Policing Speech: Why Does The Far Right Attach To Culture Issues?
The Nazi Republicans have figured out that if they control the culture issues they then can control the politics It’s part of the Republican Nazi propaganda playbook of the current regime For this to be exposed is detrimental to their agenda so when CBS/Fox 2 refused to air an interview done by Colbert with D running for Senate James Talarico(https://bit.ly/3MBeCr1) Colbert’s team put it out on YouTube
As a Guardian article(https://bit.ly/49qifHt) discusses the far right uses seemingly innocent cooking videos or music to engender following the ideology of extremism Even using AI to generated material can be expanded to get out the message to various societal interest groups such as tradwives
So the short answer as to why culture issues are used as propaganda campaign ploys is “because it sells” A study being conducted in 6 European countries on the far right movement is delving into how the far right has used propaganda material on culture issues to “bring people along” in fostering a relationship with various groups in a population They have even started their own food delivery services
Here in the US we have seen similar far right approaches to latch onto various divisive cultural issues such as women in solitary domestic roles, diet issues because America is too fat, LGBTQ+ controversy and transgenders in sports, and even the childhood hits such as SpongeBob Squarepants and colored M&M’s promoted by such channels as the Fox propaganda network For example Fox Sports creates a following of NFL football as an entry point in order to bring the audience along to engage them on far right agenda items
But these issues are just propaganda to distract us from realizing they are picking our pockets, gutting our schools, destroying our healthcare while they give tax breaks for their billionaire donors, pardon the wealthy for convicted crimes and raise taxes on all the rest of us
The real fight is not right vs left, it’s top vs bottom
Ask Californians what they think of Newsom. CA has a HUGE homeless situation and this needs to be addressed everywhere. Affordable housing!!! Please!!! We need mental health facilities again--thanks, Reagan, for dismantling them. And fair tax laws that make sense and are easy to understand. We need boldness, assertiveness, truth to power, and hard working, smart members of the government. Third parties never help. Let's see what this deficit will be after T-rump. Repubs always run it up.. James Talarico has some great messaging--I also wish we could hav a femai=le president in the future! Too bad Bondi and Noem are so bad, and evil.
The real message from Hasan Piker's comment is: it doesn't matter. But I think you said that. All you need to do is follow that through to its logical conclusion: the same forces that tore the GOP apart are now chop-shopping down the Dems for parts. I'm doubtful that the Democratic Party will make it to November intact, but I'm not willing to talk in terms of a "3rd party", since that has always been the non-starter straw-man scenario raised as the reason that the Two Party System(TM) would rule until the sun froze over.
Watching what's happened, just over the last year, with bedfellows getting stranger by the minute and alliances forming around such quaint concepts as 'pro-democracy', I'd say that all bets are off. The best-funded and fastest-growing actors among the New Media are Former Republicans Who Aren't Having It. The Whigs died so the Republicans could rise, then we had a civil war. We've had radical shifts before, so I'm pretty skeptical that we're going to same-old-same-old our way through this particular crisis. The very meaning of the name "Democrat" is way past its shelf life, but maybe the copyrights and branding materials could be repurposed.
Obama always says it correctly. I loved his response to UFO's. Yes, "the truth is out there." The X-Files tag line always works. As to who is favored by Democrats? Might I suggest Dems and others stop eating up people just because! Put your own darn plans out their then build on them. Plans are necessary! All of us on short on the planning. Didn't know about the Zorro Ranch. Good question, Evan, to why it was never searched. It is a wide-open space that may hold secrets. As to Bondi and Noem--irk! Would their firing make a difference? They all in the regime break laws like there are no-tomorrows. But tomorrows do come. Thanks, Evan. Keep writing and take care.
Ohhh, I got some opinions. The X-Files' tag line that captured it best was "I Want To Believe". That has something in it for everybody. That works equally well for tin-foil-hat goofballs all the way to snake-handling backwoods sky-daddy enthusiasts. I'm not well-schooled in this area, but it appears to me that this over-riding need to *believe* is baked into the human condition, like at a genetic level.
So, go ahead, everybody can believe some shit or other. Nobody's going to stop you.
The thing about presidential elections is that predictions about the effect on a candidate of actually being in the Oval Office instead of running for it are as often wrong as right. It is all too easy to make promises and as often all too hard to keep them, even if keeping them was the intention instead of just being an attempt to garner votes.
Being the president of 13 squabbling new states huddled between the Appalachians and the Atlantic Ocean was tough enough, even for the man who held the Continental army intact through eight years of bitter war, but given our current place in the world, the extraordinary risks posed by that world, and our own rankerous polarization, it is hard to imagine why anyone would want the job without an ego so vast as to make its owner as much of a risk as not.
Looking back over the collection of (so far) men who have held the job, the variety of their characters and accomplishments is a wide one. A few qualify as ‘great’, most as at least marginally competent, if not more so (often depending as much on the qualities of their Cabinet choices as on the men themselves), a couple of incompetents, and at least three utter disasters (the third of which is the current occupant).
The question of to whom to give the credit or who to blame for this motley crew is easy - We the People in our collective wisdom. Since at least the 1830’s when our binary political party system was set in cement, WTP have often been hobbled by the process of putting party loyalty above what might be best for the country, Madison’s dream of a variety of competing interests all forced to compromise with each other having gone by the way.
I certainly don’t know what kind of a president Gavin Newsom would make, any more than I can be sure what kind of president Kamala Harris would have made. But we did have a pretty good idea what kind of a president Donald Trump was going to make, and just about half of American voters chose him anyway.
To me the essential problem is that far too many of us simply don’t understand the nature of Novus Ordo Seclorum, the most extraordinary, the most crucial, the riskiest, and the most complex ongoing experiment in human society and government ever attempted. Only when enough of us do understand that are we likely to choose our leaders wisely. Until then , like the famous example of the blind men and the elephant, we will likely continue to choose based only partial understandings. And the history of our choices makes pretty plain how well we have done so far in that mode.
In this current administration, there is no way he fires anyone. The lessons learned from his previous administration -- if you fire someone, there presents a fracture in the staffing and leaks occur because people have been hurt or betrayed. Easier to deal with the loyalty and those issues surrounding than dealing with political fallout.
As always my friend -- its another Fourth & Democracy -- but we're gaining more field position week after week.
LOVE all of your posts Evan and yes we NEED to know the playbook so we know where we're going with all the crap that's happening today. How far will "THEY" go to break the existing laws and how far will they go to corrupt everything that hasn't been corrupted yet!
A robust primary will hopefully find Democrats a popular and widely supported candidate. But for God’s sake people…this is not the time to be flirting with a third Party. And note to ‘ 4th and Democracy ”…try not to recommend programs on Amazon Prime……let’s abandon Bezos’ productions insofar as possible, until and unless he comes to his senses…….
We tried that in 2024 and it got us Donald J Trump. I am encouraged by some of the primary candidates that we have seen in the states, and by some of the freat folks we’ve elected in special elections. I look for some great upset primaries in the midterms, and for a deep bench of folks vying for the presidency. No more taking “D” voters for granted. Wait for it….
To your point, we tried that in 2016 and it got us Donald J Trump.
Some big coalitions of Apostate Republicans and Pissed-Off Democrats have been coalescing around New Media watering holes. Like Lincoln Square. Whatever this thing is, it doesn't have a name yet, and it's gaining on the 'established' parties fast. I actually don't think the "Third-Party" scenario you so fear is what will form, but a wholesale shattering of the parties as we've known them. That TP scenario requires two strong opposition parties to rail against. The GOP is dead and the Dems are dying fast. All bets are off.
I am not convinced that Newsome gets thru the primary unless he repudiates his stance on the billionaire tax in California. The Democrats need to understand what the Democratic establishment and the DC consultants refuse to understand is that the people want leaders who will engage in real structural change which means finding ways to end the vast income inequality that grows worse by the day. And that begins with restoration of marginal tax rates to pre-Reagan levels, a wealth tax on every penny over say $500M, ending tax breaks for second homes, private jets and yachts, lifting the social security tax cap, and once and for all - universal single payer health care. Newsome is not the guy who will champion much, if any, of that agenda.
A tax on wealth rather than income is asset seizure. I guess we could do that, as long as we're clear that's what we're doing. That precedent will clear the way for the State to take whatever you've got in the name of... whatever they decide later it's in the name of. We've gone barreling over one cliff after another under this president anyway, what's another one?
You are being alarmist about a somewhat generalized word used by Evan. Currently billionaires live off of capital gains, taxed at much lower rate than income. The "tax code" is stuffed to bursting with exemptions for people with the money to buy planes, yachts, etc.
If the US does not soon begin to reverse the "wealth pump" sending the goodies to the handful of people at the very tippy-top, we will lurch into disintegration and violence--which will destroy wealth across the board.
Sure, I actually agree. I'm not being alarmist because I'm not saying to not do it. Go ahead. What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter. And that none of us has the slightest clue what's going to happen. Your pronouncements about the "wealth pump" and violence if we don't reverse it is as good as any, so I'll stipulate it as prescient fact.
You might like reading "End Times: Elites, counter-elites, and the path of political disintegration" (2023). For me it explained & clarified troubling developments over my lifetime--the shrinking of the middle class, the chasm of wealth inequality, productivity increasing but the fruits going to the elites. Turchin & multidisciplinary team's work ID'd historical and global patterns of crisis and decay.
Policing Speech: Why Does The Far Right Attach To Culture Issues?
The Nazi Republicans have figured out that if they control the culture issues they then can control the politics It’s part of the Republican Nazi propaganda playbook of the current regime For this to be exposed is detrimental to their agenda so when CBS/Fox 2 refused to air an interview done by Colbert with D running for Senate James Talarico(https://bit.ly/3MBeCr1) Colbert’s team put it out on YouTube
As a Guardian article(https://bit.ly/49qifHt) discusses the far right uses seemingly innocent cooking videos or music to engender following the ideology of extremism Even using AI to generated material can be expanded to get out the message to various societal interest groups such as tradwives
So the short answer as to why culture issues are used as propaganda campaign ploys is “because it sells” A study being conducted in 6 European countries on the far right movement is delving into how the far right has used propaganda material on culture issues to “bring people along” in fostering a relationship with various groups in a population They have even started their own food delivery services
Here in the US we have seen similar far right approaches to latch onto various divisive cultural issues such as women in solitary domestic roles, diet issues because America is too fat, LGBTQ+ controversy and transgenders in sports, and even the childhood hits such as SpongeBob Squarepants and colored M&M’s promoted by such channels as the Fox propaganda network For example Fox Sports creates a following of NFL football as an entry point in order to bring the audience along to engage them on far right agenda items
But these issues are just propaganda to distract us from realizing they are picking our pockets, gutting our schools, destroying our healthcare while they give tax breaks for their billionaire donors, pardon the wealthy for convicted crimes and raise taxes on all the rest of us
The real fight is not right vs left, it’s top vs bottom
Who goes first, Bondi or Noem? I’d like a twofer please!
Ask Californians what they think of Newsom. CA has a HUGE homeless situation and this needs to be addressed everywhere. Affordable housing!!! Please!!! We need mental health facilities again--thanks, Reagan, for dismantling them. And fair tax laws that make sense and are easy to understand. We need boldness, assertiveness, truth to power, and hard working, smart members of the government. Third parties never help. Let's see what this deficit will be after T-rump. Repubs always run it up.. James Talarico has some great messaging--I also wish we could hav a femai=le president in the future! Too bad Bondi and Noem are so bad, and evil.
The real message from Hasan Piker's comment is: it doesn't matter. But I think you said that. All you need to do is follow that through to its logical conclusion: the same forces that tore the GOP apart are now chop-shopping down the Dems for parts. I'm doubtful that the Democratic Party will make it to November intact, but I'm not willing to talk in terms of a "3rd party", since that has always been the non-starter straw-man scenario raised as the reason that the Two Party System(TM) would rule until the sun froze over.
Watching what's happened, just over the last year, with bedfellows getting stranger by the minute and alliances forming around such quaint concepts as 'pro-democracy', I'd say that all bets are off. The best-funded and fastest-growing actors among the New Media are Former Republicans Who Aren't Having It. The Whigs died so the Republicans could rise, then we had a civil war. We've had radical shifts before, so I'm pretty skeptical that we're going to same-old-same-old our way through this particular crisis. The very meaning of the name "Democrat" is way past its shelf life, but maybe the copyrights and branding materials could be repurposed.
Obama always says it correctly. I loved his response to UFO's. Yes, "the truth is out there." The X-Files tag line always works. As to who is favored by Democrats? Might I suggest Dems and others stop eating up people just because! Put your own darn plans out their then build on them. Plans are necessary! All of us on short on the planning. Didn't know about the Zorro Ranch. Good question, Evan, to why it was never searched. It is a wide-open space that may hold secrets. As to Bondi and Noem--irk! Would their firing make a difference? They all in the regime break laws like there are no-tomorrows. But tomorrows do come. Thanks, Evan. Keep writing and take care.
Ohhh, I got some opinions. The X-Files' tag line that captured it best was "I Want To Believe". That has something in it for everybody. That works equally well for tin-foil-hat goofballs all the way to snake-handling backwoods sky-daddy enthusiasts. I'm not well-schooled in this area, but it appears to me that this over-riding need to *believe* is baked into the human condition, like at a genetic level.
So, go ahead, everybody can believe some shit or other. Nobody's going to stop you.
The thing about presidential elections is that predictions about the effect on a candidate of actually being in the Oval Office instead of running for it are as often wrong as right. It is all too easy to make promises and as often all too hard to keep them, even if keeping them was the intention instead of just being an attempt to garner votes.
Being the president of 13 squabbling new states huddled between the Appalachians and the Atlantic Ocean was tough enough, even for the man who held the Continental army intact through eight years of bitter war, but given our current place in the world, the extraordinary risks posed by that world, and our own rankerous polarization, it is hard to imagine why anyone would want the job without an ego so vast as to make its owner as much of a risk as not.
Looking back over the collection of (so far) men who have held the job, the variety of their characters and accomplishments is a wide one. A few qualify as ‘great’, most as at least marginally competent, if not more so (often depending as much on the qualities of their Cabinet choices as on the men themselves), a couple of incompetents, and at least three utter disasters (the third of which is the current occupant).
The question of to whom to give the credit or who to blame for this motley crew is easy - We the People in our collective wisdom. Since at least the 1830’s when our binary political party system was set in cement, WTP have often been hobbled by the process of putting party loyalty above what might be best for the country, Madison’s dream of a variety of competing interests all forced to compromise with each other having gone by the way.
I certainly don’t know what kind of a president Gavin Newsom would make, any more than I can be sure what kind of president Kamala Harris would have made. But we did have a pretty good idea what kind of a president Donald Trump was going to make, and just about half of American voters chose him anyway.
To me the essential problem is that far too many of us simply don’t understand the nature of Novus Ordo Seclorum, the most extraordinary, the most crucial, the riskiest, and the most complex ongoing experiment in human society and government ever attempted. Only when enough of us do understand that are we likely to choose our leaders wisely. Until then , like the famous example of the blind men and the elephant, we will likely continue to choose based only partial understandings. And the history of our choices makes pretty plain how well we have done so far in that mode.
In this current administration, there is no way he fires anyone. The lessons learned from his previous administration -- if you fire someone, there presents a fracture in the staffing and leaks occur because people have been hurt or betrayed. Easier to deal with the loyalty and those issues surrounding than dealing with political fallout.
As always my friend -- its another Fourth & Democracy -- but we're gaining more field position week after week.
Mark Kelly // Pete Buttigeg
I'm down.
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LOVE all of your posts Evan and yes we NEED to know the playbook so we know where we're going with all the crap that's happening today. How far will "THEY" go to break the existing laws and how far will they go to corrupt everything that hasn't been corrupted yet!
A robust primary will hopefully find Democrats a popular and widely supported candidate. But for God’s sake people…this is not the time to be flirting with a third Party. And note to ‘ 4th and Democracy ”…try not to recommend programs on Amazon Prime……let’s abandon Bezos’ productions insofar as possible, until and unless he comes to his senses…….
Sorry. The Democrats don't *do* robust primaries anymore. They're more the "pull a carcass out of rotation and have a coronation" kind.
We tried that in 2024 and it got us Donald J Trump. I am encouraged by some of the primary candidates that we have seen in the states, and by some of the freat folks we’ve elected in special elections. I look for some great upset primaries in the midterms, and for a deep bench of folks vying for the presidency. No more taking “D” voters for granted. Wait for it….
To your point, we tried that in 2016 and it got us Donald J Trump.
Some big coalitions of Apostate Republicans and Pissed-Off Democrats have been coalescing around New Media watering holes. Like Lincoln Square. Whatever this thing is, it doesn't have a name yet, and it's gaining on the 'established' parties fast. I actually don't think the "Third-Party" scenario you so fear is what will form, but a wholesale shattering of the parties as we've known them. That TP scenario requires two strong opposition parties to rail against. The GOP is dead and the Dems are dying fast. All bets are off.
I am not convinced that Newsome gets thru the primary unless he repudiates his stance on the billionaire tax in California. The Democrats need to understand what the Democratic establishment and the DC consultants refuse to understand is that the people want leaders who will engage in real structural change which means finding ways to end the vast income inequality that grows worse by the day. And that begins with restoration of marginal tax rates to pre-Reagan levels, a wealth tax on every penny over say $500M, ending tax breaks for second homes, private jets and yachts, lifting the social security tax cap, and once and for all - universal single payer health care. Newsome is not the guy who will champion much, if any, of that agenda.
A tax on wealth rather than income is asset seizure. I guess we could do that, as long as we're clear that's what we're doing. That precedent will clear the way for the State to take whatever you've got in the name of... whatever they decide later it's in the name of. We've gone barreling over one cliff after another under this president anyway, what's another one?
You are being alarmist about a somewhat generalized word used by Evan. Currently billionaires live off of capital gains, taxed at much lower rate than income. The "tax code" is stuffed to bursting with exemptions for people with the money to buy planes, yachts, etc.
If the US does not soon begin to reverse the "wealth pump" sending the goodies to the handful of people at the very tippy-top, we will lurch into disintegration and violence--which will destroy wealth across the board.
Sure, I actually agree. I'm not being alarmist because I'm not saying to not do it. Go ahead. What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter. And that none of us has the slightest clue what's going to happen. Your pronouncements about the "wealth pump" and violence if we don't reverse it is as good as any, so I'll stipulate it as prescient fact.
You might like reading "End Times: Elites, counter-elites, and the path of political disintegration" (2023). For me it explained & clarified troubling developments over my lifetime--the shrinking of the middle class, the chasm of wealth inequality, productivity increasing but the fruits going to the elites. Turchin & multidisciplinary team's work ID'd historical and global patterns of crisis and decay.