It's always so easy to blame women, isn't it?

Masto.poetry

@wdlindsy @chiraag
fine, as long as you understand that it is not a democratic or labour label, it is what is today more of a far right Tory or GOP position.
Even as the Clinton/Obama Blair/Corbyn eras moved closer to the center

William Lindsey :toad:

@Mastopoet @chiraag Thanks for providing me with that lecture. I fear you're telling me things I've long known.

lolonurse

@wdlindsy
I do NOT deserve this! I reject this blanket statement.

lolonurse

@wdlindsy
He sought out the depraved, because that is who he is. He sought out and flattered the base & uninformed because he needs & craves adulation & followers. I don't believe it is intelligence. He was raised to be a greedy, self-centered person who denigrates all who he feels are beneath his status. He would never socialize with "his" people. Aaarrghh!!!

lolonurse

@wdlindsy
No matter what @JoyceVance says, I always know she understands, and her views are spot on.

MoiraEve

@wdlindsy Is it a majority of whites… or is it a majority of the whites who actually voted? I want to find out b/c I find it important to note a third of Americans do not vote. They are that checked out. This is why we get trump. B/c of low-participation democracy.

MoiraEve

@wdlindsy Yes, Elon Musk is the top welfare queen who depends on the largesse of the federal government. This is why trump and Project 2025 call for dissemination of career government workers—so they can put their own sycophants in charge.

William Lindsey :toad:

@MoiraEve I myself don't think we can take consolation in the fact that a minority of potential voters elected him — again. Our system is set up for minority control with the Electoral College and unrepresentative Senate at its heart. Republicans long since learned how to game that system. And even if a minority keeps controlling by gaming the system, the minority grows larger each time these folks gain control again. This is the reality of where we are, I think.

William Lindsey :toad:

@MoiraEve Absolutely — that's absolutely right.

William Lindsey :toad:

@lolonurse @JoyceVance Yes, she's sometimes a bit too establishment for me, but I never fail to find her grounded, highly intelligent, insightful.

William Lindsey :toad:

@lolonurse Yes.

William Lindsey :toad:

@lolonurse I think we both know that Elie Mystal is very aware that many American voters did not choose this. The figures are there for all of us to see. But he's identifying a key strain in our cultural history that continues to dominate the thinking and behavior of many of us — and in doing so, reminding us of the value of the perspective of marginalized communities like African Americans who have never had the luxury of ignoring or pretending about that strain.

lolonurse

@wdlindsy @JoyceVance
The thing is (to my way of thinking), in order to be "free" but safe & secure, there needs to be an ordered, reliable, focused establishment. Then we can feel free to be free thinkers, dissenters, artists, inventors, explorers... so I appreciate the grounded, realistic people as much as the more daring ones, because I know they're telling me facts & sensible things. I can only fly if I know where the ground is.

lolonurse

@wdlindsy
His father (Elie Mystal Sr) was the first African American county legislator elected in Suffolk County, NY (Long Island).

David Nice

@wdlindsy There's never just one reason. But I wish the Democrats would stop tearing each other apart. Decide collegially what needs to be changed, but Christ, Nancy Pelosi, really?

Doctor Historianess

@wdlindsy Prof Tisby is super smart and I think he's right about this--especially now that Trump voters are expressing shock that tariffs will actually drive up consumer prices.

William Lindsey :toad:

@davidpnice I am very much with you on that point. It's such a waste of valuable time and energy, so dysfunctional, the tearing at each other. I've been called just about every name in the book here in my feed in the past few days by people purporting to lean Democratic in their thinking, accused of supporting genocide, accused of being a naive "Blue Maga" liberal — accusations that have nothing to do with who I am and what I think. How is that building solidarity resist real evil?

William Lindsey :toad:

@historianess I agree.

Stella C

@wdlindsy @davidpnice I don't get it - we have a very temporary lull. Why waste that time tearing things apart?

William Lindsey :toad:

@lolonurse Great to know. If I remember correctly, he has Haitian roots, too, perhaps on that side of his family.