Is China in a 2T-ish era?

[David Horn]

(08-03-2022, 04:48 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I'm just wondering what the electoral effect is. Knocking the woke people might raise the Republican vote, since that's all they have to offer: sensations, symbols, slogans. Make people upset about a few "woke" fanatics on the other side; blame them for everything; make black lives matter responsible for riots, denounce the caravans of criminal immigrants streaming across open borders, etc. There are always going to be angry people around across the political spectrum, and there always have been. I don't always like them either. Trump and his Republicans are focusing on them because they have nothing else to offer. Just arouse fear and point fingers at a few extremists who have no power and who sound mean. These Republicans are just like Nazis pointing their fingers of blame at Jews and Communists and exaggerating their threats.

So the Republicans are able to get power this way, because in this era of neoliberal cynical social breakdown, people mindlessly fall for these anti-woke slogans and symbols of fear and hatred, but I don't blame the leftist fanatics for this; I blame those like DeSantis making hay about them, and the voters who fall for the hay. But the result is what we've got, a stalemate between those who fall for the emotions and the slogans (and the Republicans voted into office by them), and those honestly interested in policy and solving problems (Democrats), both currently dominated by Manchin and Sinema.

George Monbiot describes the situation well:
https://youtu.be/jOuzABjrAo4?t=516

What we have here is the political equivalent of the old lawyers adage about focusing on things that can win.  In short, the GOP policy basket benefits their chosen few and disadvantages everyone else.  They can't focus on that!  Instead, like the lawyers with no where else to go, they are pounding on the table -- in fact, that's been their modus operandi for decaeds.  They've prefected it.  One of the authors, Lee Atwater, regretted his part in this just before he died in 1991.

Why the Dems can't see this is amazing to me.