Gen Z/Zoomers/Zillenneals/Pluralists seem like they are heading the same direction.
Liberal Phrases | Illiberal Phrases |
Middle Class | Surplus Elites, Coastal Elites, Professional-Managerial-Class |
Exploitation | Running ________ like a business |
Activists, Journalists | Liberal Elites |
Elites | Job creators, Middle Class |
Fighting for social justice | Social Justice Warrior, Snowflake, Virtue Signaling, being "Woke" |
Virtue Signaling | "I work 120 hour weeks", "I'm hard core" (based on my observation, the people who say that stuff are actually the laziest) |
Acknowledging the issues with the past (like slavery, Jim Crow, etc.) | Hating America |
Hating America | Making America "Great" Again |
Fascism | Fighting Socialism/Communism |
Job Creators | Upstarts, Wannabes, New Rich, New Money |
Climate Change | Hoax |
Voter Suppression | Suppressing "Voter Fraud" |
Voter Fraud | Stopping the "Steal" |
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Conspiracy Theory | The "Truth" |
Im really enjoying the up coming generation's empathy and understanding of collective bargaining. If more millennials had been able to do that, we'd have been less miserable growing up, but everyone seemed to expect us to just get in line like the generation x...Gen Z/Zoomers/Zillenneals/Pluralists seem like they are heading the same direction.
What makes things worse is that many less educated older people actually become more right-wing as a result of seeing their children not become more conservative. It's the whole "wokeness" trope.
I have a mother-in-law(who is an immigrant herself) who blames immigrants on her daughter not being able to find a job related to her Masters, convinced her husband to vote for Trump (though a life-long Democrat).
You need kind of a dictionary to tease out the double-speak that support the fascistic tendencies being coaxed.
Liberal Phrases Illiberal Phrases Middle Class Surplus Elites, Coastal Elites, Professional-Managerial-Class Exploitation Running ________ like a business Activists, Journalists Liberal Elites Elites Job creators, Middle Class Fighting for social justice Social Justice Warrior, Snowflake, Virtue Signaling, being "Woke" Virtue Signaling "I work 120 hour weeks", "I'm hard core" (based on my observation, the people who say that stuff are actually the laziest) Acknowledging the issues with the past (like slavery, Jim Crow, etc.) Hating America Hating America Making America "Great" Again Fascism Fighting Socialism/Communism Job Creators Upstarts, Wannabes, New Rich, New Money Climate Change Hoax Voter Suppression Suppressing "Voter Fraud" Voter Fraud Stopping the "Steal" ------ Conspiracy Theory The "Truth"
Im really enjoying the up coming generation's empathy and understanding of collective bargaining. If more millennials had been able to do that, we'd have been less miserable growing up, but everyone seemed to expect us to just get in line like the generation x...
The cousins to the sisters of the sons niece's brothers to the Uncle's daughter's father, of the nephew's sister's mothers of the you you're not supposed to use in an essay. but they're all gone now, so that is why everyone's the generalization you get. Let the anvils ring.Who exactly is "everyone" here ?
It's best not to make generalizations, but everyone is doing it. So if one must make generalizations its best to do them where someone will question it...either way further consideration and a deeper line of questioning is always preferable to blind unquestioning hey yeah...outside of a comedy bit of course...and I can remember a time where politics was a higher brow comedy of errors, rather than a farcical comedy of manners threatening to run screaming into authoritarianism.Ok, I suppose that it is then the X factor that is hard to pinpoint.
It's best not to make generalizations, but everyone is doing it. So if one must make generalizations its best to do them where someone will question it...either way further consideration and a deeper line of questioning is always preferable to blind unquestioning hey yeah...outside of a comedy bit of course...and I can remember a time where politics was a higher brow comedy of errors, rather than a farcical comedy of manners threatening to run screaming into authoritarianism.
My immigrant in-laws moved back to their home country a few years ago due to this rising insanity (plus getting told to "go back to your country" by someone in a store). Everything listed above has played out in the past in other countries, it's just happening here now. Lack of education and the ignorance of history that doesn't glorify the US, nearly guarantees it repeating itself.Gen Z/Zoomers/Zillenneals/Pluralists seem like they are heading the same direction.
What makes things worse is that many less educated older people actually become more right-wing as a result of seeing their children not become more conservative. It's the whole "wokeness" trope.
I have a mother-in-law(who is an immigrant herself) who blames immigrants on her daughter not being able to find a job related to her Masters, convinced her husband to vote for Trump (though a life-long Democrat).
You need kind of a dictionary to tease out the double-speak that support the fascistic tendencies being coaxed.
Liberal Phrases Illiberal Phrases Middle Class Surplus Elites, Coastal Elites, Professional-Managerial-Class Exploitation Running ________ like a business Activists, Journalists Liberal Elites Elites Job creators, Middle Class Fighting for social justice Social Justice Warrior, Snowflake, Virtue Signaling, being "Woke" Virtue Signaling "I work 120 hour weeks", "I'm hard core" (based on my observation, the people who say that stuff are actually the laziest) Acknowledging the issues with the past (like slavery, Jim Crow, etc.) Hating America Hating America Making America "Great" Again Fascism Fighting Socialism/Communism Job Creators Upstarts, Wannabes, New Rich, New Money Climate Change Hoax Voter Suppression Suppressing "Voter Fraud" Voter Fraud Stopping the "Steal" ------ Conspiracy Theory The "Truth"
Yet more people who understand political economy. Another perspective on the problem:
Indeed, the fed ensures asset price inflation even when trying to control consumer price inflation. Assets includes housing, a basic human right. Thank goodness that people haven't financialized air. We literally couldn't afford to breathe.
Here's the Hudson paradox:
The Use and Abuse of MMT | Michael Hudson
michael-hudson.com
We definitely need to break up the large monopolies and cartels then force the broken up independent companies to compete.
Hmm?Wait...
Give them time, I'm certain they will monetize everything possible.Yet more people who understand political economy. Another perspective on the problem:
Indeed, the fed ensures asset price inflation even when trying to control consumer price inflation. Assets includes housing, a basic human right. Thank goodness that people haven't financialized air. We literally couldn't afford to breathe.
Here's the Hudson paradox:
The Use and Abuse of MMT | Michael Hudson
michael-hudson.com
We definitely need to break up the large monopolies and cartels then force the broken up independent companies to compete.
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