Culture Warriors category archive
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
Mangy Fetlocks can’t imagine how it must feel to be so damn insecure and fragile as to worry about whether or not your beer is woke or not, manly or not, or conservative or not. Living in the north, Mangy has seen a lot of snowflakes but he never imagined being one. Having seen the pathetic video of musical has-been, Child Pebble, Adolescent Stone, or something like that, shooting at cans of Bud Light inspired him to write this song.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom makes a case that Republicans and the NRA are quite willingly orchestrating a misdirection play about gunnuttery to obscure their true intentions.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to cast its shadow.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
thom talks with professors Marchi Pally and Pamela Cooper-White about the rise of “Christian” nationalism.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Scott Maxwell looks at the latest strategy to turn the Statue of Liberty into a liar. Here’s how his article starts:
Follow the link for the rest.
Extra-Special Bonus QOTD 0
Plus ca Change 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, history professor Jonathan S. Perry looks back in time and sees parallels to Florida Governor DeSantis’s attempts to pretend history isn’t.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam and his crew talk with Vanderbilt professor Jefferson Cowie about how the legacy of George Wallace lives on today.
Republican Family Values 0
Michelle Goldberg is an optimist. She suggests that Republicans are starting realize that, in their crusade against abortion, they may have overreached.
She may be right, but my guess is that in order to retain the support of the right-wing evangelical they-call-themselves Christians, Republicans will double-down.
Decoding de Code 0
Robert C. Koehler explains the unstated wishes of those who are “anti-woke”:
Follow the link for context.
The Republican Party Personality Cult
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At the Las Vegas Sun, Casey Harrison explores Republicans’ fealty to Donald Trump in the face of the evidence of–er–somewhat questionable behavior. A snippet (emphasis added):
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“Unlike figures like Richard Nixon, who faced severe political consequences from his party in the light of the Watergate scandal, Trump has had no consequences meted out to him by the current Republican Party for his antagonism,” Benning said. “In this way, his supporters see a figure who shares their personality traits and values, who promises to put them on top of society, even though Trump has antagonistic and disinhibited traits that would make it difficult for him to enact those promises.”
The complete piece is worthy of your attention.
