You raise an interesting point basically about consequences. We are all zones "flooded with shit" and its all turning up 24/7 with no end in sight.
Those who give a hoot are overwhelmed and their energy dispersed in a thousand directions. Goodluck organising any focused resistance. Those who try, find full fat antisemites turning up.
So smart politics by the "do nothing" centrists but not so good for any sort of positive direction.
The 'nationalisation' of social movements isn't new. Since the mid eighties third way parties turned from the left to support neoliberalism and needed something to distract their traditional voters from the decline of labour rights, the welfare state and econonic equality generally. Health care access is too fundamental to be though of a sectional social movement but the surrender of the right to strike over minimum wages in exchange for Medicare is an explicit e ample of the above. Less explicit, and negotiated well out of the public eye if at all, was the surrender of continuous gains in wages and conditions for equal wages and conditions for those of less privileged gender, race sexualiity etc. Sectionalism was encouraged to make us forget about universalism. Lest anyone think it can only be one or the other, sectional interests grew for universalism. We are forgetting this at our peril.
You raise an interesting point basically about consequences. We are all zones "flooded with shit" and its all turning up 24/7 with no end in sight.
Those who give a hoot are overwhelmed and their energy dispersed in a thousand directions. Goodluck organising any focused resistance. Those who try, find full fat antisemites turning up.
So smart politics by the "do nothing" centrists but not so good for any sort of positive direction.
Vance, Runders, Vance! There goes your last shred of Gen X cred.
The Segal analysis is excellent. When did Diaspora Zionists become so witlessly gullible!?!
At least the typo proves Rundle wrote it himself rather than an AI. Or does ChatGPT now include errors to mimic humans?
Won't be long now until it does.......
The 'nationalisation' of social movements isn't new. Since the mid eighties third way parties turned from the left to support neoliberalism and needed something to distract their traditional voters from the decline of labour rights, the welfare state and econonic equality generally. Health care access is too fundamental to be though of a sectional social movement but the surrender of the right to strike over minimum wages in exchange for Medicare is an explicit e ample of the above. Less explicit, and negotiated well out of the public eye if at all, was the surrender of continuous gains in wages and conditions for equal wages and conditions for those of less privileged gender, race sexualiity etc. Sectionalism was encouraged to make us forget about universalism. Lest anyone think it can only be one or the other, sectional interests grew for universalism. We are forgetting this at our peril.
Did you mean straw man in a dress?
I think you need to be over 75 at least to have any memory of the Middle East before the creation of Israel. Says me who is 70