Chris, I have supported you for many years, since I heard you speak at Rockford College.
There is one other demonized group you didn't mentioned - the white working class.
The central premise of Neoliberalism is that racism, mysogyny, and homophobia are the problems with America, in fact the only problems, and that all can be solved by wha…
Chris, I have supported you for many years, since I heard you speak at Rockford College.
There is one other demonized group you didn't mentioned - the white working class.
The central premise of Neoliberalism is that racism, mysogyny, and homophobia are the problems with America, in fact the only problems, and that all can be solved by what Cornel calls "black (or gay or female) faces in high places."
There are many good faith Christian adherents lumped in with the bizzare Christian Zionists and other far right cults. These Christians are good faith social conservatives who are not fascists, although they may adhere to a right to life, the right to bear arms, the right to determine public school curriculum, or a comprehensive legal immigration policy that includes a path to citizenship for persons that rever this country and the rule of law.
In short, I think you overstate both the numbers and the influence of that portion of Christian "Right" that are fascistic. Many in fact are labor adherents and anti-war and recently voted for figures like Bernie Sanders.
Check out Les Leopold's 2024 book //Wall Street's War on Workers (How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do about It)//. Years of research and stats to prove it. Including polls on how white working class attitudes toward gays and race have changed over the decades.
These layoffs are caused by corporations needing $$$ for stock buy-backs; it's good for CEOs and Wall St. stock manipulators, but not for anyone else including the company. A great issue for the Ds. Which, predictably as the party of neolibs, they ignore. Yet by far the majority in the U.S. is working class--less than 30% of the population have 4 year degrees and many who do have jobs that aren't related.
I've encountered dogmatic leftists who insist identities like LGBTQ and BIPOC are mere diversions from working class issues. Comments by white men who've never had to fight to be recognized for what they are nor, for that matter, ever lifted a tool in their lives. I fit both sets of letters and was a blue collar worker and union activist for 28 years. It's not either/or; it's both/ and.
And, yeah, having a few faces in the neolib camp who look like mine does nothing to help. The message of the elite D party is: we don't care about race, gender, or sexual orientation as long as you have the requisite Ivy League education or similar qualifications and connections that separate you from the inferior masses. That "basket of deplorables."
Chris, I have supported you for many years, since I heard you speak at Rockford College.
There is one other demonized group you didn't mentioned - the white working class.
The central premise of Neoliberalism is that racism, mysogyny, and homophobia are the problems with America, in fact the only problems, and that all can be solved by what Cornel calls "black (or gay or female) faces in high places."
There are many good faith Christian adherents lumped in with the bizzare Christian Zionists and other far right cults. These Christians are good faith social conservatives who are not fascists, although they may adhere to a right to life, the right to bear arms, the right to determine public school curriculum, or a comprehensive legal immigration policy that includes a path to citizenship for persons that rever this country and the rule of law.
In short, I think you overstate both the numbers and the influence of that portion of Christian "Right" that are fascistic. Many in fact are labor adherents and anti-war and recently voted for figures like Bernie Sanders.
Check out Les Leopold's 2024 book //Wall Street's War on Workers (How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do about It)//. Years of research and stats to prove it. Including polls on how white working class attitudes toward gays and race have changed over the decades.
These layoffs are caused by corporations needing $$$ for stock buy-backs; it's good for CEOs and Wall St. stock manipulators, but not for anyone else including the company. A great issue for the Ds. Which, predictably as the party of neolibs, they ignore. Yet by far the majority in the U.S. is working class--less than 30% of the population have 4 year degrees and many who do have jobs that aren't related.
I've encountered dogmatic leftists who insist identities like LGBTQ and BIPOC are mere diversions from working class issues. Comments by white men who've never had to fight to be recognized for what they are nor, for that matter, ever lifted a tool in their lives. I fit both sets of letters and was a blue collar worker and union activist for 28 years. It's not either/or; it's both/ and.
And, yeah, having a few faces in the neolib camp who look like mine does nothing to help. The message of the elite D party is: we don't care about race, gender, or sexual orientation as long as you have the requisite Ivy League education or similar qualifications and connections that separate you from the inferior masses. That "basket of deplorables."