So, I was doing some thinking about accusations that have been flying thick and fast about anti-Hillary folks. And it seems to me that some academics and political opinion makers are in such a privileged position that they don't really see what the ACTUAL racists are up to. With their obsession of seeing the racism in everything, they manage to avoid seeing what the real Nazis are up to.
John Lennon said that life is what happens to us while we're busy making other plans. We're having a primary where the coronation got interrupted by an insurgent. That was unexpected, but it quickly became clear that the insurgency could grow into a Democratic schism. One side is corporatist, neo-con, and neo-liberal. The other side is progressive, democratic socialist, and peaceful. "All we are saying is give peace a chance."
On the other side of the American divide, their ideological madness is splitting the GOP into a racist, corporatist, and global side and a racist, christian-dominionist side. The leader of the christianist side is, ironically, Drumpf, with the yet more dangerous Cruz at his heels. Cruz is a traditional racist, a lawyerly blower of dog whistles. Drumpf,on the other hand, is a Freudian carnival of ego gone amok. As the Democratic sides separated into a catholic and protestant side, Drumpf's drumbeat of racist incitement overwhelmed not only the GOP primary race, but the entire 2016 election. The bitter harvest of ancient hate and a decade of racist incitement against one of the most accomplished of all American presidents is in. Now. In real time. Spring may be in the air, but in the American psyche, it's fall and the bitter harvest is in. Drumpf's race-baiting is now the defining feature of the 2016 election. Life happens while we are busy making primary plans. So, what does all of this mean for Bernie?
There appears to be two lines of thought developing about how to deal with fascism that has become a part of Trump’s election strategy. One is that we don’t address it now as it may affect Sander’s electoral chances and the other is that we tackle it head on now. Spoiler alert - I am a firm believer of the second approach.
Not sure where or how to use this, so I am putting this out here for everyone to use as they see fit...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/8741148/Dick-Chene...
Dick Cheney heaps praise on Hillary Clinton
A lot of people lately have been commenting on how the anti-Trump protests could hurt Bernie Sanders' election chances. I thought I would share my views on this issue from the perspective of a campaign manager. Caveat: this is not my *moral* opinion on how things are or how they should be. This is my political opinion of the effect of anti-Trump protests on Sanders' electoral viability.
A few points about the situation:
This is done with Trump's actual quotes from his speeches...
| Happy Pi Day |
| Today’s number is 14, but I’ll throw in some Pi first |
| Pi is sometimes approximated as 22/7, giving it a link to 14 via the link between 1/7 and 1/14 to be discussed later |
| BUT! Pi, like modern politics, is irrational, it never ends. |
| We learn circles as kids; |
"What is a LEADER?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"
Erkenntnisfaehigkeit, distilled into its parts, is recognition-ability. It is often translated cognitive ability. Yet recognition and cognition need not be coextensive.
It is not the ability to recognize patterns per se, but the ability to recognize that we recognize something. What does this mean?
We are...
