I have several Republican friends from college and law school who’ve been going apoplectic over the choices of the leadership of the GOP. They do not believe the replacements on SCOTUS over the years have in any matched the intellectual ability of predecessors.
The media truly has done Americans a disservice and failed miserably to be honest with us.
Dear Robert Reich, and you are dear, please stay healthy and strong. We need you. I agree, Stop calling them conservatives, call them what they really are fascists. Spanish, Italian, and German fascists believed in the might of the wealthy corporations and their wealthy supporters. They all employed white thugs to enforce their "right to rule" They fed their sheep some people to hate, but not the actual perpetrators of their discontent (corporate wealth and their greedy minions), that would be too complicated for their sheep to understand. Nooo, they fed them their version of the enemy, Jews, Slavs, persons of color, homosexuals, persons of lower intellect, backed up by their thugs attacking, arresting these people and throwing them into slave labor camps, concentration camps, or murdering them outright. (Today we throw them in private prisons) If we can't see the parallels between the 20's, 30's and 40's, and now, we're either blind or disinterested. There are a few Conservatives in America, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, maybe Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney. I have no problem with conservatism when it is real, I envy their fiscal restraint, but I have been a progressive since I was 21 in Canada, and this leopard isn't changing her spots after 68 years. We absolutely have to call a slug, a slug., and not a would be snail. The trumpsters are fascists, they have always been fascists, and always will be. I don't know how to impress this on the so-called "mainstream media" whose main interest seems to be selling more air time or more papers. I do contribute monthly to Inequality Media, but since I don't twitter, snapshot, etc. I just hope it is having the desired effect. I write to my local Newspaper, but never get published, since I don't fit in with their concept of 'concerned citizen'. I email my Congressman and both Senators (and do get responses) but not actions. I wish I were 30 again with the stamina and body to go to the streets and protest, but "if wishes were horses...."
Agree. I have noticed news commentators using the term radical Republicans more frequently, so that is good. Maybe we can reinforce that behavior via e-mails to networks.
Because Trump has no ability to understand anyone’s motives other than his own ( new term : simplistic sociopath) he and his flying monkeys
project their own motives and desires onto others.
Their nearly constant use of projection needs to be pointed out when describing their radical, destructive, unpatriotic agenda.
I also think it should be discussed in print and on air that Clarence Thomas clearly had an addiction to pornography, an addiction that those of his hearing committee stupidly ignored despite Anita Hill’s brave testimony. When he was Hill’s boss, Thomas was very interested in watching women having sex with animals and in making Anita Hill uncomfortable while he controlled the conversation. Now Thomas is finally getting to control American women and watch their misery.
He is destroying the rights of privacy so he, as a representative of the government, can peer into the bedrooms of Americans. He is projecting his
own desires onto the role of government.
I know this topic is gross, but it was ignored in 1991 and now has returned to cause women to suffering, pain and humiliation ….and Thomas gets to watch. ( yuck)
We have a large number of people in power who are clearly not psychologically healthy. Trump, Bannon, Stone, MTG, Boebert, Gohmer… the list is long with many possible diagnoses. They gravitate toward the radical right wing Republicans because wackos are welcomed in the party where destroying society is the goal.
These people should not have responsibility for the lives of others.
Words matter. Texas Republicans have suggested "forced relocation" should replace "slavery" in their children's textbooks. The Wannsee Conference gave us "the final solution" while papering over the bothersome fact this solution involved killing people. For centuries now words have been communicated in books which the New Right wants to eliminate because they are an interference to their quest for cultural hegemony.
It is time for us all to stand up for bothersome words, provocative words, words which make us stop and think. Words are the building blocks of civilization and are just as important as the manifold flora and fauna we thoughtlessly extinguish from our planet without any understanding of what we are sacrificing.
I will take the difficult words every day over the gibberish which passes for thoughtful policy from the likes of our former president and his minions.
"Can we get real? There is nothing conservative about these so-called “conservatives.” They don’t want to preserve or protect our governing institutions — the core idea of conservatism extending from Edmund Burke to William F. Buckley and Barry Goldwater. They are radicals, intent on wrecking these institutions to impose their ideology on everyone else."
If you are right on this, this is important. This is also what distinguished conservatives from fascists in the 1930s in Germany.
While tfg (idiota I call him) is a danger to all things, mcconnell is singularly the worst piece of garbage humanoid ever allowed into the halls of congress. Why he is not being tried for treason boggles my mind. Pure scum of this earth! The "conservatives" seek to conserve nothing, other than their wealth and power, planet and people be damned. Same people that nailed Christ to a cross. Same people that want planetary pollution and destruction to be unregulated, same people who want women to relinquish their rights as fully human beings, not just incubators.
I'm so disgusted by "right wingers" that my words just can't say, so SCUM OF THE EARTH will have to do.
Professor, Because your calls for action in your penultimate paragraph largely require simple majorities in the House and Senate, if not yesterday, then tomorrow, we must be laser-focused on holding the House and picking up at least 2 Senate seats. Which brings me to messaging and my belief that Democrats have an extraordinary narrative if only they would deliver it.
Setting aside what Biden and the Party already have accomplished, in my view, the public repeatedly must hear what they would have delivered but for 2 Senate votes (Manchin and Sinema, not to mention every House and Senate Republican). Imagine the impact, for example, were everyday people nationwide asked, “Who do you want here—somebody who doesn’t want to cut the price of insulin or those who do?” “Somebody who doesn’t want to expand the child tax credit or those who do?” “Doesn’t want to provide affordable, quality childcare and universal Pre-K or those who do?” “Doesn’t want to make investments in housing, in elder care, and in climate or those who do?” These provisions and more have passed in the Democratically controlled House. We’re just waiting on 2 more Senate votes.
As a final point, I would note that I don’t simply want the President to support Senate filibuster reform to codify Roe. I want him aggressively to press for a Senate rule change to protect this half-century Court order that later was reaffirmed.
It goes deeper than conservative. Let’s take back the phrase Right Wing because we truly are correct. Vote for a 2/3 democratic senate majority so we can impeach some judges and recover our rightful use of right.
Many years ago, back when our public school taught civics, we learned that citizens have a responsibility, and an opportunity to participate in our democracy. They can let their elected know their view on an issue, or upcoming vote. Citizens can get involved at various levels of government or run for office. Fast forward….I asked my grandchildren if they had civics classes in school. Well not much, if any.
It has evolved, quickly in fact, that Our citizenry are not knowledgeable about governmental or electoral processes. For that matter, as we’ve seen, neither do our elected officials! Which doesn’t matter since Citizens United. Now big business and special interests "hire" candidates to run and do their bidding.
We need just as you suggested a Democracy movement to protect our government and freedom. I hope you will initiate and lead us. Now that gets me excited
Radical Regressives! It's good to have a handle on terminology that is casually tossed around in the media. Conservative no longer (for some time now) describes what the other side of the aisle is doing.
It’s time for the term “radical regressives” to come into common usage.
I have several Republican friends from college and law school who’ve been going apoplectic over the choices of the leadership of the GOP. They do not believe the replacements on SCOTUS over the years have in any matched the intellectual ability of predecessors.
The media truly has done Americans a disservice and failed miserably to be honest with us.
Dear Robert Reich, and you are dear, please stay healthy and strong. We need you. I agree, Stop calling them conservatives, call them what they really are fascists. Spanish, Italian, and German fascists believed in the might of the wealthy corporations and their wealthy supporters. They all employed white thugs to enforce their "right to rule" They fed their sheep some people to hate, but not the actual perpetrators of their discontent (corporate wealth and their greedy minions), that would be too complicated for their sheep to understand. Nooo, they fed them their version of the enemy, Jews, Slavs, persons of color, homosexuals, persons of lower intellect, backed up by their thugs attacking, arresting these people and throwing them into slave labor camps, concentration camps, or murdering them outright. (Today we throw them in private prisons) If we can't see the parallels between the 20's, 30's and 40's, and now, we're either blind or disinterested. There are a few Conservatives in America, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, maybe Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney. I have no problem with conservatism when it is real, I envy their fiscal restraint, but I have been a progressive since I was 21 in Canada, and this leopard isn't changing her spots after 68 years. We absolutely have to call a slug, a slug., and not a would be snail. The trumpsters are fascists, they have always been fascists, and always will be. I don't know how to impress this on the so-called "mainstream media" whose main interest seems to be selling more air time or more papers. I do contribute monthly to Inequality Media, but since I don't twitter, snapshot, etc. I just hope it is having the desired effect. I write to my local Newspaper, but never get published, since I don't fit in with their concept of 'concerned citizen'. I email my Congressman and both Senators (and do get responses) but not actions. I wish I were 30 again with the stamina and body to go to the streets and protest, but "if wishes were horses...."
I can’t get past this:
An underground railroad is being devised for women, in 2022.
Ponder that.
Agree. I have noticed news commentators using the term radical Republicans more frequently, so that is good. Maybe we can reinforce that behavior via e-mails to networks.
Because Trump has no ability to understand anyone’s motives other than his own ( new term : simplistic sociopath) he and his flying monkeys
project their own motives and desires onto others.
Their nearly constant use of projection needs to be pointed out when describing their radical, destructive, unpatriotic agenda.
I also think it should be discussed in print and on air that Clarence Thomas clearly had an addiction to pornography, an addiction that those of his hearing committee stupidly ignored despite Anita Hill’s brave testimony. When he was Hill’s boss, Thomas was very interested in watching women having sex with animals and in making Anita Hill uncomfortable while he controlled the conversation. Now Thomas is finally getting to control American women and watch their misery.
He is destroying the rights of privacy so he, as a representative of the government, can peer into the bedrooms of Americans. He is projecting his
own desires onto the role of government.
I know this topic is gross, but it was ignored in 1991 and now has returned to cause women to suffering, pain and humiliation ….and Thomas gets to watch. ( yuck)
We have a large number of people in power who are clearly not psychologically healthy. Trump, Bannon, Stone, MTG, Boebert, Gohmer… the list is long with many possible diagnoses. They gravitate toward the radical right wing Republicans because wackos are welcomed in the party where destroying society is the goal.
These people should not have responsibility for the lives of others.
Words matter. Texas Republicans have suggested "forced relocation" should replace "slavery" in their children's textbooks. The Wannsee Conference gave us "the final solution" while papering over the bothersome fact this solution involved killing people. For centuries now words have been communicated in books which the New Right wants to eliminate because they are an interference to their quest for cultural hegemony.
It is time for us all to stand up for bothersome words, provocative words, words which make us stop and think. Words are the building blocks of civilization and are just as important as the manifold flora and fauna we thoughtlessly extinguish from our planet without any understanding of what we are sacrificing.
I will take the difficult words every day over the gibberish which passes for thoughtful policy from the likes of our former president and his minions.
Radical Republicans embrace fascism and should be called out by every political leader as traitors to democracy.
"Can we get real? There is nothing conservative about these so-called “conservatives.” They don’t want to preserve or protect our governing institutions — the core idea of conservatism extending from Edmund Burke to William F. Buckley and Barry Goldwater. They are radicals, intent on wrecking these institutions to impose their ideology on everyone else."
If you are right on this, this is important. This is also what distinguished conservatives from fascists in the 1930s in Germany.
While tfg (idiota I call him) is a danger to all things, mcconnell is singularly the worst piece of garbage humanoid ever allowed into the halls of congress. Why he is not being tried for treason boggles my mind. Pure scum of this earth! The "conservatives" seek to conserve nothing, other than their wealth and power, planet and people be damned. Same people that nailed Christ to a cross. Same people that want planetary pollution and destruction to be unregulated, same people who want women to relinquish their rights as fully human beings, not just incubators.
I'm so disgusted by "right wingers" that my words just can't say, so SCUM OF THE EARTH will have to do.
Professor, Because your calls for action in your penultimate paragraph largely require simple majorities in the House and Senate, if not yesterday, then tomorrow, we must be laser-focused on holding the House and picking up at least 2 Senate seats. Which brings me to messaging and my belief that Democrats have an extraordinary narrative if only they would deliver it.
Setting aside what Biden and the Party already have accomplished, in my view, the public repeatedly must hear what they would have delivered but for 2 Senate votes (Manchin and Sinema, not to mention every House and Senate Republican). Imagine the impact, for example, were everyday people nationwide asked, “Who do you want here—somebody who doesn’t want to cut the price of insulin or those who do?” “Somebody who doesn’t want to expand the child tax credit or those who do?” “Doesn’t want to provide affordable, quality childcare and universal Pre-K or those who do?” “Doesn’t want to make investments in housing, in elder care, and in climate or those who do?” These provisions and more have passed in the Democratically controlled House. We’re just waiting on 2 more Senate votes.
As a final point, I would note that I don’t simply want the President to support Senate filibuster reform to codify Roe. I want him aggressively to press for a Senate rule change to protect this half-century Court order that later was reaffirmed.
Yes, the current Republicans are certainly not conservative. And, as you've noted before, the current use of "moderate" and "centrist" makes no sense.
It goes deeper than conservative. Let’s take back the phrase Right Wing because we truly are correct. Vote for a 2/3 democratic senate majority so we can impeach some judges and recover our rightful use of right.
Many years ago, back when our public school taught civics, we learned that citizens have a responsibility, and an opportunity to participate in our democracy. They can let their elected know their view on an issue, or upcoming vote. Citizens can get involved at various levels of government or run for office. Fast forward….I asked my grandchildren if they had civics classes in school. Well not much, if any.
It has evolved, quickly in fact, that Our citizenry are not knowledgeable about governmental or electoral processes. For that matter, as we’ve seen, neither do our elected officials! Which doesn’t matter since Citizens United. Now big business and special interests "hire" candidates to run and do their bidding.
We need just as you suggested a Democracy movement to protect our government and freedom. I hope you will initiate and lead us. Now that gets me excited
Totally agree. And terms like "trickle down" should be called what they really are, guzzle up!
Radical Regressives! It's good to have a handle on terminology that is casually tossed around in the media. Conservative no longer (for some time now) describes what the other side of the aisle is doing.