Post #2914556

2024-12-16 22:05 UTC

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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@wdlindsy@toad.social 2024-12-16 22:06

As Buckle says, following the 2024 election, the media and lots of other commentators defaulted to the easy, lazy, false narrative that "economic anxiety" drives Trump voters: "Far-left radicals, socialists, liberals, centrists, old-fashioned conservatives, academics, mainstream journalists, and everyone else who simply cannot imagine voting for the man themselves, all tend to default to one narrative:" #Trump #economy #race #gender #cruelty #solidarity #CommonGood /3

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@patrascan@ohai.social 2024-12-16 22:24

@wdlindsy@toad.social thank you for posting this article, which I would not have encountered otherwise. So many keen observations, carefully analyzed and explained. Big thoughts for me to ponder.

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@vashafer@bookstodon.com 2024-12-17 18:09

@wdlindsy@toad.social That's the problem. We prize individualism but forget that we have obligations to others.

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