Wednesday, October 03, 2018

ANS -- from Facebook, about Kavanaugh's foofaraw.

This was on Facebook -- the official article referenced and linked is a right wing view of what's going on -- saying that Professor Ford has no evidence and Kavanaugh is a good guy. (I do not think either of those are true.) The important part is the commentary by Tripp Hudgins, which puts the blame in the right place.
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--Kim


Tripp's commentary rings truer to me than the original essay. Scott McIsaac

I would write this article differently. And Siri may change some of my language. Brace yourselves.

The line the author takes in framing his argument begins with the American Civil War and Antietam. This sets up a false analogy. He's trying to shoehorn in the notion of a "cold civil war" using ponderous prose. The analogy does not serve his argument. Instead, he simply proves himself to be a pawn of specific ideologues. Allow me to mansplain.

What The left fails to realize, if anything, is, as the author states, the same discontent that elected Trump in the first place. But it is not the discontent of the (white) American worker.

There is a large portion of this nation that has been manipulated into believing that they have been cast off. As someone who has family in rural Virginia, I can see how people would make the leap. Public school system sucks out there. Food deserts abound in the midst of agricultural zones. But they are not the average Trump voter. There are plenty of articles and research essays that clearly demonstrate that the average Trump voter is an upper-middle-class white male and not his rural uncle. White middle-class evangelical women also love Trump. And let us not forget thenlarge percentage of white mainline Christians who voted "against Hillary."

The Evil of racism is still alive in this country. No question. The fear of the "browning of America" is also a social phenomenon. But what is behind all of this fear of cultural change or the loss of historical white identity in the south, for example, is a cohort of incredibly wealthy and influential people who are banging the drums of discontent. They are creating the Brett Kavanaghs. They are inciting the right. They have built this volcano and our intrepid author has fallen into their trap.

Our issue isn't that the moderate to right leaning lower middle-class American worker has been mobilized. That's the symptom. Our problem is much more nefarious. It's specific hyper-capitalists trying to dismantle the federal government so that they can make more money and further their influence and power.

Read: https://itunes.apple.com/…/democracy-in-chains/id1105229084…

As someone once said recently, the issue isn't Roe v. Wade, the issue is Brown v. The Board of Education.

The left is not oblivious to the ramblings of a volcano. It is that the only tool that they have at their disposal is making more noise than the volcano does.

Why is this? That's the question we need answered.

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Jonathan Robert Nelson
Jonathan Robert Nelson Right. "Democracy in Chains" is the right reference here.
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Peter Newport
Peter Newport Hugh Hewitt is a Republican troll. Sliming Blumenthal with an eight year old story while omitting to mention the presidents "bone spurs" and (count 'em) five vietnam era deferments. Some people just don't have to go too far out of their way to be assholes.
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Jeremy W. Symington
Jeremy W. Symington Judge Kavanaugh's comportment during his confirmation hearings has been both astonishing and off-putting; he seems barely able to control his balefully self-centered outrage at the mere notion that he might be denied a seat on the Supreme Court. It's See More
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Kim Cooper
Kim Cooper I agree. Tripp's commentary is more accurate than the essay by Hewitt, which is full of lies and half-truths. But, we are still up against some evil dudes who have a lot of money and power, and we have no way to stop them beyond making a lot of noise -- which we are doing very badly.

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