Kudos, this one is a bit different. So do you believe that Trump is raising elites up or tearing elites down?The wider the perspective, the better the understanding, IMHO. Trump is part of a larger trend….
The New Wave of Fake Populists Who Serve Elites While Claiming to Stand for the People
Trump is Part of a Larger Trendlucid.substack.com
I'm pretty sure that I am left of The Thriller politically. He's a mainstream Democrat.
Fully agree. Good post.
You can check it yourself, but The Thriller is more statistically likely to resonate with identitarian characteristics than you do.
1) You obviously aren't factoring in my pre-crash posts.
I wasn't rating leftness, but progressivness. Resonance with collectivisim is the determining factor on a liberal versus progressive scale, and The Thriller is in the progressive left camp, not the super-left,or the ultra-left, or the classic-left, or whatever metric you want to judge leftness by, but his collectivist tendencies mark him as more of a progressive than you are.
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a.k.a: race. all terms were used correctly.
Socially, we are not all the same race, and it's collectivism to say we need to be treated as a monolith instead of as individuals.
He doesn't meet the other two definitions either.
It is collectivism to see all of society as a group. It is also collectivism to divide people into racial group, or gender groups, or religious groups, or trade groups. The important part of your statement is "instead of as individuals".
Per the definition: emphasis on collective rather than individual action or identity. Stripping people of their identities is collectivism, by definition. I guess that creates some cognitive dissonance in you, but the definition is clear and I will not bother to argue it further. I cede you the last word.
There is no cognitive dissonance. Collectivists group people into collections of people and treat the members of the group as a monolith. For example, collective bargaining refers to bargaining with a collective (union) rather than with the individuals comprising the workforce. Modern collectivists recognize that people can belong to multiple collectives. This concept is referred to as 'intersectionality'. As far as lumping people into collectives, you don't do that as much as The Thriller. He is a more progressive leftist than you are, and you are a more liberal leftist than he is. I don't know which is considered more left, but if you want to take The Thriller's progressive crown then you've got to up your game of classifying people by their ethnicity, political leanings, etc. It might help if you start claiming there is only one of something on this site and insist that everyone else is just a sock puppet for the one. Or you could just be happy being you.
Actually, intersectionality is a entirely different concept. That's Rufo-level, aggressively, deliberately wrong.
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I’d just like the media to inform Americans what the former president and current GOP frontrunner is saying. That would be nice.The “Banality of Crazy”
There’s a puzzle at the heart of Trump news and it’s this: why doesn’t the press go FULL BLOCK CAPITALS when a leading presidential candidate, yet again, incites violence?
If Joe Biden called to execute shoplifters, do you think there’d be a big headline in the New York Times, or do you think you’d have to scroll well past the articles on pumpkin spice lattes and DogTV to find out about it?
We all know the answer.
When Joe Biden didn’t trip but nearly tripped last week, it was headline news. How absurd is that? A candidate who didn’t quite fall over is a bigger news story than a candidate calling to execute shoplifters? (For the record, roughly ten percent of the US population shoplifts, so millions would face potential execution under Trump’s proposal).
This is what I call the Banality of Crazy—and it’s warping the way that Americans think about politics in the Trump and post-Trump era.
The Case for Amplifying Trump's Insanity
The "Banality of Crazy" has warped American politics, as few voters recognize just how deranged, delusional, and dangerous Donald Trump is...because the press rarely reports on his routine insanity.
Is there some part of the country where MSNBC is a broadcast channel? If Biden were to make that mistake, it'd be a pile-on talking about Biden's age.
That was a bleak read. I feel the inevitability of Trump 2.0 to a degree, I’ve been slack jawed at one seems like a “going to have to learn the hard way” inevitability for awhile, grasping at any “good” news, but the future suggested in that narrative won’t come as a surprise if it happens.
