06-08-2016, 10:28 AM
National liberal?
I expect Donald Trump to accede to the desire of Corporate America to impose a national Right-to-Work-for-starvation-pay law that guts collective bargaining so that employers can exploit the bargaining weaknesses of employers. I have heard bosses tell them that they prefer to negotiate individually with workers on the workers' merits. The pay offered is invariably the lowers that the employer can get away with. I would not be surprised if he advocated at the behest of Big Business that the minimum wage law be scrapped so that wages can fall to Third World levels while the welfare system is abolished. There's nothing liberal about that, except that it might be the outmoded "classical liberalism", basically "He who has the gold makes the rules" -- the late oil tycoon H.L. Hunt.
Majoritarian culture? Is "majoritarian, Anglo-American culture" perfect?
I have done some substitute school teaching, and I have heard some black kids fault me for asking that they act white. Act white? Hardly. There are just too many white loser subcultures in America for me to endorse "acting white". I retorted that "I prefer that you act like Chinese-Americans"!
(I am not of Asian origin).
I expect Donald Trump to accede to the desire of Corporate America to impose a national Right-to-Work-for-starvation-pay law that guts collective bargaining so that employers can exploit the bargaining weaknesses of employers. I have heard bosses tell them that they prefer to negotiate individually with workers on the workers' merits. The pay offered is invariably the lowers that the employer can get away with. I would not be surprised if he advocated at the behest of Big Business that the minimum wage law be scrapped so that wages can fall to Third World levels while the welfare system is abolished. There's nothing liberal about that, except that it might be the outmoded "classical liberalism", basically "He who has the gold makes the rules" -- the late oil tycoon H.L. Hunt.
Majoritarian culture? Is "majoritarian, Anglo-American culture" perfect?
I have done some substitute school teaching, and I have heard some black kids fault me for asking that they act white. Act white? Hardly. There are just too many white loser subcultures in America for me to endorse "acting white". I retorted that "I prefer that you act like Chinese-Americans"!
(I am not of Asian origin).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.