Hate Sells category archive
Immunity Impunity
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At the Idaho State Journal, Michael Corrigan marvels at the teflon Don.
Misdirection Play 0
Robert Reich theorizes that Donald Trump by what I would call a misdirection play. Here’s a bit of his article (emphasis added). Follow the link for context; it’s a worthwhile read.
Wrong. Trump has been able to channel the intensifying anger of the white working class away from the real causes of working-class distress — away from the big corporations, wealthy individuals, and denizens of Wall Street whose money has rigged the game against average working people.
It was not the first time in history that a demagogue has used scapegoats to deflect public attention from the real causes of their distress, and it won’t be the last.
Aside:
Where Reich says “wrong” in the bit I quoted, I might have said “right.” The elements cited in the first paragraph above were not irrelevancies.
They were the bait.
Tales of the Trumpling 0
Woman trumpled at a Mickey D’s for having a Harris bumper sticker.
Afterthought:
Methinks that persons who would vote for someone who has no respect for the rule of law or for norms and traditions will themselves have no respe–oh, never mind.
Look in the Mirror, Boy!* 0
At The Seattle Times, Carlton Winfrey argues that the recent election tells us more about ourselves than we would like. And it ain’t pretty.
A snippet:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
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*With apologies to the Who.
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?
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..
It’s Bubblelicious 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jessica Koehler explores the effects of living in a bubble, like, say, just as a for instance, a news bubble. Here’s a bit:
I commend the entire piece to your attention as being a most timely read.
It’s the Stupid, Economy 0
Michael in Norfolk isn’t buying the narrative that Trump’s winning the election was about the economy. He argues that
Follow the link for the rest of his remarks.
Base Desires 0
The Rude One offers his thoughts about Donald Trump’s victory. The gist:
Follow the link for context.
(Warning: Language.)
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Robert Cauthorn, writing at the Las Vegas Sun, hears a number of rhymes between today and the era of McCarthyism and the “Red Scare.” Here’s just one of them; follow the link for the rest.
Just like today, in the 1950s the forces of authoritarianism talked about the people who opposed them as degenerates and sexual deviants. And it should not go unnoticed that McCarthy’s right hand was lawyer Roy Cohn, who later became Donald Trump’s prized mentor.
Methinks you will find his article somewhat disquieting.
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*Mark Twain.
Navigating the Disinformation Superhighway 0
WHYY, an excellent radio station which I listened to when l lived in the Philly area, offers some excellent pointers for avoiding misdirection ploys on the Disinformation Superhighway.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Victoria Hugo-Vidal hears a rhyme. Here’s a tiny bit of her column:
At the same time as Victor was hiding his heritage, on the other side of the family on the other side of the country, in upstate New York, my other great-great-grandfather, Garrett MacEachron, joined the domestic terrorist group known as the Ku Klux Klan.
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
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*Mark Twain.
A Pet Theory 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Robert Bartholomew notes that there is nothing new about stories of immigrants eating pets Here’s a bit of his article (emphasis added); follow the link for context.
