatives" that Soviet Russia did not promote sexual re-assignment culture or gay porno. <br /><br />Thriving red-light districts, sex shows, cavalier attitudes toward drugs, gender bending, etc. peaked in the early 20th century, after several decades of Social Darwinist policy. The mid-20th century was not perfect, by any means, but Silents and Boomers constantly exaggerate the terror of Jim Crow, the horrors of exclusionary immigration policy, and the shock of commies tearing down churches in order to cynically elevate the post-1970 period that's been controlled by Silents and Boomers (with GI elders begrudgingly permitted to have ceremonial status in the 70's and 80's before they fully retired from public life).<br /><br />Much as how minorities and hedonists must've exalted the 1910's while ordinary people felt besieged, we now have normies who refuse to buy the idea that the present era is supposed to be an improvement compared to the 1950's and 60's.Ferylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01336057631877941839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-32133951493716834592019-06-14T13:11:44.145-04:002019-06-14T13:11:44.145-04:00"And here is the point. It is no exaggeration..."And here is the point. It is no exaggeration to state, that not only did FDR’s agenda improve the lives of millions of Americans, but the New Deal was enormously popular politically and helped defeat far-right extremism."<br /><br />This is so egregious I'm having a hard time slogging through the rest of this thing Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-90113403296133240642019-06-14T05:35:22.340-04:002019-06-14T05:35:22.340-04:00Socialism will never materialize until the left co...Socialism will never materialize until the left converts the moderates and conservatives over cultural issues.<br /><br />"You guys want a more wholesome social and cultural pattern? You want the 1950s back? Well, we need the same material basis of that society, and social solidarity. To get the culture of the 1950s, we need the economy of the 1950s."<br /><br />Or on the other hand, "If you're so wedded to individualist competition and Social Darwinism in the economic realm, don't complain when you get the same degenerate culture as the fin-de-siecle, the last time that kind of economy prevailed."<br /><br />But most leftoids, just like most rightoids, are idealists these days -- believing that politics and economics is downstream from culture, like Andrew Breitbart said. Neither the left nor the right believes that the 1950s culture was driven by the economic structures of the time. They don't believe that for the present era, or for the Gilded Age either.<br /><br />The two realms are entirely separate, somehow it's all a coincidence that laissez-faire in the economy always goes hand-in-hand with laissez-faire in the culture, while heavy state regulation occurs in both realms concurrently.<br /><br />Even if right-wingers thought it was the wholesome family structure of the 1950s that determined the New Deal economic structures, that would still commit them to accepting the New Deal economy (or further socialist), assuming they truly want a return of those kinship patterns. Regardless of which causes which, the high correlation remains.<br /><br />Some of them are just bullshitters who want contradictory patterns -- a wholesome family pattern with a Social Darwinist economy. But the bulk of moderate or conservative voters for whom family life is so important, are not hardcore Ayn Rand cultists. If seeing a return of Leave It to Beaver means a return of Big Labor unions, well, so be it.<br /><br />Most leftoids are mortified by that correlation, though, and would prefer not to mention it, even though it would convert huge swaths of the population to socialism. Cultural libertinism is in its outcomes anti-socialist.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-72847410046434049202019-06-14T05:19:31.510-04:002019-06-14T05:19:31.510-04:00Related thoughts from Angela Nagle and the Red Sca...Related thoughts from Angela Nagle and the Red Scare ladies on the latest episode:<br /><br />https://soundcloud.com/red-scare-727066439/woke-capitalism-w-angela-nagle<br /><br />They also attribute Bernie's shift to a demand-side pressure. Leftoids are too libertarian, anti-state after 1968.<br /><br />Sensible left libertarians like Chomsky have been trying for ages to get the left to see that giant corporations require a giant government to tame them, and that anti-gov attitudes in the present only serve to further unshackle the corporate tyrannies.<br /><br />That wasn't hard for me to understand when I was first exposed to it back in college.<br /><br />The main hang-up that leftoids have had since the New Left is cultural laissez-faire uber alles. That requires a heavy anti-government commitment, since one of the main things government does other than regulate the economy is regulate social-cultural affairs.<br /><br />The left is too wedded to cultural laissez-faire, and therefore economic laissez-faire, since opposite moral systems are not going to co-exist just because economics and culture are conceptually separate. Most people don't treat them as separate realms to be governed by opposing norms.<br /><br />The only way forward for socialism is to target those who want a consistent approach to econ and culture -- but who are pro-regulation in both domains, favoring greater order rather than greater chaos, in contrast to the libertarians who are anti-regulation in both domains.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.com