Is "Alt-Right" Part of a Political Realignment Strategy?

Submitted by k9disc on Sat, 09/10/2016 - 11:22am

So "alt-right" has become a buzzword. I guess it's the politically correct term for Mouthbreather™ (hat tip to the former Mike Malloy). I just heard it a few weeks ago, and it seems to be everywhere these days.

It seems that there has been some care to point at the "alt-right" for the woes of America and the Republican Party.

It's almost as if the regular old Right bears no responsibility for stoking the Tea Party and pushing inhumane public policy.

I just wondered why, about 5 minutes ago (hat tip to caerus).

Seems to me that this would be an awfully simple and elegant way to cleave off the Nativists from the more sane and reasonable Econ and Social conservatives and bring them into the distinctly non-progressive Democratic Party.

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Submitted by riverlover on Sat, 09/10/2016 - 11:35am
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I guess Hillary did that yesterday without calling it alt-right. Just defined it in other terms.

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Submitted by k9disc on Sat, 09/10/2016 - 12:11pm
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Alternative Right.

TINA, 2016.

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Submitted by lunachickie on Sat, 09/10/2016 - 12:02pm
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We've all been cleaved off and set adrift, for daring not to slobber over Her Heinous. Thing is, didn't the Right already do this to Tea Party Republicans? I don't understand the difference between them and "alt-right", actually--and I'm trying to figure out what I've missed.

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Submitted by k9disc on Sat, 09/10/2016 - 12:09pm
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Republicans after the last 8 years, in particular, but it goes back to the early 90s.

I said that the only reason Republicans hated Bill Clinton is because he stole their sponsors and peddled conservative policies.

The alt-right thing just struck me as an interesting messaging tactic, part of a larger rush to the corporate center political strategy. A strategy by the Democrats? Say it ain't so.

I also feel you about being cleaved off. I've said for a while we were going to experience the tyranny of the corporate center and the "crazy" right and the "naive" left would be cleaved off as "unserious".

Here we are.

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Submitted by Bollox Ref on Sat, 09/10/2016 - 12:15pm
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was something to do with a computer keyboard.

Deplorable on my part.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Submitted by k9disc on Sat, 09/10/2016 - 12:21pm
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I'm a bit bummed I didn't jump to this conclusion. I am usually a bit quicker on that.

The thing is that I was hearing about it in the "Progressive" news sphere. Which is starting to be a bit more of an ideological minefield than it was a few years ago.

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Submitted by riverlover on Sat, 09/10/2016 - 12:22pm
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As long as the smooshy 50% center stays intact. I don't think it's that together.

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Submitted by k9disc on Sat, 09/10/2016 - 12:28pm
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some sort of public humiliation and be politically ostracized, but this framing seems to absolve the puppet masters who pulled the strings.

Not only is it absolving them of their responsibility for the hateful extremism, but it's doing so to curry their favor and bring them under the Democratic Big Tent.

The message for Nov will prolly be, "Commies and the Alt-Right are Trump's bread and butter and stand in the way of civil society."

It's gross. And it's probably going to be very effective.

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Submitted by Hawkfish on Sat, 09/10/2016 - 7:03pm
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I wrote about this from a historiograpic perspective the other day and came to much the same conclusion.

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Submitted by k9disc on Sat, 09/10/2016 - 9:14pm
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Loved it, for sure.

The message is a dead giveaway.

I have been talking about this realignment since 2007 or so, calling it the tyranny of the Corporate Center. I looked for some dates on dKos, but I can't search anything under my username. Looks like my search history has been wiped... kind of weird.

Anyway, just thought the message was super interesting and a checkpoint towards corporate tyranny.

peace~

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Submitted by native on Sat, 09/10/2016 - 2:49pm

everybody from Henry Kissinger to Madonna under the same roof, waving the flag and making merry. Singing all hail the Queen for saving the status quo, while ravening hoards of ill-educated miscreants mill around outside, threatening to crash the party.

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Submitted by neoconned on Sat, 09/10/2016 - 8:50pm

The Freikorps and the Sturmabteilung both come to mind.

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Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.

Submitted by lotlizard on Sun, 09/11/2016 - 10:14am
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the mainstream consensus opposing them — encompassing all the major parties across the board — is turning out to be demonstrably wrong on some vital issues.

One example: up till now the mainstream consensus has tried to play down the danger of Turkish political strife (e.g. incipient civil war with Kurds?) being imported to Germany. The consensus also sees no threat to democratic norms in the Turkish community’s divided loyalties.

Reality could be starting to diverge starkly from this rosy picture.

http://www.hr-online.de/website/derhr/home/presse_meldung_einzel.jsp?rub...

According to investigations by the Hesse TV news show “DeFacto,” the German edition of the Turkish newspaper Zaman — which has been critical of the Turkish government — will cease publication on 30 November 2016. Following threats against subscribers, advertisers, and staff, Zaman Germany is halting operations. “People show up at our subscribers’ homes, threatening them that if they continue to subscribe, there’ll be trouble,” says Süleyman Bağ, editor in chief and general manager.

A million militant Erdogan followers — not a yuuuge problem for Western Europe?
http://www.dw.com/en/thousands-of-pro-erdogan-protesters-rally-in-cologn...

Visa-free travel and EU membership for Turkey? Not a problem?

Rapid EU expansion; NATO wars and preparations for war; the refugee crisis; the behind-the-scenes string pulling linking all of these — voters at all different levels of political literacy can see that the establishment’s answers don’t add up.

Edited to add:
“Child marriages” in Germany
361 married persons younger than 14
1,475 foreign married minors are registered in Germany. 1,152 of them are girls. More than one out of two comes from Syria

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