Hate Sells category archive
The Answer: Hate Feeds on Itself 0
The quandary:
Follow the link for the rest of the quandary.
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.
This New Gilded Age 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Kim Shinkoskey argues that
Follow the link and get the points.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Michael Parker, writing at The Philadelphia Inquirer, hears a rhyme from Down Under.
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*Mark Twain.
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.