Mr. Neuberger: still confusing Trump with neocon Republicans.
So long as this TDS continues - the reality of Trump's populism is not going to penetrate.
Nor is this TDS helping with recognition that the new American royalty are the credentialed classes: people with merit badges but who are not necessarily meritorious. They can be bureaucrats, they can be politicians, they can be consultants, they can be CEOs but their position is primarily a function of class as opposed to skill or wisdom or even basic intelligence.
Which brings up the next TDS-obstructed fact: Americans don't have problems with rich people who earn it.
Yes, generational wealth should be attacked because the kids and grandkids and perpetual trusts and what not did not earn it.
But what is being attacked today via lawfare and regulatory strangulation and gatekeeping are people who create and operate businesses.
The only thing the Biden administration did right was put Lina Khan in.
The rest was a litany of wars, genocide, inflation and near Soviet levels of propaganda. Good riddance.
There seems to be a huge gap in American politics between what people say they'll do and what they actually do.
Dem presidents, for example, talk the talk about rights and climate and renewable energy, but then spend taxpayer's money on subsidising fossils, building pipelines, refusing rights, and squashing protests. And Biden's support for Netanyahu dumps any pretence of any Dem 'high moral ground'!
I have some sympathy for Americans that say both parties are the same and will do the same things, and I am sure the fact that the rich often support both parties with massive and influential donations is geared to exactly that outcome. There is no doubt that many Dems simply couldn't vote for more genocide, and/or thought there was so little gap between parties that their vote didn't matter.
Unfortunately Trump may well turn out to be disastrously honest for once, when he said the he will be a dictator on his first day (like his forthcoming Jan 20th 2025 Inauguration Speech) and that Americans will never need to vote again.
I wonder what all the political pundits will do if there are no political outcomes that can be changed anymore?
"Rinse and repeat. If no party fixes the country, stops the decline, the parties might trade ineffective populists until something collapses..."
Oddly I've been saying that since the election, in the form "Obama will be the last two-consecutive-term president in US history". Until and unless there is a successful reset, which I can't yet imagine.
We need to define “change” in order to understand what’s meant by a “change election.” The way I read it, is that the change voters want is fixing structural problems that have made it impossible for workers and a middle class to survive. But when we say “change election,” the sense is “change from the last guy.”
When Dems say change it they mean AESTHETIC change. Not structural change.
Dems are 100% headed for minority party status. We’re already there in many state legislatures and this election could easily put the final nail in the coffin on the federal level.
Frankly, I think the Democrats just cashed out. The emerging financial issues look more like a plot to redistribute donations among cronies than an honest effort to win an election.
As a coherent political entity, the Democrat party has ceased to exist. Their values are the values of their donor class. They've been exposed but not in mainstream media so they appeared to be on solid ground when they were actually walking on air with an anvil under each arm.
I have no expectations for Trump but I wish him well in his efforts to smash The Blob. Real Democrats have to put pressure on their party to not fight Trump over needed reforms and instead work with him to clean up the mess the neocon/libs have made of everything.
Mr. Neuberger: still confusing Trump with neocon Republicans.
So long as this TDS continues - the reality of Trump's populism is not going to penetrate.
Nor is this TDS helping with recognition that the new American royalty are the credentialed classes: people with merit badges but who are not necessarily meritorious. They can be bureaucrats, they can be politicians, they can be consultants, they can be CEOs but their position is primarily a function of class as opposed to skill or wisdom or even basic intelligence.
Which brings up the next TDS-obstructed fact: Americans don't have problems with rich people who earn it.
Yes, generational wealth should be attacked because the kids and grandkids and perpetual trusts and what not did not earn it.
But what is being attacked today via lawfare and regulatory strangulation and gatekeeping are people who create and operate businesses.
The only thing the Biden administration did right was put Lina Khan in.
The rest was a litany of wars, genocide, inflation and near Soviet levels of propaganda. Good riddance.
c1ue, I think we have a lot of the same ethic. Where we differ is my distrust of Trump. Not sure he's any kind of populist; he wasn't last time round.
But we'll see. Maybe this time he'll be different. Someone needs to fix this thing. Thanks for the comment. We can watch the show together.
Thomas
There seems to be a huge gap in American politics between what people say they'll do and what they actually do.
Dem presidents, for example, talk the talk about rights and climate and renewable energy, but then spend taxpayer's money on subsidising fossils, building pipelines, refusing rights, and squashing protests. And Biden's support for Netanyahu dumps any pretence of any Dem 'high moral ground'!
I have some sympathy for Americans that say both parties are the same and will do the same things, and I am sure the fact that the rich often support both parties with massive and influential donations is geared to exactly that outcome. There is no doubt that many Dems simply couldn't vote for more genocide, and/or thought there was so little gap between parties that their vote didn't matter.
Unfortunately Trump may well turn out to be disastrously honest for once, when he said the he will be a dictator on his first day (like his forthcoming Jan 20th 2025 Inauguration Speech) and that Americans will never need to vote again.
I wonder what all the political pundits will do if there are no political outcomes that can be changed anymore?
Calling this a new coalition or a realignment defines it as a permanent shift in voting preferences that can't be addressed through policy changes.
I can understand why those leading a party to extinction in a way that makes them personally wealthy would want to continue.
I can't understand why increasingly impoverished voters would permanently shift to their bosses party.
"Rinse and repeat. If no party fixes the country, stops the decline, the parties might trade ineffective populists until something collapses..."
Oddly I've been saying that since the election, in the form "Obama will be the last two-consecutive-term president in US history". Until and unless there is a successful reset, which I can't yet imagine.
We need to define “change” in order to understand what’s meant by a “change election.” The way I read it, is that the change voters want is fixing structural problems that have made it impossible for workers and a middle class to survive. But when we say “change election,” the sense is “change from the last guy.”
When Dems say change it they mean AESTHETIC change. Not structural change.
Dems are 100% headed for minority party status. We’re already there in many state legislatures and this election could easily put the final nail in the coffin on the federal level.
Frankly, I think the Democrats just cashed out. The emerging financial issues look more like a plot to redistribute donations among cronies than an honest effort to win an election.
As a coherent political entity, the Democrat party has ceased to exist. Their values are the values of their donor class. They've been exposed but not in mainstream media so they appeared to be on solid ground when they were actually walking on air with an anvil under each arm.
I have no expectations for Trump but I wish him well in his efforts to smash The Blob. Real Democrats have to put pressure on their party to not fight Trump over needed reforms and instead work with him to clean up the mess the neocon/libs have made of everything.