09-28-2020, 08:46 PM
Red and blue constellations are parallel in some ways, but quite different in composition and methods. They are much more different than what I see between Marxists and their mirror images, the latter the people who act as Marx says that capitalists act but consider such behavior either admirable or inevitable (the latter rationalizing themselves by suggesting that everyone is a greedy, conniving bastard if given a chance).
The Red side has little youth appeal or intellectual appeal. Like most right-wing tendencies, the Red side of American politics attempts to protect moribund traditions, practices, and ideals even from demographic and technological (including medical) change. Much more than the Blue side it sees Humanity concerned with its own greed, appetites, and lusts and unable to control those. It is of course for elite dominance of the economy, seeking controlled markets, lax regulation, and cheap labor. It often makes specious arguments such as "union dues take food off your table and Christmas presents from under the tree on Christmas Day". (To which I say, "collective bargaining is all that protects you from an employer exploiting your weakness in pressing your case for a living wage").
The Red side has little youth appeal or intellectual appeal. Like most right-wing tendencies, the Red side of American politics attempts to protect moribund traditions, practices, and ideals even from demographic and technological (including medical) change. Much more than the Blue side it sees Humanity concerned with its own greed, appetites, and lusts and unable to control those. It is of course for elite dominance of the economy, seeking controlled markets, lax regulation, and cheap labor. It often makes specious arguments such as "union dues take food off your table and Christmas presents from under the tree on Christmas Day". (To which I say, "collective bargaining is all that protects you from an employer exploiting your weakness in pressing your case for a living wage").
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.