Culture Warriors category archive
Our Trumpled Polity 0
Thom runs the numbers that show that, since Donald Trump entered the political scene in 2015, hate crimes have escalated dramatically.
Thom also notes that “hate is a cheap effective political weapon” and warns not to be taken in by it.
Republican Thought Police 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, author Seema Yasmin points out that there has been a rise in “soft” book bans, that is, book bans that go on in the absence of any stated rules. The public doesn’t hear of them, but they’re there.
A snippet:
“Values Voters” 0
Mangy argues that Donald Trump truly represents the essence of today’s Republican Party.
The Establishmentarian Indoctrination Initiative 0
Thom debunks de bunk.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Steve M. looks at the reaction of Fox News hosts to Donald Trump’s suggestion that immigrants sbe used as modern-day gladiators for the entertainment of the masses. He suggests that (emphasis added):
Methinks Steve M. is onto something. Follow the link for the rest.
Afterthought:
I think it telling that, in ancient Rome, gladiators were slaves, and, for all practical purposes, this too would be enslavement–another reason why the Party of the New Secesh would not find this notion objectionable.
Establishmentarians 0
Jimmy Kimmel highlights the hypocrisy.
If the Scribes and Pharisees of the Gospels had had a political party, it would have looked like today’s Republ–oh, never mind.
Video via C&L, which has commentary.
Establishmentarians 0
Emma and the crew delight in CNN’s Boris Sanchez’s unrelenting grilling of establishmentarian Lauren Ventrella’s duplicitous doubletalk.
Aside:
I find it somewhat disconcerting that Ventrella considers an English text of a commandment that Sanchez displayed on the screen to be the “most historical” version of it. As far as I remember, the commandments had been around for two or three millennia before being rendered into English.
Then, again, we are a society of stupid, which idolizes the ignorant and venerates the vacuous.
Republican Thought Police 0
Writing at the Kansas City Star, Joe Kohlburn offers an explanation for recent mobilization of the Republican Thought Police SWAT teams across the country:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Thom hears a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Thought Police 0
Last week, a Florida school board band the book, Ban This Book, a children’s book about school book bans. In response, Scott Maxwell offers some advice to the Republican Thought Police:
Follow the link the rest of his response.
Transmogrification 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Keith Burris discusses the path from populism to nationalism to fascism. Though I’m not sure I agree with everything he says, I think it a timely read. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
Reaction is the ignition and the fuel. Not conservatism, not preservation, but reaction.
And reaction often leads to wrecking balls.
That is when nationalist populism turns into something properly called fascism.
Methinks a lot of the antics of the right-wing evangelical they-call-themselves Christians fits right in with Burris’s thoughts on reaction.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I think it’s not an exaggeration to suggest that what was once the “Party of Lincoln” is now the Party of the Secesh.
The New Golden Rule 0
According to right-wing evangelical they-call-themselves Christians. it’s “do unto others.”
