03-02-2017, 05:33 PM
(03-02-2017, 05:12 PM)TeacherinExile Wrote:(03-02-2017, 04:47 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: Amen. People are going batshit-insane. I've read about popular hysteria in books, but watching it happen in real-time with people I know is one of the stranger experiences of my life. It's like people believe this sort of thing doesn't have consequences.
And here's a snippet from my favorite "socialist rag." (Not that I'm a socialist: I rather prefer Marxist critiques to Marxist prescriptions, as they have played out in reality.)
"The Slow Collapse of Imperial Republics"
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/trump-russia-election-legitimacy-imperial-power/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=email_this&utm_source=email
...If people could step outside their partisan selves for one minute, I’d ask you to consider the following fact as yet another sign of late imperial disjunction: For the last eight years, we’ve had a president who half the country thinks is Muslim, Kenyan-born. For the next four, maybe eight, years, we will have a president who half the country thinks is the Manchurian Candidate, Russian-born. I can’t think of a greater symptom of the weird fever dream that is the American empire, whereby the most powerful state on earth imagines, over a twelve to sixteen year period, that its elected leaders hail from the far reaches of its various antagonisms.
What ties these events together is either that they cast serious doubt on the democratic legitimacy of American institutions [including the Fourth Estate] or that they drag those institutions into the delegitimating mud of the most sordid scandals...
Most Americans--and certainly those who voted for Trump--could give a good goddamn about "fake news," wherever it originates...
Are you also arguing for turning the other check? The GOP has pretty long record of malfeasance here. Giving them a pass is a near certainty of more to come.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.