This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural, March 4, 1861
That is the path I trod. Doing very well in school and on college entrance exams, doing well in college and then well on the LSAT for law school. My brother and I were the first from our extended family to go to college. Take this avenue of advancement away from the children of poor white families, and hysterically damn them for the “privilege” of being born with white skin, and you have all the makings of a social powder keg among the majority of the population. Almost of all of wokeness can be understood if viewed as class warfare by radicalized upper class whites against their hated enemy: working class and middle class whites who stubbornly refuse to vote the same way as the elites. The war against the police and the attempt to turn the military into a politicized engine of oppression are all part of the same class warfare against institutions where working class and middle class whites have long dominated. Pour vials of wrath down upon the heads of a section of the population long enough, engage in policies that impoverish them while mocking their most cherished beliefs, attempt to steal elections from them while ceaselessly working to enact a rigged system that will make political servitude their lot forever, and violent revolution is inevitable. We are dancing on the precipice of an abyss and our blind leadership is completely clueless.
Clueless? Nah, they do this for our own good.
Setting aside the snark a moment, who here has heard of nudge theory?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory
A lot of the modern left may not make sense unless you know it.
A lot of the modern left may not make sense unless you know it.
It doesn’t make much more sense after reading that. The chap who owns Masterpiece Cakeshop isn’t being nudged.
Low-to-moderate income Asian- and Jewish-Americans are hardest hit.
Hello, Mr. Lincoln!
They can’t be voted out. Revolution is the only option.
Re: Mask Confusion. I like my mask. Infiltration. Revolution.
Art, sometimes I wonder if you ever go outside.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_Insights_Team
In fact look on the side bar there and note what they list under “nudge theory”. Things like…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_Care_Act_tax_provisions
The whole idea behind the theory and operation is for you to not notice it.
https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2018/05/01/hostile-environment-the-dark-side-of-nudge-theory/
Yes, I go outside.
That people are encouraged to do things via tax incentives and product design is nothing novel and not particularly sinister. It is a problem if the tax preferences &c generate rent-seeking an patron-client relations.
Someone harassed by public agencies for refusing to subscribe to the regnant preferences of the professional-managerial bourgeoisie is a problem and merits agitation on his behalf.