Mainstream news doesn't mind US support for fascist zionist apartheid Israel, even with the new ultra-right party of Netanyahu 2 (The Revenge). The fascistdar is not on in the US. IMO.
There is something wrong with the education that is received at elite universities like Harvard and Yale when their graduates are fascists such as Ron Desantis and Elsie Stefanik. They are not only ones, Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, is a graduate of Yale, Stephen Miller, Duke University and Tucker Carlson Trinity College.
This is entirely consistent with the history of elite education in the USA -- genocide of the natives, chattel slavery, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, abuse of immigrants, white supremacy, all were happily supported by these elite educational institutions. Producing narcissistic, careerist, amoral pieces of dung like Rep Stefanick is the norm and not the exception for the Ivies.
I think your points are worth considering. I’d like to know what they are. Your use of terms such as “bourgeois, faux populist neofascism, Weimar Democrats,” - is that depression
Parmalee: the only term in the words you mention (place in quote marks) that could remotely be considered Depression era "argot" (that's a helluva word, congrats on using it!) is "Weimar." Apologies for sounding snotty about reading books. I mentioned my book because it explains why "Weimar" applies to the contemporary Dems.
In my book This Happened Here, I give the neoliberal ascendancy central significance to understanding why Trumpism/facscism/Christian white nationalism arose like it has in this century in the USA. I'll have to go back into earlier threads to see why I wrongly or correctly gave you the dreaded TL designation. If it is inaccurate, I apologize. Pages 173-181 of that book are sub-titled "Trumpenleft Denialism: 18 False Narratives." I guess read them and see if any apply to you or not. Bluestone and Harrison were very important reads at the time and I commend you for consulting their works. I was once in labor history grad school and Marxist studies over at Binghamton and ventured to Cornell's IR archives.
I do NOT pose as an academic. I'm an ex-academic. Not a big fan of academia or academics. I am quite familar with Bluestone and Harrison -- not just that book but also The Great U-Turn. There's great discussion of the second half of the Carter administration as neoliberal onset in Ralph Nader's book Crashing the Tea Party and (more academically, for your tastes, replete with an Ivy League graduate schoo experience!) Jacob Hacker (Yale....tops Cornell!) and Paul Pierson's book Winner Take All Politics (Simon and Schuster, 2010). Super. How citing your previous reading experience and grad school pedigree is relevant to our differences here is lost on me. Do your own Substack or blog and you will appreciate that writers are free and often (to protect their time and sanity) feel compelled to delete comments and even ban commenters. I have already had to ban a few noxious Trumpenleft cretins here already. It's a thing. I have a long essay coming out soon on sixteen, no seventeen plagues on "the left." Look for it. If you think you don't fit under my fourth plague ("the Trumpenleft"), you can explain why.
I'm sort of a declassed child of the middle class. Thank God the middle class values were not fully passed on and Ive had to work some of the kinds of jobs you can get killed doing.
Mainstream news doesn't mind US support for fascist zionist apartheid Israel, even with the new ultra-right party of Netanyahu 2 (The Revenge). The fascistdar is not on in the US. IMO.
Fascists 'R US, apparently.
There is something wrong with the education that is received at elite universities like Harvard and Yale when their graduates are fascists such as Ron Desantis and Elsie Stefanik. They are not only ones, Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, is a graduate of Yale, Stephen Miller, Duke University and Tucker Carlson Trinity College.
This is entirely consistent with the history of elite education in the USA -- genocide of the natives, chattel slavery, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, abuse of immigrants, white supremacy, all were happily supported by these elite educational institutions. Producing narcissistic, careerist, amoral pieces of dung like Rep Stefanick is the norm and not the exception for the Ivies.
Good points!
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I think your points are worth considering. I’d like to know what they are. Your use of terms such as “bourgeois, faux populist neofascism, Weimar Democrats,” - is that depression
era argot still a thing?
Parmalee: the only term in the words you mention (place in quote marks) that could remotely be considered Depression era "argot" (that's a helluva word, congrats on using it!) is "Weimar." Apologies for sounding snotty about reading books. I mentioned my book because it explains why "Weimar" applies to the contemporary Dems.
Hardback available for just $128.
Do you read books? This might help you sort these things out: https://www.routledge.com/This-Happened-Here-Amerikaners-Neoliberals-and-the-Trumping-of-America/Street/p/book/9781032150598
In my book This Happened Here, I give the neoliberal ascendancy central significance to understanding why Trumpism/facscism/Christian white nationalism arose like it has in this century in the USA. I'll have to go back into earlier threads to see why I wrongly or correctly gave you the dreaded TL designation. If it is inaccurate, I apologize. Pages 173-181 of that book are sub-titled "Trumpenleft Denialism: 18 False Narratives." I guess read them and see if any apply to you or not. Bluestone and Harrison were very important reads at the time and I commend you for consulting their works. I was once in labor history grad school and Marxist studies over at Binghamton and ventured to Cornell's IR archives.
I do NOT pose as an academic. I'm an ex-academic. Not a big fan of academia or academics. I am quite familar with Bluestone and Harrison -- not just that book but also The Great U-Turn. There's great discussion of the second half of the Carter administration as neoliberal onset in Ralph Nader's book Crashing the Tea Party and (more academically, for your tastes, replete with an Ivy League graduate schoo experience!) Jacob Hacker (Yale....tops Cornell!) and Paul Pierson's book Winner Take All Politics (Simon and Schuster, 2010). Super. How citing your previous reading experience and grad school pedigree is relevant to our differences here is lost on me. Do your own Substack or blog and you will appreciate that writers are free and often (to protect their time and sanity) feel compelled to delete comments and even ban commenters. I have already had to ban a few noxious Trumpenleft cretins here already. It's a thing. I have a long essay coming out soon on sixteen, no seventeen plagues on "the left." Look for it. If you think you don't fit under my fourth plague ("the Trumpenleft"), you can explain why.
I'm sort of a declassed child of the middle class. Thank God the middle class values were not fully passed on and Ive had to work some of the kinds of jobs you can get killed doing.
You fit the Trumpenleeft profile pretty well. But we agree on the leverage issue.