During its exhilarating convention, the Democratic Party rebranded itself. It was impossible to miss the sea of American flags, which everyone periodically waved in unison, or the loud chants of “USA! USA!”
It was impossible to miss the frequent paeans to FREEDOM and the signs in the audience emblazoned with the word FREEDOM.
As the brilliant writer Anand Girihadaras wrote on his blog “The Ink,” Democrats reclaimed five words that had been captured by the Republicans:
Freedom. Patriotism. Family. Masculinity. Normalcy.
Governor Tim Walz was a key figure in exemplifying these words. A guy animated by love of family. A coach. A hunter (who favors common-sense gun control). A member of the National Guard for 24 years. A guy.
Kamala Harris, Walz, and others focused on Freedom: the freedom to make your own healthcare decisions, the freedom that comes from knowing that your child will not be shot dead in school, the freedom to afford a home, the freedom to vote. Walz said, on more than one occasion, that the government should not insert itself into your doctors’ office or your bedroom. He repeatedly invoked what he described as a small-town virtue: “Mind Your Own Damn Business.”
Harris and Walz deliberately snatched those words away from the Republicans and claimed them as their own.
At the same time, they doubled down on criticizing Trump for his affinity for tyrants, like Putin. In their display of dignity and patriotism, they contrasted their party with Trump’s unhinged rants and childish personal insults. They emphasized the importance of telling the truth, as Trump tweeted that the next round of a Trump administration”would be great for women and reproductive rights.”
And they showcased JOY, as they laughed and danced in the aisles. The contrast was especially sharp during the states’ roll call vote: Republicans announced their votes to polite applause; Democrats announced their votes to music and dancing and flashing lights. Harris radiated joy, with her vivacious smile and her celebrated laugh. Trump evoked fear, frightening images of a nation in decline, divisesiveness. Which America do you want to live in?
The Republicans spoke wistfully about turning back the clock to a mythical time when America was “great.” An era of white male supremacy? An era of Christian dominance? The Democrats spoke hopefully about a better future, where everyone has the opportunity to live a decent life. The past or the future. Your choice.
The biggest contrast was the difference in the delegates themselves. The Republicans were, with minor variations, the party of white people. The Democrats overflowed with ethic and racial diversity.
Which party is the past? Which is the future?
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Praying they will also be the party that supports public education and teachers of all kids. Hopeful.
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Let’s see. . . three terms of a Democrat in the White House. . . hasn’t happened yet. When they dump the standards and testing malpractice regime we’ll know they actually mean business. Other than that how’d Duncan and Cardona work out for public education?
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Totally hearing you. I choose to still have hope. I find the Vice-Presidential nominee choice to be inspirational, and we’d truly have a friend in the inner circle if the Democrats win.
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Duncan and Cardona: two empty suits.
DeVos: a total disaster.
Let’s hope that Tim Walz gets to pick the Secretary of Ed.
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I loved the mention of public education, occasional ad it was. In my state, success of the Democrats depends on bringing a new generation into the voting booth over the next two decades. That group has been remarkably apolitical during the last 45 years.
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Good morning Diane and everyone,
I know people who still consider themselves Reagan/Bush Republicans even though that political party doesn’t exist anymore. They are mired in that same old stultifying identity and can’t change. It often reminds me of Auden’s poem:
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
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Well observed, Mamie!
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Freedom. Patriotism. Family. Masculinity. Normalcy
The GOP abandoned each of these concepts when they decided to ride on the coattails of a greedy, selfish, morally bankrupt convicted rapist and felon. The GOP talks about freedom, but they deliver control and repression. They wave the flag and pat veterans on the back while they cut veterans benefits. The GOP once was the party of family values, Today they value fetuses, but not children. They routinely reject benefits for children. Fourteen states rejected a federal food program for children this summer as they put politics over the needs of hungry children. The GOP remains the party of the disaffected “basement dwelling” men, but they are also the party of misogyny. They reject body autonomy for women and want to invade their privacy. There is little that is normal or even remotely conservative about today’s GOP. They have no vision for the future other than they want power through any means necessary by dividing us and scapegoating the weak and vulnerable.
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Harris is right to claim these abandoned values that have long been associated with so-called conservatives. Democrats must assert their claim to what it means to be an American. The GOP are hypocrites, and Harris made a strong case for Democrats and their inclusive beliefs at the convention.
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I live in an area that is densely populated with active duty military and retirees. It seems that half the new businesses are called “Patriot” cleaners, lawn service, sandwich shop, etc. Now when I see the word “patriot” on a business, I cringe because it is usually code for an “ever Trumper” and toxic masculinity.
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Retired teacher: it’s a mystery why any military support Trump, who has called them “suckers” and “losers.” His respect for the military is all for show. He’s a draft dodger.
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This is a good idea but it will take more than one news cycle to make this stick.
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A friend who owns four motorcycles, is a hunter and fisherman. licensed gun owner says, “I voted for Trump twice, like Biden he should stepped aside, let’s give Harris a chance.” A trend???
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Don’t know about a trend but what I see out here in the hinterlands, the flyover country, are hardly any tRump (ya know the CONVICTED FELON) signs, flags or posters where in election cycles past they were everywhere. Country folk as a general rule do not like and probably won’t vote for the CONVICTED FELON. I stand by my earlier predictions that the CONVICTED FELON will get 10M less votes in this year’s election than in the past. The CONVICTED FELON has lost many supporters with his unhinged rants and ravings. I find most of his hard core supporters are college educated suburban middle class voters who believe his tripe.
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I was extremely impressed to hear Kamala Harris’s speech. Here is a copy of Elizabeth Warren’s speech. Why would anyone vote for a pathological liar who want to only get more for himself. Musk is giving Trump $45 million each month as a campaign contribution. Musk wouldn’t give away that much money without expecting something in return. [Wealthy people’s taxes will be cut again and the government will make up the difference by cutting Medicare and Social Security.]
WATCH: Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at 2024 Democratic National
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren spoke Thursday on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, an evening focused on the future as Kamala Harris formally accepts her party’s nomination for president.
https://youtu.be/5XJcpuV4lO4?si=-hGk_6tZQoxvgrK1Convention | 2024
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Masculinity? Yikes
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Masculinity: Coach Tim Walz
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Maybe frame it with a new sense of masculinity. A vulnerable, human, supportive masculinity as opposed to a toxic masculinity which is the hallmark of the patriarchal far right.
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LG,
You are describing Tim Walz masculinity. He and his wife Gwen love and protect their son Gus. After he jumped up, as his father spoke, tears streaming down his face, right wingers attacked him in Twitter. They said that Barron was their kind of man. Gus is neurodivergent. Can you imagine picking on a kid who shouts “That’s my dad!”?
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Yes, Diane. Walz has a type of masculinity that the far right cannot reconcile.
Gus made me sob with happiness, and they still made an effort to ridicule him. They are without any humanity whereas Walz is the embodiment of human. They are attacking Walz at every turn because nothing they say about Harris is sticking. What utterly despicable people.
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It’s very interesting. Every authoritarian (and authoritarian society) attempts to nullify emotion, intuition, love and humor and to say these things show weakness when, in fact, they are the burning points of life. And we can see in the difference in energy, emotion, and optimistic impulse to life between the Republican and Democratic conventions. It’s very shrewd to bring this aspect of joy into the Democratic campaign, and I often wonder if this is a conscious or unconscious decision and who it was that came up with the idea to make this a campaign about joy. The energy and show of emotion at the DNC was absolutely striking.
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xoxoxoxxo
Love the way you think, Mamie!
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Like that!
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Bob: I cringed when I read that also. But Walz is also a decorated marksman–they cannot get him on “hating guns” . . . though they didn’t play up that part of it.
But her pick of a no nonsense midwestern white male with buckets of good-ol-American values, his list of relevant experience, even Governor, and not a whif of RW “Christian Nationalism” . . . Walz brings forward and lives what is good about being a white male of the old school, and leaves behind its numerous horrors. And no one is going to ask him for his birth certificate. They are latching onto his visiting China, but that’ll only stick on MAGA zombie heads.
She got that one right. CBK
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People are going to need to get used to Kamala getting stuff right.
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Bob: Yes: . . . a restoration of fundamental . . . not naive . . . trust. CBK
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Amen
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“Masculinity? Yikes”
Not sure what you mean by that comment. Is there something wrong with masculinity?
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Masculinity? What happened to femininity or even humanity, for that matter?
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Joe and Bob: I think the rethinking of masculinity is a return to the idea that a guy can like sports and still vote for a leader who supports good ideas for society. The right defines the term to mean that a guy is feminine if he is studious and logical. Educated softies need not apply. Democrats want to say that you can be masculine and still enjoy a play with your daughter.
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The Democrats would do well to talk more about humanity and a less about masculinity, femininity, gender, race, or any other identity categories that divide rather than unite people.
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I did not hear any talk at the DNC about mas linty, femininity, gender, or race. If you watched, you saw a beautiful mosaic of humanity.
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Good to hear. I mainly didn’t watch.
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Too bad. The DNC was fun and exhilarating. Watch Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech. Nothing about gender or race.
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The Republicans would do well to talk about humanity and less about how they will raise taxes on middle and working class Americans, raise mortgage rates for first-time homeowners to 15%, give billionaires a 50% tax cut, and abolish Medicare and Social Security and punish by death every woman who seeks an abortion or uses birth control. Republicans would do well to talk about humanity and less about how every child must carry their personal assault weapon to school beginning in first grade as protection.
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I think we all can agree on those.
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And yet you wonder why people say it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between Republicans and Democrats.
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I can tell the difference. The Republicans are a cult who think that Trump won the last election, even though he didn’t. The Democrats have plans to protect the environment, abortion rights, and reduce child poverty by re-enacting the Child Tax Credit, which cut child poverty in half.
Sorry you can’t tell the difference.
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What plans? Specifically? Cite your sources, please.
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Why don’t you read the platforms of the two parties. They are very different. Or read Project 2025
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I know this is going to fall on deaf ears, but Project 2025 is a product of the Heritage Foundation and is not Trump’s platform.
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Everyone who worked on Project 2025 worked in the Trump administration.
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Assuming you didn’t know, the policy director for P2025 was Russell Vought, who was director of OMB in the Trump administration. That’s one of the most important jobs in any administration. It shapes the budget and priorities.
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Ali Velshi on MSNBC has been doing a great segment on Project 2025 on Saturday mornings. I also like his Banned Books segment.
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Diane: “I did not hear any talk at the DNC about mas linty, femininity, gender, or race. If you watched, you saw a beautiful mosaic of humanity.”
Yes, all those things were “said” but in a prima facia way. CBK
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“PEOPLE SAY it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between Republicans and Democrats.”
PEOPLE SAY that Ted Cruz’ dad helped assassinate JFK.
PEOPLE SAY that Obama was born in Hawaii.
I read an article about all the Trump words:
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What’s the difference between the parties? What’s the difference between Democratic appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and the GOP appointed Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett for example. The difference of being able to have a legal abortion without being hassled by the morality police, otherwise known as the GOP. That’s a big howitzer difference.
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Actually, Dienne, I don’t know anyone who says it’s harder and harder to tell the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Not one person.
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I know. Because you live in a bubble.
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And you and Trump do not? People in yours and Trump’s bubble are always saying such surprising things! That Obama wasn’t born in the US. That Ted Cruz’ dad helped assassinate JFK. That AOC needs to be locked up. That there’s no difference between the Republicans and Democrats.
Ok, that last one isn’t said by anyone in the Trump bubble – it’s something only people in your bubble say – because there isn’t a single Trump voter in this country who says there is no difference between the parties. They REALLY need the help of someone like you to set them straight!
Please do those Trump voters a favor — please do us ALL a favor — and spend your time fighting to convince every Trump voter that there is no difference between the Republicans and Democrats and that they should be voting 3rd party or not bother to vote. That should be your mission.
I would totally admire your integrity if you did that. And applaud you. Seriously – I definitely think it would be great if you inform lots of Trump voters – especially in swing states – that there’s no difference between the parties. You can explain that if they don’t vote 3rd party, they really shouldn’t waste their time.
Good luck!
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Ya know me, eh! I say that and have for all of this century. Billy Clinton’s policies drove home that sameness.
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“Billy Clinton’s policies drove home that sameness.”
Even if we all conceded that it was impossible to tell the difference between Clinton and the Republicans THEN, that doesn’t support the Dems and Republicans being the same NOW.
Even if the Dems had stayed in the same place as they were when Clinton was president (and I’d argue that Biden moved them at least .0001 inch to the left), today’s Republican party has moved 1000 miles to the neofascist right from what it was. The Republican party that you thought Clinton was the same as doesn’t exist anymore. All politicians who do not swear fealty to Trump’s lies are excommunicated from the party. It’s the Trump party – the con man’s party – and their policies are simply whatever the billionaire right wingers and the Republican politicians they own can convince Trump will also be good for him. (Lucky for them, and disastrous for us is that undermining democracy is good for Trump.)
People reveal their own biases when they see only the “sameness” and not the difference. It’s the same bias that leads to people of one race not seeing the differences between two people of another race. They notice ONLY the ways in which those people look the same and they can’t be bothered to notice the ways in which they look different.
That is true in politics, too. If you only notice the the ways that the Dems and Republicans are the same because that happens to touch on what is important to you, and you ignore all the ways they are different because you don’t care at all about those issues, you might be blind to those differences. And perhaps you can’t imagine that those differences are about issues that might matter A LOT to other people – people on this blog! I have seen people who were angry that Biden didn’t support Medicare for All act but twist their anger into a false narrative where they profess they just can’t see any difference between Dems working to expand healthcare coverage and Republicans working to cut the health care programs we do already have.
I don’t understand those who seem to believe that the people who are harmed or benefit because of the significant differences between the Dems and Republicans don’t exist, because recognizing their existence would not allow them to keep saying that they just can’t tell the two parties apart.
I don’t under people who seem certain that a difference that has no value to them personally gives them leave to proclaim that the difference doesn’t exist. Even Noam Chomsky never pretends it’s impossible to see a difference between Trump being president and Biden being president.
Maybe it’s possible for a person to proclaim that there’s little difference between dogs and cats by focusing only on the number of legs, eyes, ears, and tails they both have. But it seems that they are just being willfully blind to the OTHER ways in which dogs and cats are different.
It makes me think of the parable of the blind men and the elephant. Each one touches a different small part and proclaims with certainty that the elephant is just like a snake or a tree or a fan or a spear or a rope or a wall. “Though each was partly in the right, they all were in the wrong.”
It’s not that you aren’t correct that there are SOME ways in which the parties are alike, but you seem to be willfully blind about all the ways that they are different. Those ways that they are different mean a lot to other people, even if those differences have little value to you.
And how come Trump voters – the majority of the Republican party – are so certain there are big differences? Those differences mean a lot to the people who are most drawn to the hate that Trump is selling. That difference – which is of so little value to you that you apparently don’t even believe it exists – scares most of us a great deal.
Do any of your Trump-voting friends (if you know any) believe you about there being no difference between Republicans and Dems?
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dienne77: Who said it’s harder to tell the difference? Where is that guy lunching? Surely, it’s someplace “out.” CBK
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Few things could be clearer than is the stark choice before us.
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Yes, some of us have been pointing out that the Dims and Rethugs are two sides of the same coin for at least all of this century. But hey why listen to us when the media pounds home that they are different. There is very little difference. It’s an example of Chomsky’s “allowed discourse”.
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Weird to invoke Chomsky, since he didn’t pretend to see no difference between the parties and would probably call out your citing “allowed discourse” to deny that what Chomsky is saying here is true:
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2022-01-25/noam-chomsky-american-democracy-is-in-very-serious-danger.html
“The Republicans are planning carefully to ensure that next time, their coup will succeed. They’re doing it very systematically, perfectly in the open, at the state level where elections take place, trying to ensure that the people who run the elections physically are there when you cast your vote, the election monitors make sure that they are right-wing Republicans, who will ensure that if people vote the wrong way, the vote won’t be counted. The Republican Party is no longer a political party. It’s a neofascist party. The United States is a technologically advanced society, and culturally advanced, in some sectors, but culturally pre-modern in other sectors. That’s Trump’s voters, and he’s a very effective demagogue. He has succeeded in tapping the poisons that run right under the surface in American society, bringing them to the surface, mobilizing them. They are now a group who worship Il Duce, the leader chosen by God. He’s got them in his control. Those are the ones who stormed the Capitol, and are now planning to ensure that next time it’ll work. American democracy is in very serious danger.”
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It’s by no means “weird” to invoke Chomsky on this point because IT HAS BEEN A MAJOR THEME OF HIS POLITICAL WRITING FOR DECADES. Chomsky has LONG held that what difference there is between the two major parties is part of the distraction game that is played to give the people the impression that they are citizens of and participating in a democracy when, in fact, our system is a machine for milking as much as possible from everyone else for the benefit of the uber wealthy, and the leaders of both parties are simply the action figures that the wealthy move about on the board. Chomsky, for example, has called Barack Obama “the worst president for civil rights in our history.” Worse than Millard Filmore, Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Rutherford B. Hayes, Andrew Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Richard Nixon? Wow. And, ofc, of the first 12 American presidents, 10 were slave owners.
I think that Chomsky goes way too far. For decades, almost every major advance in linguistics and in the cognitive science of language was initiated by Chomsky. So, a genius. But his political views are, I think, extremist. And he is and was not a good writer. His writing is dry and wordy and often unclear. He is not a great prose stylist.
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What you cite is within those boundaries he set.
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Here’s what Chomsky actually says on this subject, over and over again:
Noam Chomsky – The Political system in the USA. (youtube.com)
“Democrats and Republicans are two factions of the same party. . . . Do you want to live in a democratic society or in the society we have?
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Chomsky long held those beliefs BEFORE one party became the Trump party.
Chomsky didn’t retract his views or change his mind. He just recognized that the Trump Republican party did have important differences from the Biden Democrats that were extremely dangerous.
Am I deluded that Chomsky never said that FDR’s Democratic party was no different than Herbert Hoover’s Republican party?
It seems very obvious to me that Chomsky has never said that those 2 parties are static and never in their history have they ever been different and never in their history will they ever be different. And I think it is disingenuous to cite him talking about the sameness of PAST Democrat and Republican parties as if he believed the TRUMP Republican and Biden DEMOCRAT party were the same. Read above where he cites the difference. That was in 2022, and I don’t think he is in shape to communicate anymore, but I doubt he would think the Project 2025 Republicans are just like the Biden Dems.
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Of course Chomsky thinks that Biden is preferable to Trump. He has spoken a lot recently about how we are facing an existential crisis, climate change, that could end life on this planet, and that’s what, according to him, makes Trump the most dangerous man in America ever.
That said, it has been a consistent theme in Chomsky’s work throughout the years AND recently, that there is very little difference between the Republican Party and The Democratic Party because they are both support endless wars to plunder the rest of the Earth for the benefit of plutocrats. His major contribution to political theory is that these parties BOTH manufacture consent by pretending that there are major differences between them so that people think that they are participating in a democracy, which they are not.
If you can’t understand how he can BOTH think that AND think that Biden is preferable to Trump, I can’t help you.
Have you ever actually read a book by Chomsky? I have. Many of them. I do not share his politics, but I know what he has to say. I became interested be cause I am an avid student of linguistics and his work there.
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Chomsky doesn’t believe the 2 political parties are static. That’s why he voted for Biden.
Isn’t it linguistic sophistry to imply that he does just because the names are the same?
TODAY, the Republicans are NOT the party of civil rights and Democrats the pro-slavery party just because that happened to be true in 1860 and those two political party names are still in use!!
(Hopefully this will post, since my longer comment is being held up.)
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The gremlins in the netherworld are working hard this Monday, eh!
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Bob, that video is old. Did Chomsky believe that in the 1930s, FDR’s Democrats and Herbert Hoover’s Republicans were just two factions of the same party? Because he seemed to speak positively of FDR’s Democratic party. I always thought that Chomsky was pointing out that after FDR, the Democrats had moved to a place where there was little to differentiate them, but not that the two parties could never be differentiated at any point in the past or future. On the contrary, it seemed as if by 2020, he saw the Trump Republicans as a grave danger to democracy, and did not believe that the Biden Democrats were.
Chomsky may not have believed that the 2020 Democrats had moved back to where they were in the FDR years, but he definitely believed that the Republicans were moving toward neo-fascism and extremism and he knew they needed to be stopped. At least that’s what I take from his publicly endorsing Biden and calling out the Republicans for what they are, a fascist cult.
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Please see my answer to these comments, above. You don’t understand where Chomsky is coming from.
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Chomsky’s views are much closer to Dienne77’s than to yours, NYC PSP.
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Though Chomsky is less forgiving about the Soviets and the Russians under Putin than is Dienne. Chomsky is an Anarcho-Syndicalist, whereas Dienne says that she is a Communist.
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That’s funny, Bob, because Putin is not a Communist.
Navalny exposed his lavish lifestyle. He is said to be the richest man in the world. Putin is a capitalist dictator. I don’t know why Dienne defends him.
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Thom Hartmann also opined on how the campaign is taking back the word “Freedom” from the right wing.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/freedom-takes-center-stage-harris-832?r=ottd6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0ZsNNOZ-qfVdk45bO19pFw7LGiMMBNSP9Wd75gwtgvLd44Pen0taE4Aec_aem_GnqgO7YYHW2QECntaDS-Xw&triedRedirect=true
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Democrats need to reframe the public perception of the economy. which, according to voters is their first or second concern. Poll after poll shows most people trust the GOP more on the economy than Democrats. The facts do not support this belief. Republicans have done more to drive up the debt, and the record of Democrats is better based on jobs, economic growth as well as other indicators. While inflation continues to plague working families, it is corporate America that is behind the price hikes. https://epiaction.org/2024/04/02/economic-performance-is-stronger-when-democrats-hold-the-white-house/
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It’s a New Day of Hope in America!!!
A New Day of uniting again, instead of being divided!!!
A New Day of FREEDOM from the loudmouth oppression of the MAGA Minions!!!
WE ARE NOT GOING BACK!!!
WE ARE NOT GOING BACK!!!
WE ARE NOT GOING BACK!!!
WE ARE FIGHTING BACK!!!
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The speakers, candidates, and attendees look like America, not the cadre of billionaires funding the GOP.
What a refreshing breath of air!
Also, about damn time.
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amen
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I emphatically reject the proposition that there are innate or natural “masculine” versus “feminine” virtues. Human beings are breathtakingly malleable. This is why we occupy almost all niches on the planet and have and have had such varied customs and cultures. You get what you acculturate.
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By the way, if the Superintendent of Schools in Oklahoma would require that schools teach the Hadith in addition to the Bible, the students there would learn that Islam is a religion of peace; that one of the two foundations of Islam, Faith, is described not only as belief but as doing good to others; and that the way to honor is via attainment of knowledge.
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Commentary on the Chapter of the Hadith entitled knowledge:
“The Holy Prophet himself, may the blessings and peace of Allah be with him, made arrangements for the education of women.”
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Hadith III:15
15 Anas said,
The Messenger of Allâh, peace and blessings of Allâh be on him, said:
“The seeking of knowledge is obligatory upon every Muslim.”
Commentary: The words every Muslim include both men and women, while another version [than the translation quoted] adds and every Muslim woman. Its authorities are said to be weak. It should, however, be noted that the more authentic hadîth quoted above also make obligatory upon all Muslims, men as well as women, to acquire knowledge.
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The word “Taliban” means “student.” These students need some remedial instruction on their own texts.
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I wrote today that Harris & Walz represent The New Democrat, persons who embody a humanistic vision of America.
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I believe Trump is trying to wiggle out of debating Harris. He has to know that he is much dumber than she is. Nobody can teach him because he doesn’t learn. [He already knows everything.]
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Trump on Sunday night raised the possibility that he might not show up on ABC, posting on his Truth Social network that he had watched the network’s Sunday show with a “so-called Panel of Trump Haters” and posited, “why would I do the Debate against Kamala Harris on that network?” and urging followers to “Stay tuned!!”
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She would leave, where he was, an orange puddle on the stage.
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