Culture Warriors category archive
The Answer: Hate Feeds on Itself 0
The quandary:
Follow the link for the rest of the quandary.
The Privatization Scam 0
Minnesota charter schools to Minnesota: Give us the public’s money, but don’t expect us to tell you what we do with it.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I wish I could say I found this surprising, but, in these times in which one of our two major political parties has chosen bigotry and hate as part of their platform, I can’t say that I do.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini hears a rhyme swirling from the past.
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Family Values 0
There seems to be a common thread here, does there not?
Honest to Pete, Monty Python couldn’t make this stuff up.
Republican Family Values 0
Steve M. points out that a significant Republican family value is to be “mean for the sake of mean.”
Republican Family Values 0
Michael in Norfolk notes that they are phoning it in.
Establishmentarians 0
Writing at Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino suspects that those who would establish impose their faith might have an appeal.
A Notion of Immigrants, Mean for the Sake of Mean Dept. 0
It is difficult not to find oneself just maybe having a slight twinge of a suspicion that perhaps sadism is a Republican Family Value.
Dissonance 0
As I was preparing to hang the flag out–something I do for national holidays–I thought of others who fly the flag, maybe just not only on holidays as I do but every day, some of them even flying maybe multiple flags from their “I am an inadequate male” pick-up trucks.
I thought of how they congratulate themselves on being such patriots.
And I wondered, as they do that, do they think of the pledge, do they repeat the words
. . . and liberty and justice for all . . . .
to themselves, even as they vote for Donald Trump, the man who puts children in cages?
Establishmentarians 0
Sociology professor Art Jipson takes a deep look at New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), one of the right-wing evangelical they-call-themselves Christian groups that have anointed Donald Trump as Jesus 2.0.
Afterthought:
Methinks the right-wing evangelical they-call-themselves Christian movmment is not at all about the spreading the gospel of love.
It’s about the propagating the power of preachers.
Unjust Deserts? 0
Thom takes exception to Elie Mystal’s column about the recent election, in which Mystal argues that “Trump is our reckoning.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Joy Reid pulls no punches.
Make no mistake.
The pundits and politicians who are trying to blame Kamala Harris’s losing the election on Democratic strategy or poor messaging or you-name-it are (often willfully) missing the point.
Harris, despite being the most capable (not to mention coherent) candidate, lost to America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the construct of white racial superiority that was formulated to rationalize it.
Any claim otherwise is bullsh from the pundit hand book on how to mislabel maliciousness and normalize narcissism..
