@mcrumps Notice that Stop The Steal people are essentially telling themselves it was real insofar as it was based political action, but everyone else it was just a laugh as far as there are consequences.
No reason to be too forlorn, though.
Americans are a nation. Nations aren't ideals but people. There were Americans in 1776, they've a descended people in 2021. There were Rus in 1380, they were around for 1917, etc.
America will have familiarly American polities, after the US.
@ReinholdRiebuhr@antoniogm@FareedZakaria Furthermore the upper middle class knows how precarious it is;
1) bc they left their own cousins and in-laws in the dust:
https://t.co/QGRy9kYwAz
2) bc they know how insane competition is to stay inside:
https://t.co/Zx8JGODz6e
@ReinholdRiebuhr@antoniogm@FareedZakaria Furthermore the upper middle class knows how precarious it is;
1) bc they left their own cousins and in-laws in the dust:
https://t.co/QGRy9kYwAz
2) bc they know how insane competition is to stay inside:
https://t.co/Zx8JGODz6e
@ReinholdRiebuhr@antoniogm It's not—the middle class has been crushed for decades and its erosion has only been hastened by elite mishandling of coronavirus. @FareedZakaria has a wonderful piece on the lockdown producing remote vs non remote work fortunes, disproportionately crushing Red Staters.
@tcleveland4real@j_arthur_bloom Because they're 'America', in a word, and being part of a national family means compromising. Sorry if this makes you feel upset.
@tcleveland4real@j_arthur_bloom Because there are 75 million of them at least, and they constitute a substantial part of American society, often a much older part of American society than those incumbent in power, including among its military and police, and they are our own US citizens lol.
@CatholicSmark@j_arthur_bloom He didn't see anyone but Trump cancel Kobach. He thought he'd be the Ivy league refined Trumpism whisperer (not the worst idea) who would interface with the world as it is for their demands, to be their better champion. Going after him like Alex Jones is total war/acceleration.
There's absolutely a new War on Terror being initiated -- it'd been lurking for awhile, but it's accelerating now for obvious reasons. This new one is aimed inward, domestically. It entails many of the same frameworks.
They're saying it explicitly:
https://t.co/TUkK0mmMxU
We don’t have good metrics for societal health & wealth.
Main Street has been crushed by cargo cult lockdowns & pandemic-reduced demand — but that doesn’t show up in stock prices.
Distribution of median inflation-adjusted net worths gets closer to a societal wealth metric.
I support diversity & inclusion numerical *requirements* for Black and Latinx voices on boards, in corporate leadership, and upper management at @GoldmanSachs , @RaytheonPolicy , @Facebook and most of all, the highly nepotistic @nytimes company—you should, too.
#EquityNow ✊🏿