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Trump Wins, Cory Doctorow Has Cancer
Cory will be OK, but I'm worried about the USA.
If Trump accomplishes half of what he says he wants to accomplish, we're in big trouble.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/06/us-second-trump-term-threat-rights-us-world-0 President Trump vs human rights
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/05/carcinoma-angels/ from Cory about his cancer
https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5181315 The Dow Jones jumps over 1,300 points after Trump wins the election
This vindicates all the things I wrote about the Democrats screwing up, but that's small comfort now.
First the Democrats were the party of slavery.
Then they were the party of racial segregation.
Then, for a short time, they were the party of labor rights and black civil rights.
Then Bill Clinton took over, and they became, and still are, the US equivalent of Tony Blair's New Labour Party.
So what should progressives do? Migrate to the Green Party en masse? Start a new Progressive Party? Try to do to the leadership of the Democratic Party what Trump did to the Republicans?
I favor a new Progressive Party that would be built around the few real progressives in Congress. The new party should be a labor party. It should be a populist party, fighting the wealthy elite (Musk, Bezos, the mega-corporations, etc.). It should advocate buying locally produced products over imports. It should advocate more local production, especially of semiconductors and other items essential to economic survival. It should advocate international partnerships and treaties designed to end discrimination against certain ethnic and national groups (e.g., Russia should stop trying to end Ukraine, Israel should stop trying to end Palestine, Turkey should stop trying to end the Kurds, all former colonial empires should stop trying to "assimilate" indigenous people, etc.). It should stop attempts to worsen the on-going climate catastrophe. It should oppose government involvement in anything to do with sexuality and reproduction. It should oppose misogyny. Most of all, it should oppose rewarding greed.
Why did Trump win?
I would say, he appealed to blue collar workers more than the Democrats. Think about what that says about the Democrats.
He also appealed to misogynists who can't stand the idea of a female President. Why weren't we expecting this?
He appealed to all kinds of xenophobes, including racists and Christian Nationalists.
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Looking at current western foreign policy writings, it's clear from their atiitude that the west is in full blown world-domination mode, openly talking about subjecting each and every country to its domination - and that with the same spirit of condescension that accompanied western missionaries to China in the 19th century resulting, in the Boxer Uprising and the wholesale slaughter of christian missionaries by the 13th Dalai Llama.
Then, as now, the west was trying to pry Tibet away from China, as part of its global balkanisation.
The modern versions of the Shanghai International Settlement are the special economic zones, followed by, as happened in China, the west claiming parts of such countries as spheres of influence.. there are even such plans for parts of Europe (trans-border economic zones). See also the ECSC
It's as if the 70 years between the 1919 war of intervention in Russia and Yeltsin;s coup was just an interruption - the imperial games can continue, this time as a cartel led by the USA and includes that mostrosity, the "personal union" of the House Of Windsor consisting of the second largest country in the world, a whole continent and lots of crown territories (Cyprus, Gibraltar .. the list is long). (the crown owns the sea bed around the British Isles).. and the broken EU - the UK's ambition of a manageable continent completed - Balance of Power.
And there's still Africa..
#tags? #usa #liberalism #conservatism #imperialism #totalitarianism #corporatism #propertyism #ism-ism ...» #profit #wealth ... any excuse will do
Pluralistic: The true, tactical significance of Project 2025 (14 Jul 2024)
Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/
Many people I like and trust have pointed out that they don't like Biden and think he will be a bad president, but they think Trump will be much worse. To limit Biden's harms, leftists have to take over the Democratic Party and the progressive movement, so that he's hemmed in by his power base. To limit Trump's harms, leftists have to identify the fracture lines in the right coalition and drive deep wedges into them, shattering his power base.
#cory #cory-doctorow #trump #project-2025 #conservatives #democratic-party #republican-party #heritage-foundation #conservatism #biden
of course they think that...
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How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Inside one reverend’s big business-backed 1940s crusade to make the country conservative again.
By KEVIN M. KRUSE April 16, 2015
This is an older, but relevant, article that gives some insight into the rise of Christian Nationalism. It compliments nicely Elizabeth Fones-Wolf's book, The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism (1994). I've only just started The Power Worshipers by Katherine Stewart but highly recommend it. Lastly, I'll include a link to Political Research Associates and their work on uncovering Right-Wing funding.
#religion #ChristianNationalism #RightWing #authoritarianism #conservatism #liberalism #libertarianism #business #fascism
A quotation from Russell, Bertrand
In the main, I think religion has done a great deal of harm. Largely by sanctifying conservatism and adhesion to ancient habits, and still more by sanctifying intolerance and hatred. The amount of intolerance that has gone into religion, especially in Europe, is quite terrible.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Interview by Woodrow Wyatt, BBC TV (1959)
#quote #quotes #quotation #conservatism #hatred #history #intolerance #organizedreligion #religion #tradition
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/63617/
