RE: The Crazy Left Keeps Coming...Please. Don't Stop.
October 25, 2017 at 9:16 pm
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2017 at 9:27 pm by Seraphina.)
(October 25, 2017 at 2:30 pm)Crossless2.0 Wrote:(October 25, 2017 at 1:38 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: As noted above, the Right doesn't want change, they want retrograde movement back to the point they're comfortable with, somewhere about 1960, before Kennedy was elected President. Too many people becoming too equal for them to be at all happy with the current situation.
'The Right' isn't some homogeneous thing spontaneously growing among working class whites who want to see the clock rolled back. It's a highly coordinated, extremely well financed, hierarchical campaign of disinformation on the part of financial and corporate elites and aimed at the working class people the elites need in order to win and hold political power. The media and "ideas" infrastructure these people have put into place in the past forty-odd years is well documented and includes think tanks that provide "intellectual" cover to right-leaning lawmakers; well funded corporate studies that provide bogus 'scientific' findings to counter legitimate science (think climate change); a concentration of media outlets in the hands of an ever dwindling number of players; an army of public relations consultants whose sole purpose is to figure out how to reframe public discourse to serve the interests of the 1%; etc., etc.
The people behind this movement are not by any means stupid. They know exactly what they're doing. It's the marks, the people at the grassroots -- those working class "folks" -- who get roped in by the movement's rhetoric who are the fools. Time and again, they dutifully shuffle out to vote in ways that are demonstratively not in their interests. The genius of it all is that these same people not only don't realize they're being played, but they think they are exercising the highest, most principled reasoning when they parrot the same carefully crafted and paid-for talking points they've been fed. They do the bidding of people who wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire but who will happily pander to their inflated self-image (The Hard Working American People Who Know Better Than Those Elites), stroke their egos, inflame their sense of fear and insecurity, and validate their cultural resentments -- the better to keep them from thinking about what could be legitimate class resentments.
Add in a sub standard education system that doesn't teach the kiddies critical thinking skills and you end up with adults who accept the Dumpster fire of a society and political system we have in the US today.
-Teresa
(October 25, 2017 at 4:05 pm)FFaith Wrote:(October 25, 2017 at 3:47 pm)Shell B Wrote:
"Limiting speech offensive to minorities," while not my cuppa, is not the same as being "anti-free speech."
Yes, it is the same thing. Free speech does not mean only speech that you agree with.
I have to agree with that and courts adjudicating First Amendment issues would generally agree with that too. Slanderous speech and inflammatory speech that incites violence is another ball of wax, though.
Also, I have to say that the current president is a far greater threat to our freedom of speech than some liberal college students. He has the power to push for actual laws that could affect your and my freedom to speak our minds. A few 19 year olds at a liberal California university - who probably don't even vote, sadly - don't have that same power.
-Teresa
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