Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
Yves right here. As many Bare Capitalism readers know effectively, the Democratic occasion has turn into the instrument of the skilled managerial class and the tech/monetary elites. The concept it could take a real curiosity within the needs of bizarre folks of any stripe, even ones they should win over like independents, is sort of a stretch. So the query then turns into whether or not the Democrats can snooker them and get them to come back out and vote, or hope that continued citizen apathy and their presumed demographic benefit over time provides them sufficient wind at their again to remain their present dangerous course. Amongst different issues, it appears presumptuous for the Dems to behave as in the event that they personal the Hispanic vote (that very perception exhibiting a failure to acknowledge that “Hispanics” should not a monolithic group).
By Thomas Neuburger. Initially revealed at God’s Spies
“I don’t care who folks vote for so long as I get to decide on the candidates.”
—Boss Tweed, who didn’t thoughts saying who’s in cost
The Obvious State of the Nation
Think about this comparatively innocuous chart:
Bespeaks a “divided nation,” doesn’t it? A nation roughly cut up between two warring teams — the Democratic Occasion’s house owners, paid system and media, and the mass of voters they aim; and the Republican Occasion’s house owners, their ecosystem, and their very own focused voters.
In each circumstances, the primary two occasion teams — the house owners; their ecosystem and media — have nearly all of the management. They select the candidates, largely, or curate who you get to selected amongst, which quantities to the identical factor. (See Boss Tweed’s quote above.)
The controllers additionally select the place the cash goes. All these donations gleaned from mailers and articles like this, “The Republican Party is now the most dangerous threat in the world”, and this, “Chuck Schumer’s Embrace of Mobs Is a Menace to Constitutional Democracy”; all these billionaire {dollars}; each dime that flows into occasion and lobbyist coffers; all of it goes to occasion operatives to manage.
Should you’re a goal of this messaging, as most of us are, you seemingly suppose one of many statements above is true, and end up glad to destroy the evil depicted. You could even be factually proper.
However that apart, we nonetheless seem like a nation divided, liberal “left” towards conservative “proper.” The chart above confirms these ebbs and flows. A commonplace knowledge, a given, a “what everyone knows.”
The Precise State of the Nation
Now think about a unique graph depicting roughly the identical information:
Should you have been requested to infer from the chart above what’s actually the divide within the nation, what would you say?
What does the info say? Does it say that because the seminal, disaster election of 2008 (my purple line above), when each side claimed to face on the aspect of the folks, and one side was believed…
…does it say that the betrayals of 2009 and later have divided the nation, not between “left” and “proper,” however between those that nonetheless really feel a part of the occasion system, and those that don’t?
One pattern of these betrayals might stand for all of them:
Do they suppose we will’t see these items? Do they suppose its victims haven’t any reminiscence?
As Krystal Ball explains explains here and in second paywalled piece, most of those “independents” are youthful voters, millennials and Gen-Z, who, naturally unaffiliated of their youth, have stayed unaffiliated longer than their dad and mom, and even their older siblings. They’ve additionally stayed extra disillusioned.
I’m not writing right this moment about proper versus fallacious, and even proper versus left. I’m writing concerning the nation and its actual divide — its perpetrators, its victims.
What Divides the Nation Is Belief
The nation is evenly cut up between those that suppose, with all of the fervor they’ve, that one among our political events nonetheless tells the reality, and those that don’t belief both to have their again. That cut up in 2022 was 56-42 in favor of the occasion belief.
If the latest Atrios piece is true, it’s now 50-50:
Driving the information: Gallup polling final month discovered {that a} file 49% of People see themselves as politically unbiased — the identical as the 2 main events put collectively.
- By far the dominant U.S. occasion isn’t Democrats or Republicans. It’s: “I’ll store round, thanks.”
Whereas it’s true that among the many “neithers” are those that lean, some to Republican prosecutorial virtue, some to Democrats’ sometime kindliness.
However a 50% voting bloc would management the nation, if they might unite towards each legacy events and again a 3rd. Not going to happen, after all. However dreams are nonetheless good.
The Love They Take
Which ends up in my predominant level du jour. Does the Democratic Occasion actually suppose it’s going to develop its love among the many indie class by acting like this?
It might be one factor if Taibbi’s testimony earlier than Congress have been false, particularly knowingly false. (Although “knowingly false” didn’t trouble James Clapper too much.) However the truth is, no matter you’ve come to think about the person, even that he “serves the Right,” the facts are on his side. Not a superb search for the reality-based community, denying the information.
And the circle beneath, by the perceived-to-be party-aligned Instances, is impossible to square:
How do you defend these acts to those that don’t already consider that any act that stems the fascist tide is justified, even when the trouble itself is questionable at best, and unconstitutional at worst?
How do you defend them to these not already satisfied?
Ready for Democratic Deliverance
I write this to not trash Democrats, a few of whom show an honor truthfully gained, however to weep for them, their depraved misleadership, after which to despair. Like goals, hope is good, however it’s not thick on the bottom.
In any case, Republicans, as they’re now misled, appear hell-bent on a Christo-fascist coup. However to belief Democrats to avoid wasting us? An errand for fools, if previous is prologue in any respect.
Feste: Foolery, sir, does stroll concerning the orb just like the solar — it shines all over the place.
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