Thursday, January 05, 2023
Commentary: An American Awakening
The seemingly novel developments of the last several years have not taken me by surprise. When I completed American Awakening in May 2020, the national election was still five months into the future, and the stringent measures ostensibly instituted to hold the Wuhan Flu at bay had just been implemented. I thought then that a Democratic Party victory in November 2020 would promise the American electorate a return to normal politics, but in fact would operate on the basis of what, in American Awakening, I called the politics of innocence and transgression; and that if Joe Biden became the Democratic Party nominee, in order to demonstrate that he was the-right-kind-of-white-man, he would champion this sort of politics.
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Well, that wasn't a quick read. Conservatives are long on words and short on action.
ReplyDeleteThe commentary writer Joshua Mitchell is mistaken. "The veneer of moderation, of adult politics, would not long conceal the inner logic of radical communist, totalitarian, anti-Christian, anti-American, depraved, ideology, identity politics, according to which white, Christian, Conservative, Sisgender, heterosexual men—the current prime transgressors in the identity politics dystopian moral economy—"
ReplyDeleteThere.............I fixed it for the writer, Joshua Mitchell.
Author sounds Woke up.
ReplyDeleteWas recently hoping for a Democrat restoring normalcy to anything? Joe Biden?
GFY.
Agreed. He is just trying to make an argument that black folks still have legitimate claims against white USA while homo's, transgender mentally ill folks do not.
Delete40 acres and a mule went to Ukraine last year.
DeleteJoshua Mitchell deserves an answer to his first question: "Can Anyone Save the Democratic Party"?
ReplyDeleteNo! It's a few cracked, crumbling teeth and powdery, calcined bones that lie in a smoldering hot pan that once held a fleshed body.
Typical professor, takes a paragraph's worth of ideas and spews forth a book. The real tragedy of today's racial/identity politics, mainly run by whites, will rebound in an outpouring of racism onto onto the minorities.
ReplyDeleteDon't know about you guys, but I'm sure as hell not in favor of anything normal in the demorate party. It's my wish they would just go away! These guys are EVIL!
ReplyDeleteHe places his hope in the '60s hippies, whom he breaks into two groups, the naive, and the intimidated. He left out the far larger group: the dead. Usually for iatrogenic reasons.
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