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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Pretty feeble argument.
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Better than coming up with these two beauties, as if they make any sense what so ever.
1) Anxiety over globalization and the triumph of corporate giants...
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2) Whipped up by the outrage machine, culture wars have come to dominate political dialogue...
Both are a result of the same group of people, and they are on the far right end of the political spectrum. The problem in the world is that the globalists and capitalists are the same industrialists who argue their interests need greater freedom, at the expense of the very poor they are claiming to be akin to protecting.
It is the whole astroturf Tea Party movement where the uneducated rubes we coerced into believing that good times were just ahead by giving into these robber barons. The coal mines jobs would come back. The manufacturing jobs would come back. Repatriating money from offshore would drive great innovation and more jobs!
As it would turn out, these corporatists did nothing but buy and sell Congress and state legislatures to institute laws that would shelter their profits and allow them to skate on their responsibilities to the greater public. So all of that repatriation of offshore money did not spurn new economic activity, it just generated more profit and more money for the already uber rich. Those jobs in the coal mines and the manufacturing sector never came back, because there are no jobs to bring back. Automation has all but eliminated the very jobs these hopeful fools were counting on.
What these people need is a reality check. Conservatives don't care about them beyond making sure they show up to work to turn a screw and make a product that generates profit. They don't care about their current state or their future state. They don't want to provide an environment where people can better themselves, they only care about profit.
2) The outrage machine operates at two very different levels. Sure, the left has some blowhards, but they are not organized blowhards and they don't affect policy. Conversely, the blowhard mechanism on the right is entrenched into the machine and is mart and parcel of spreading the message and affecting change, both on a societal and policy level. There is a massive industry the right has created to spread lies and disinformation. This is not a situation of both sides being equally responsible for the current sad state of affairs.
Finally, “Always remember... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour