Much of reactionary politics today is best understood as a Confederate restoration project.
"Trump and his movement are not the rebels storming the gatesβthey are the establishment. ... Itβs time liberals made that clear by embracing an underdog spirit befitting liberalismβs new underdog reality."
Berny Belvedere
Andy Craig
Love this piece by @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com from a few years back.
www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/cr...
I've been doing a one-weekend-a-month training thing and I found out yesterday that I was almost the only one not bringing nuts in my lunch (per the instructions in the first email).
Others: We thought that was just for kids.
Me: There are no kids in this program!
βI am political,β Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention.
βItβs political to believe that children are worthy of love β¦ and that our care shouldnβt stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.β
...in our context of weaponized Interdependence, to deal with the chaos-monkey in the Oval Office. But that is only the smart way in the short-run. In the medium- and the long-run, the interdependent globalized value-chain economic mode world is quietly decoupling from America. Trumpβs... 3/
Jason S. Canon
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Mike Hixenbaugh
Anyway I am defying the deeply rooted daycare/school lunch compliance training and putting the walnuts that are supposed to go in my soup into my lunch today so fingers crossed.
The U.S. Dept of War is run by people who I expect to think that the 1914 Christmas truce was reached by suckers and weaklings.
Brad DeLong
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...which does not mean blindly defending the status quo and standing in the way of fundamental reforms
