In short, the position I’m talking about is that people like Trump are the natural consequences of institutions that were always designed to benefit rich white men above everyone else.
In short, the position I’m talking about is that people like Trump are the natural consequences of institutions that were always designed to benefit rich white men above everyone else.
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It’s looney. Tankies like that go great lengths to act as if something less than perfect is as terrible as the plague, at least when American/Western European nations are concerned.
There is some truth but it’s an exaggeration
its nonsense. It’s like saying if you cheat at a board game you’re playing the game as intended – you’re not, by definition.
‘Institutions’ are not a monolith. We have a panopoly of institutions, each controlled by a variety of individuals, each with their own perspective and goals.
There is a survivorship bias though. The institutions which survive long-term and grow to become huge & powerful tend to be the institutions which benefit hegemonic power-structures and maintain the status quo.
If the argument is why do things like DGP look great, but people increasingly can not afford basic necessities … than yeah. I wouldn’t know how else to describe that.
I’m in a lot of leftist circles, and that’s not why Harris and Clinton lost. That’s not the operating theory for most leftists. Maybe a few who genuinely drink the Koolaid that it’s all only about gender and race.
But almost all leftist political ideologies depend on class unity that goes deeper than race and gender.
When the Democrats became the establishment party they inherited the position of having to defend the status quo and the western institutions; institutions, that may not need to be torn down completely, but are leaving far to many people behind.
We are going to see how their stance pans out because before our eyes, our institutions ARE being torn down. They are just being torn down by the Right, and that wasn’t 100% on my bingo card.
If we are going to wrest democracy back here in the States, once we do…it can’t go back to BAU. We clearly need more safeguards and fewer gentlemen’s agreements surrounding the presidency.
Audrey Lorde had a point, but people want to swing way too close to authoritarian communism for my taste.