Okay so full disclosure: I haven't seen the movie "Don't Look Up." I don't have much patience for movies; I tend to reduce the whole of a movie to the director's viewpoint, and resent the restrictions upon my imagination imposed by the medium of film (as opposed to print, in which I am obliged to imagine nearly everything depicted).
On his substack a few days ago, Matt Taibbi asked his readership: "I want to do a book review. What should I review?" In response, it appears that the most vocal portion of his readership voiced their support for "greats" such as Ayn Rand and Jordan Peterson.
First we have Kate Aronoff, writing for the New Republic, who tells us that "Democrats’ Fear of the Green New Deal Is Tearing the Party Apart." Well, from reading her article it does seem a mystery why they're so against it, except of course that those who are for it are challenging their hold on power a little bit. Here's a telling segment of this piece:
When I criticized the Facebook "Clash against the Right" group on Facebook:
The group "Clash Against the Right" is not really against the Right -- they're totally fine with the Right, as long as its patrons have the magic (D) symbol next to their names.
I received this response:
-- in, you guessed it! Commondreams.org! As usual, though, it's hard to tell whether or not he's talking them down or building them up.
1) Everyone is totally engaged in a debate over whether or not Donald Trump is a "fascist." Maybe he is.
From the War Resisters Website, a screed by Joey Ayoub, a nice liberal with a big ego:
Leftists and anti-authoritarians have a responsibility to vote out Trump
This is kind of a footnote diary. I suppose that, given my last commentary on the Presidential election, I need to explain my use of the term "nice liberals with big egos." This is the group that thinks they're really doing something substantive by getting all panicked about Donald Trump in front of Left audiences.
