Contrary to what Leonhardt claims, AMERICA REBOOTS DEMOCRACY is less a refutation of disarray than merely a good example of it in some detail regarding merely middle class (so called, really no class, as all Americans now are) white women.
Taking the House hardly means that either Party which does so is not also in gross disarray....
Both Parties are in gross, permanent, and terminal disarray, or so it seems to me.
Because our peculiar system is so little susceptible to reform, and because political parties such as we have had are uniquely incapable of accomplishing that, it seems highly unlikely that there will be improvement in government going forward, but rather the reverse.
The Republican Party, since the time of Lincoln, has been the Party of fascism. That seems to me to be unlikely to change, going forward.
Yet, even to get to Lincolnian fascism, one has to have, say, one unifying principle, which he did, not a long menu of heterogeneous wishes; in his case the unifying principle was eradicating negroes.
He was, in this sense, an ideological political precursor to Hitlerite Anti Semitism: he used the negro scare, as his only issue, to get elected by Northern white voters, similarly to how Hitler used anti Semitic fears and prejudices among Germans and Austrians, as his big single issue, even including, similarly, the fears of the pollution of the blood of white Aryans, as one among many related rationales. Terms search: Lincoln Douglas, debates.
Just to take a great counterfactual illustration, based on global labor practices in the 19th Century, if you had had white indentured servants, working on plantations in the South, under conditions similar to those of the negroes, amounting to de facto but ostensibly contractual slavery, rather than negro slaves, no political issue analogous to our Civil War scenario would have been possible.
Notably, California barely kept Chinese and Indian indentured servant coolie labor (most importantly: not slave labor) out of California, for cultural and racial reasons not economic ones.
See, recently, Bingo again!:
Neither party has anything remotely resembling such a unifying principle.
Smell the coffee, game over!
Taking the House hardly means that either Party which does so is not also in gross disarray....
Both Parties are in gross, permanent, and terminal disarray, or so it seems to me.
Because our peculiar system is so little susceptible to reform, and because political parties such as we have had are uniquely incapable of accomplishing that, it seems highly unlikely that there will be improvement in government going forward, but rather the reverse.
The Republican Party, since the time of Lincoln, has been the Party of fascism. That seems to me to be unlikely to change, going forward.
Yet, even to get to Lincolnian fascism, one has to have, say, one unifying principle, which he did, not a long menu of heterogeneous wishes; in his case the unifying principle was eradicating negroes.
He was, in this sense, an ideological political precursor to Hitlerite Anti Semitism: he used the negro scare, as his only issue, to get elected by Northern white voters, similarly to how Hitler used anti Semitic fears and prejudices among Germans and Austrians, as his big single issue, even including, similarly, the fears of the pollution of the blood of white Aryans, as one among many related rationales. Terms search: Lincoln Douglas, debates.
Just to take a great counterfactual illustration, based on global labor practices in the 19th Century, if you had had white indentured servants, working on plantations in the South, under conditions similar to those of the negroes, amounting to de facto but ostensibly contractual slavery, rather than negro slaves, no political issue analogous to our Civil War scenario would have been possible.
Notably, California barely kept Chinese and Indian indentured servant coolie labor (most importantly: not slave labor) out of California, for cultural and racial reasons not economic ones.
See, recently, Bingo again!:
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Neither party has anything remotely resembling such a unifying principle.
Smell the coffee, game over!
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