Category: progressives
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Not meeting the moment
Social media is full of ugly attacks on Democrats presented as “advice” to improve “messaging” or for Democrats to take a more aggressive posture against Republicans ( “do something”). The attacks are so abusive and demeaning that they give any clear eyed observer a sense that the point is not…
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Saint Bernie and that horrible woman: why the “left” is so reactionary.
On the eve of the fateful 2016 Presidential election, in a pre-election “explainer”, Dissent magazine told its readers a completely false story that St. Bernie Sanders was bringing us socialism, whether we deserved it or not, but evil neoliberal Hillary Clinton was a fanatical devotee of the harshest form of…
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Regressives at the New Republic and the imaginary generation gap.
An American who is age 60 in 2020 entered the workforce in 1980 after the OPEC oil embargo during the Reagan recession where unemployment went up to 10.8%, an era the regressives (who call themselves progressives) consider utopian. Jeet Heer @HeerJeet ·Apr 8 3. Here is the reality of the…
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The Celebrity Apprentice Left and health care
Democrats have been attempting to pass universal national health in the USA since the Truman administration proposed national health insurance and other reforms in 1945. “Under the plan I suggest, our people would continue to get medical and hospital services just as they do now — on the basis of…
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White Workers and the evil neoliberal Democrats
Most working class Americans will vote for Hillary Clinton but white people, particularly white men, will likely remain the base of the Republicans and the right thanks to racism. The civil rights movement and the (qualified) support of that movement by Lyndon Johnson and liberal Democrats and Northeastern Republicans, generated…
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What, another post on anti-neoliberalism?
Most of the time when some earnest leftie uses the word “neoliberalism”, he (and it is almost always a “he”) means to imply nothing more than that he is a smart person in possession of some deep knowledge about how things work with the cool nomenclature. Sadly the more sophisticated…
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Movement Progressives have learned nothing
As we collapse into election 2016, it’s clear that Movement Progressives, many of whom have coalesced around Bernie Sanders, have learned nothing. The author of this 2010 blog post just cited it as evidence that his complaints about President Obama were well justified – and the dense material of often…
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Rhetoric 101 and President Obama
Obama’s famous speech in which he says there are no red states, no blue states, just the United States, and his other pleas for unity are incessantly derided by people who appear not to have basic language skills. Here’s the last paragraph of President Lincoln’s speech at his first inaugural.…
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Dean Bakers silly and politically backwards bailout falsehood
Finally, Sorkin again makes the annoying assertion on the AIG bailout that, “we got our money back — with more than $22 billion in profit.” This one deserves derision. Access to liquidity back in 2008-2009 carried an enormous premium. We gave $192 billion to AIG at a time when other…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates and the broken culture of progressive America
Obama-era progressives view white supremacy as something awful that happened in the past whose historical vestiges still afflict black people today. Coates. There is a tiny little fictional Obama who lives in the tiny little stale imaginations of progressive intellectuals – one that they don’t ever want to bother to…
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