Hofstadter was right in so many ways but IMO he was missing something that's consistently missed by most of us: who's behind all this. I very much see the hands of the billionaires, mega-multi-millionaires, and wannabe oligarchs. They don't have the votes, so their only route to power is by manipulating "the masses." They're doing a pret…
Hofstadter was right in so many ways but IMO he was missing something that's consistently missed by most of us: who's behind all this. I very much see the hands of the billionaires, mega-multi-millionaires, and wannabe oligarchs. They don't have the votes, so their only route to power is by manipulating "the masses." They're doing a pretty damn good job, and it's scary as hell. Most USians don't think in terms of economic power. The white southern oligarchs sure as hell did, though: see Heather Cox Richardson's HOW THE SOUTH WON THE CIVIL WAR. I didn't really get this till I lived in the UK in the mid-1970s. Do you ever wonder why the U.S. doesn't have a labor party? Do you ever wonder why everything that suggests economic justice gets trashed as "socialism"? That's what this is about. I think the GOP has overplayed its hand, but I'm very afraid that the U.S. electorate won't get it.
Hofstadter was right in so many ways but IMO he was missing something that's consistently missed by most of us: who's behind all this. I very much see the hands of the billionaires, mega-multi-millionaires, and wannabe oligarchs. They don't have the votes, so their only route to power is by manipulating "the masses." They're doing a pretty damn good job, and it's scary as hell. Most USians don't think in terms of economic power. The white southern oligarchs sure as hell did, though: see Heather Cox Richardson's HOW THE SOUTH WON THE CIVIL WAR. I didn't really get this till I lived in the UK in the mid-1970s. Do you ever wonder why the U.S. doesn't have a labor party? Do you ever wonder why everything that suggests economic justice gets trashed as "socialism"? That's what this is about. I think the GOP has overplayed its hand, but I'm very afraid that the U.S. electorate won't get it.