With the way the U.S. is doing empire, I feel forced to agree with Glenn Greenwald, that the most motivated and determined voters demanding reform are those on the far right, perhaps because they are the angriest.
Greenwald analyzes from a left perspective, and he has been cursed by some self-identifying leftists as a Trump dupe, when he is no such thing.
This phenomenon where political labels preempt honest critical thought and discussion is regrettable and only subject to change if honest thinkers refrain from clever put-downs and argue for what they know to be true. Even if it causes some identity crises.
Now the full force of the imperial state appears committed to put the champion of the angry in jail or in debt or both. One needn’t be a Trump supporter to see that this legal war is as despicable and contrived as Julian Assange’s imprisonment.
The pranksters, the subversives, the tellers of Forbidden Truths that you're not supposed to say out loud are on the alt-right and the dirtbag left.
Meanwhile, liberals are finger-wagging scolds so stiff and humorless that that they make The Church Lady look like Johnny Rotten.
This is not because of any inherent puckishness on the part of the right or any natural censoriousness on the left, but is a product of their respective relationships to power.
Your description sounds poetically perched between judgmental fatalism and formula-derived ideology. Neither does anything to improve communication between a cast of flawed plodders with conflicting plans and ideals, but with a common goal to divorce the seats of power from their current occupants.
Dr Cornel West is the only honest player on the pitch, but many of the evangelical right can’t get past his skin tone, and the angriest voices on the right, anti-communist to the core, just want a new boss, and nothing to do with paradigm change.
So I have empathy for conservatives who despise the fraud, and sympathy for the liberals who are afraid to see the fraud, and who don’t know that the ground beneath them has shifted.
Rule of law vs system overhaul. If the illegitimate present can’t convince enough on the right that there is no value in simply changing the players in a fixed game, then not much good can come from making 45 47. But that appears to be where we are heading.
With the way the U.S. is doing empire, I feel forced to agree with Glenn Greenwald, that the most motivated and determined voters demanding reform are those on the far right, perhaps because they are the angriest.
Greenwald analyzes from a left perspective, and he has been cursed by some self-identifying leftists as a Trump dupe, when he is no such thing.
This phenomenon where political labels preempt honest critical thought and discussion is regrettable and only subject to change if honest thinkers refrain from clever put-downs and argue for what they know to be true. Even if it causes some identity crises.
Now the full force of the imperial state appears committed to put the champion of the angry in jail or in debt or both. One needn’t be a Trump supporter to see that this legal war is as despicable and contrived as Julian Assange’s imprisonment.
The pranksters, the subversives, the tellers of Forbidden Truths that you're not supposed to say out loud are on the alt-right and the dirtbag left.
Meanwhile, liberals are finger-wagging scolds so stiff and humorless that that they make The Church Lady look like Johnny Rotten.
This is not because of any inherent puckishness on the part of the right or any natural censoriousness on the left, but is a product of their respective relationships to power.
Your description sounds poetically perched between judgmental fatalism and formula-derived ideology. Neither does anything to improve communication between a cast of flawed plodders with conflicting plans and ideals, but with a common goal to divorce the seats of power from their current occupants.
Dr Cornel West is the only honest player on the pitch, but many of the evangelical right can’t get past his skin tone, and the angriest voices on the right, anti-communist to the core, just want a new boss, and nothing to do with paradigm change.
So I have empathy for conservatives who despise the fraud, and sympathy for the liberals who are afraid to see the fraud, and who don’t know that the ground beneath them has shifted.
Rule of law vs system overhaul. If the illegitimate present can’t convince enough on the right that there is no value in simply changing the players in a fixed game, then not much good can come from making 45 47. But that appears to be where we are heading.