The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(12-13-2019, 12:32 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: I do not accuse President Trump of fomenting antisemitic violence directly.He is creating a climate of hate by stoking resentments that can go violent. He has done little to make America a better place for people not already filthy rich.

Economic resentments often lead to religious and ethnic bigotry, and bigotry erodes the civility that makes domestic tranquility possible. Face it -- under-educated white people are being left behind, and some of them shout "Jews will not replace us!" (presumably with non-white people).

I recognize an ironic affinity to Jews through the German part of my heritage. When Germany was a leader in cultural creativity (that ended in 1933, and if you want some idea of how great Germany could have been in cultural creativity, then just look at German cinema around 1930. That talent did not fade away; the Jewish part found its way to Hollywood. Jewish actors, writers, and directors endowed America with cinematic masterpieces still eminently watchable to this day. Germany became for all practical purposes a cultural fossil.

But it goes beyond that. Even with the crony capitalism that we now endure as neoliberalism we still have some room for spectacular achievement. People not at the top of the game will get the dubious privilege of survival at the terms of an economic and administrative elites who recognize no right for the person of ordinary talent to do anything other than to suffer for the gain, indulgence, and power of those elites.  Those elites seek monopoly control over everything.They want a few giant corporations to control everything. So if you want to start a small business -- you can no longer operate a store, restaurant, or bank as a cottage industry. Even the tax laws strongly favor the dinosaurs of our time... and don't let me get into the power of advertising. So if you want to be an independent professional you will have to start with gigantic student loans.

The bad parts of our heritage bite us back when the economic elites go from being innovators who make improvements the quality of life for most people (what Arnold Toynbee called a creative elite) into one adept at commanding its subjects into making great sacrifices just for the questionable survival (which is what Toynbee's dominant elite does).  

Maybe we cannot quite return to chattel slavery, but much of America can revert to the debt-bondage of sharecropping. Thoroughly-rotten social orders have a missionary zeal to spread the nastiness where such is unwelcome --which means that Manifest Destiny might get a sick revival.

Who is creating the bulk of the resentment these days? Think about it. Trump says something true/real to a group of Americans relating to illegal immigration and the liberal media portrays it as meaning something else and immediately calls him a racist for doing it and associates him with supremacist groups and then associates all of us with them too. I wonder how many acts of violence are somehow or another related to liberal media these days? In case you don't know, the liberal media of today is much more irresponsible in nature and much more incompetent than the liberal media of the Walter Cronkite era. Think about it. The Republican side, or American side as I view it these days, won't be returning to being ruled by Monarchs/foreign powers or slavery or indentured servitude or powerless peasants or socialism/Communism or Fascism either. However, I wouldn't rule out it's use of good old fashioned American Imperialism from time to time.