Context: 'ThePoliticalGame' by #IRLIllustratorCarlosCenoz i.e. https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/The-political-Game-by-CenozBermejo/51121407.LVTDI ?? #TauntBigBusinessCorporateCorporations #GameBoardMonopoly (the original illustration has the Monopoly Banker character where the volcano is in this version).
Supplementary: #AdvocacyILFightingOnlineAntisemitismFOA https://foantisemitism.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Fighting-Online-Antisemitism-Briefing-Note-Antisemitism-on-social-media-platforms-against-the-current-background-of-global-anti-racism-protests.pdf #OtheringHateAntisemitismCaricaturePuppetMaster ? #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryMonkey ?
"You cannot attach ethics to subjectivism!" #OrgClassifPPNLDemocratenD66 #OrgClassifPPNLPartijVanDeArbeidPvdA #OrgClassifPPNLDemocratenD66SigridKaag #PhenomnClimateChange
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPNewtGingrich #BrandDisney #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #OrgUSFedAFMArmyMichaelFlynn
Context: response to tweet: #NMUSFOXFNCSeanHannity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvxmYRNcZ9c #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRickScott #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJohnFetterman
Supplementary: #VlogThroughConversations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqT_5C0H23E&t=55s
#IRLScholarNoamChomsky
#AdvocacyUSBrookingsInstitutionThomasMann and #AdvocacyUSTheAmericanEnterpriseInstituteNormanOrnstein "The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. ...
What happened? Of course, there were larger forces at work beyond the realignment of the South. They included the mobilization of social conservatives after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the anti-tax movement launched in 1978 by California's Proposition 13, the rise of conservative talk radio after a congressional pay raise in 1989, and the emergence of Fox News and right-wing blogs. But the real move to the bedrock right starts with two names: Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist.
From the day he entered Congress in 1979, Gingrich had a strategy to create a Republican majority in the House: convincing voters that the institution was so corrupt that anyone would be better than the incumbents, especially those in the Democratic majority. It took him 16 years, but by bringing ethics charges against Democratic leaders; provoking them into overreactions that enraged Republicans and united them to vote against Democratic initiatives; exploiting scandals to create even more public disgust with politicians; and then recruiting GOP candidates around the country to run against Washington, Democrats and Congress, Gingrich accomplished his goal. ...
The GOP's evolution has become too much for some longtime Republicans. Former senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska called his party 'irresponsible' in an interview with the Financial Times in August, at the height of the debt-ceiling battle. 'I think the Republican Party is captive to political movements that are very ideological, that are very narrow,' he said. 'I've never seen so much intolerance as I see today in American politics.'
And Mike Lofgren, a veteran Republican congressional staffer, wrote an anguished diatribe last year about why he was ending his career on the Hill after nearly three decades. 'The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe,' he wrote on the Truthout Web site.
Shortly before Rep. West went off the rails with his accusations of communism in the Democratic Party, political scientists Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal, who have long tracked historical trends in political polarization, said their studies of congressional votes found that Republicans are now more conservative than they have been in more than a century. Their data show a dramatic uptick in polarization, mostly caused by the sharp rightward move of the GOP."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/2012/04/27/gIQAxCVUlT_story.html And https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/decline-gop/614983/ And https://www.aei.org/articles/ive-witnessed-the-decline-of-the-republican-party/
#AdvocacyUSAmericansForTaxReformATRGroverNorquist
#1973_RoeVersusWade
Addendum: #WebsiteHuffPostLeeMoran "Longtime political scientist Norman Ornstein on Wednesday explained why he believes the 2024 election is likely to go down as 'the most significant and most destructive' in America's history.
The United States has previously chosen 'bad' and 'incompetent' presidents, Ornstein acknowledged to Zeteo's Mehdi Hasan.
But, reflecting on Donald Trump's victory, Ornstein pointed out that 'we have not elected a president who has made clear during the campaign that he will be a dictator on day one and will destroy or shred the Constitution to whatever degree he feels it is necessary.'
'Even worse,' continued the emeritus scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank, are Trump's 'enablers around him from the Supreme Court through the other institutions.'
'My fear is not just Donald Trump, it is that the guardrails we have built up over two and a half centuries are not going to hold,' he added.
Later, Ornstein expressed his concerns that normal restraints on Trump just don't exist. 'Maybe the worst won't happen, but it's going to be damn close,' he warned." https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/norman-ornstein-2024-election-donald-trump-win_n_672c87e5e4b01cfbdad3d9b4 #IRLJournalistMehdiHasan #VlogZeteo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aWc43M6q8E&t=56s #IRLSecurityAdvisorOliviaTroye #PoliticsAuthoritarianismDictatorship #2024_USPresidentialElection #OrgUSFedAFMArmyMichaelFlynn #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #BrandAmazonJeffBezos #BrandMetaMarkZuckerberg #BrandFDRLSTMediaTheFederalistSteveMiller #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #PowerControlRegulationDeportation #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyKamalaHarris #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #AdvocacyUSChildrensHealthDefenseRobertFKennedyJr #OrgUSFedCentersForDiseaseControlAndPreventionCDC #OrgUSFedFoodAndDrugAdministrationFDA #OrgUSNtlInstitutesOfHealthNIH #OrgUSFedNationalWeatherService #BehaviourSchadenfreude #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPLizCheney #TheoryBiasPartisanship
#MemeFickiFiona i.e. #TauntLeftThe versus #CharacterisationRightWing + #SymbolEmblemFlagUSConfederate #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives #TheoryBiasPartisanship #BehaviourApathy
Addendum: this music video: #2024_TomMacDonaldMeVsYou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=najeyO0CuXw reminds me of the same sort of argument, centring the belief that political difference (in this case between #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty.s and #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOP.s) is opposite but equal - cancelling each other out i.e. a #CharacterisationZeroSumGame. The point that 'politicians are all the same' also feels very #BehaviourDefeatism.ist (saying something about the lack of #PhenomnAgencyEmpowerment that is presumably, felt by those who are making the statement). The obvious question to ask is about who benefits from this position i.e. who's interests does disengaging from politics serve?
I'm thinking here of #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump's misjudgement where be infamously told the #OrgClassifGrpMilitiaUSProudBoys to #PleaStandBackAndStandBy and then followed on by condemning #CauseAntifa in relation to #PoliticsNationalismWhite violence at the #2017_UniteTheRightRally in #ToponymAmericaNorthUSVirginiaCharlottesville, where he sought to #BehaviourNormalisation.e (and therefore, #BehaviourTrivialisation.e) the violence with his statement: "you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides" https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trumps-very-fine-people-both-sides-remarks/