Post #2221406
2024-12-16 22:04 UTC
Toby Buckle offers (to my way of thinking) stellar analysis of what's going on politically as large numbers of Americans, our media, and corporate leaders jump with alacrity on the Trump bandwagon: it's not the old "economic anxiety" canard.
Rather,
"Our country has been captured by a force that has its own ideas about our future. One that is ancient, compelling, and evil."
#Trump #economy #race #gender #cruelty #solidarity #CommonGood
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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/a-disease-of-affluence/
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@wdlindsy@toad.social 2024-12-16 22:05
To be specific: "Americans are prosperous, but without any deep sense of obligations to others. We are a highly commercial, individualist people, and when we let go of even a thin liberal conception of the public good, we become nasty, petty, small, vindictive and irrational." #Trump #economy #race #gender #cruelty #solidarity #CommonGood /2
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@crouton@aus.social 2024-12-17 02:11
@wdlindsy@toad.social its a pretty dark take. I don't know if its a perfect thesis but so so many parts of it strikes a chord here in Australia as well, to perhaps a lesser visible degree.