he speaks from the privileged throne of a male...who probably in reality doesn't give a fuck about anything but himself and doesn't not know what the fuck he is talking about
You're saying that being a male negates a person's point of view?
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he speaks from the privileged throne of a male...who probably in reality doesn't give a fuck about anything but himself and doesn't not know what the fuck he is talking about
The current US presidential election shows, perhaps better than anything else, just how far that decadence has gone. Hillary Clinton’s campaign is floundering in the face of Trump’s challenge because so few Americans still believe that the liberal shibboleths in her campaign rhetoric mean anything at all. Even among her supporters, enthusiasm is hard to find, and her campaign rallies have had embarrassingly sparse attendance. Increasingly frantic claims that only racists, fascists, and other deplorables support Trump convince no one but true believers, and make the concealment of interests behind shopworn values increasingly transparent. Clinton may still win the election by one means or another, but the broader currents in American political life have clearly changed course.
It’s possible to be more precise. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, in stark contrast to Clinton, have evoked extraordinarily passionate reactions from the voters, precisely because they’ve offered an alternative to a status quo pervaded by the rhetoric of a moribund liberalism. In the same way, in Britain—where the liberal movement followed a somewhat different trajectory but has ended up in the same place—the success of the Brexit campaign and the wild enthusiasm with which Labour Party voters have backed the supposedly unelectable Jeremy Corbyn show that the same process is well under way there. Having turned into the captive ideology of an affluent elite, liberalism has lost the loyalty of the downtrodden that once, with admittedly mixed motives, it set out to help. That’s a loss it’s unlikely to survive.
Over the decades ahead, in other words, we can expect the emergence of a postliberal politics in the United States, England, and quite possibly some other countries as well. The shape of the political landscape in the short term is fairly easy to guess. Watch the way the professional politicians in the Republican Party have flocked to Hillary Clinton’s banner, and you can see the genesis of a party of the affluent demanding the prolongation of free trade, American intervention in the Middle East, and the rest of the waning bipartisan consensus that supports its interests. Listen to the roars of enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump—or better still, talk to the not inconsiderable number of Sanders supporters who will be voting for Trump this November—and you can sense the emergence of a populist party seeking the abandonment of that consensus in defense of its very different interests.
What names those parties will have is by no means certain yet, and a vast number of other details still have to be worked out. One way or another, though, it’s going to be a wild ride.
seemslikeadream » Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:19 pm wrote:Rory » Thu Sep 29, 2016 11:10 am wrote:The vaginas of a load of third world/brown/Muslim/Russian/Slavic women don't want $hillary to win. How's that for your 1st world, white privilege
*in the most surreal imagery I've contended with this sunny morning
he speaks from the privileged throne of a male...who probably in reality doesn't give a fuck about anything but himself and doesn't not know what the fuck he is talking about..and won't pay any price for his words anyway
take your crap and put it were that sunny morning doesn't shine...how's that for surreal imagery?
why don't you just take care of your own house before trying to clean up mine?
talk about what your country has done to third world/brown/Muslim/Russian/Slavic women
Rory » Wed Sep 28, 2016 3:04 pm wrote:http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2016/09/the-worlds-fixated-on-trump-but-hillary-could-drag-us-all-into-a-catastrophic-war-writes-peter-hitch.htmlHow odd it is, to hear on the air the faint but insistent sound of coming war, here in this place of sweet, small hills, rich soil and wistful, mountainous horizons.
Men came here in search of what we all really desire, to be left alone to get on with the really important aims of life, to build a home and raise a family, to see the fruits of their labour, to believe what they wish to believe.
I cannot quite work out how the good, sane impulse that gave birth to the USA could possibly have led us to this nightmare
seemslikeadream » Thu Sep 29, 2016 6:04 pm wrote:misogynistic men making excuses for misogynistic men
Searcher08 » Thu Sep 29, 2016 1:17 pm wrote:seemslikeadream » Thu Sep 29, 2016 6:04 pm wrote:misogynistic men making excuses for misogynistic men
Oh, ok time for a fight, Cushla!![]()
That is utter nonsense.
Equating the view Rory put forward with Trump's attitude is rubbish.
Clinton is itching to make Moscow glow in the dark.
We Came
We Saw
They Glowed
I don't want to glow in the dark from fallout in 2017 TYVM, but hey, <Vagina>!
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