Eh, more or less a tautology. Acting like politics were ever fair or not polarized is a level of willful naivety that I'm not quite sure I can grasp.
On the other hand, technologies have changed greatly in the past 100 years, and politics has been spun into it. Blaming politicians is the easy way out. Analyzing why we have not yet adapted to new circumstances is the hard question that cuts straight through this stupid blame game.
Two characterizations of speech will destroy democracy. 1) Speech is violence and 2) Corporate political donations are "free speech." In short, our leaders will be bought and we won't be able to criticize because that would be Fat Cat shaming.
We are blessed to have these critically serious thinkers and writers! Indeed, we may now have more of them than we've seen around the US since the early 1990s, with the rise of the anti-nuclearization-of-the-world movement. Today, the censorship leviathan has already gone global. The callenges to this regime have also gone global. See this social Glenn Greenwald-Matt Taibbi dialogue going on at Rumble and Substack: https://www.racket.news/p/transcript-interview-with-glenn-greenwald?utm_campaign=email-post&r=b930w&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email And, see this analysis of what China (BRICS) are doing to deliver a regime change in the US's dollarized-to-death global political economy, with the censorship regime being US's crowning glory in its growing IMF failures: https://michael-hudson.com/2023/10/twice-as-important/ The world view from "the West" appears to be falling appart. Do not worry! This is only The West falling apart. The world is coming together in the very most broad variety of democratic socialist political economies humans have thus imagined. Decency can become the norm. Everywhere outside the crumbling-from-its-own-indecency-West. Namaste'.
For the political climate to be depolarized, the arguments that are made by the participants in the debate over those policies that should be enacted inacted into law to be logical, Currently, however, illogic abounds. This situation could be turned around by insertion of one or more logicians into the process by which legislation is generated.
Good stuff--a key moment, and one particularly relevant now, was the way Obama characterized Bush's Council on Bioethics when he disbanded it. That group included my great teacher and friend Peter Augustine Lawler, who did not deserve the 'anti-science' slanders Obama resorted to.
BTW, I mention and quote Aaron's work in a new post, one in which I ever-so-slightly suggest that he begin to join me in pressuring various organs of 'respectable conservatism' to start talking not just about generalized Covidian despotism, i.e., the lockdowns, the censorship, etc., but also, the Covid-19 vax-harm claims. They should not be able to continue to present themselves, and with Aaron's seeming approval, as AGAINST censorship, when they are suppressing any discussion on their own channels of the most hot-potato of the Covid-policy issues. I hope I get a chance to mention this to him at the coming Brownstone conference. https://pomocon.substack.com/p/the-silence-on-the-jabs
It's also the politics of arrogance
Eh, more or less a tautology. Acting like politics were ever fair or not polarized is a level of willful naivety that I'm not quite sure I can grasp.
On the other hand, technologies have changed greatly in the past 100 years, and politics has been spun into it. Blaming politicians is the easy way out. Analyzing why we have not yet adapted to new circumstances is the hard question that cuts straight through this stupid blame game.
Two characterizations of speech will destroy democracy. 1) Speech is violence and 2) Corporate political donations are "free speech." In short, our leaders will be bought and we won't be able to criticize because that would be Fat Cat shaming.
We are blessed to have these critically serious thinkers and writers! Indeed, we may now have more of them than we've seen around the US since the early 1990s, with the rise of the anti-nuclearization-of-the-world movement. Today, the censorship leviathan has already gone global. The callenges to this regime have also gone global. See this social Glenn Greenwald-Matt Taibbi dialogue going on at Rumble and Substack: https://www.racket.news/p/transcript-interview-with-glenn-greenwald?utm_campaign=email-post&r=b930w&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email And, see this analysis of what China (BRICS) are doing to deliver a regime change in the US's dollarized-to-death global political economy, with the censorship regime being US's crowning glory in its growing IMF failures: https://michael-hudson.com/2023/10/twice-as-important/ The world view from "the West" appears to be falling appart. Do not worry! This is only The West falling apart. The world is coming together in the very most broad variety of democratic socialist political economies humans have thus imagined. Decency can become the norm. Everywhere outside the crumbling-from-its-own-indecency-West. Namaste'.
Excellent writing , so necessary to give context to our present-day.
For the political climate to be depolarized, the arguments that are made by the participants in the debate over those policies that should be enacted inacted into law to be logical, Currently, however, illogic abounds. This situation could be turned around by insertion of one or more logicians into the process by which legislation is generated.
Sort of like Plato's philosopher king? I'd be satisfied if candidates had to declare, along with their finances, their SAT scores.
CA Teacher sues state and local government alleging arbitrary and capricious COVID policies:
https://1drv.ms/b/s!Aq5lK3SLnSHRgaMhNyFYiBzZdEgkvQ
Good stuff--a key moment, and one particularly relevant now, was the way Obama characterized Bush's Council on Bioethics when he disbanded it. That group included my great teacher and friend Peter Augustine Lawler, who did not deserve the 'anti-science' slanders Obama resorted to.
BTW, I mention and quote Aaron's work in a new post, one in which I ever-so-slightly suggest that he begin to join me in pressuring various organs of 'respectable conservatism' to start talking not just about generalized Covidian despotism, i.e., the lockdowns, the censorship, etc., but also, the Covid-19 vax-harm claims. They should not be able to continue to present themselves, and with Aaron's seeming approval, as AGAINST censorship, when they are suppressing any discussion on their own channels of the most hot-potato of the Covid-policy issues. I hope I get a chance to mention this to him at the coming Brownstone conference. https://pomocon.substack.com/p/the-silence-on-the-jabs