The 4th of July passed with little fanfare in the Nelson house; pizza lunch with our kids and grandkids (minus one adventurous vagabond) and to bed before the local fireworks began.
Wrong focus, Steve. The main problem isn't white hegemony, racism, gerrymandering, etc.
It's class. Always has been. And as long as classism exists and dominates where power accrues or can't, class will be our central problem.
Would you feel better if the have nots were getting screwed over by a few billionaires and CEOs of color? How about female billionaires? Lesbian billionaires? Trans billionaires? We already have all of those people. Not helping me sleep at night. Intersectionality won't help us either.
Any political approach that isn't fundamentally aimed at minimizing class power differentials is spinning its wheels and missing the point, much to the delight of the elites. And those elites increasingly include a statistically representative minority of minorities. Who are only too happy to help members of their class, not the identity group they grew up in. Take Clarence Thomas. Please.
To summarize, all white people -- especially white men -- are evil. Got it.
Totally obtuse.
Wrong focus, Steve. The main problem isn't white hegemony, racism, gerrymandering, etc.
It's class. Always has been. And as long as classism exists and dominates where power accrues or can't, class will be our central problem.
Would you feel better if the have nots were getting screwed over by a few billionaires and CEOs of color? How about female billionaires? Lesbian billionaires? Trans billionaires? We already have all of those people. Not helping me sleep at night. Intersectionality won't help us either.
Any political approach that isn't fundamentally aimed at minimizing class power differentials is spinning its wheels and missing the point, much to the delight of the elites. And those elites increasingly include a statistically representative minority of minorities. Who are only too happy to help members of their class, not the identity group they grew up in. Take Clarence Thomas. Please.