Because older generations tend to be more conservative than younger generations, it looks like people get more conservative with age.
This is, thankfully, untrue.
People get more progressive with age.
It's just that previous generations get a little left behind. The jump between generations is bigger than the progress that happens within people, giving the illusion that older people become more conservative.
@selzero I remember my mom asking me why I care that other folks get access to health coverage and education. I explained that I don't want to store clerk to sneeze over the produce they are setting up in the supermarket, or that I want the people who'll take care of me when I'm old and sick to actually know what they're doing. She got it.
Glenn Kirschner:
Donald Trump compromises our national security & then . . . ruminates on being Speaker of the House.
Kirschner:
“If the law was applied as it is intended to be applied, Donald Trump would be in a jail cell detained pending trial” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbNbTLWx0n8
Our capitalist rulers, and the politicians they own, are playing the long game. Since the 1950s they have been working steadily to shift the Overton window, to reduce the influence of labor unions, to boost consumerism, and to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few.
A large part of that strategy involves privatizing services that used to be (and should be) public.
They're playing the long game, and they are winning — much to the detriment of you and me and the environment we live in.
1: "Well, you have to give your social security number, a picture of the weakest part of your skull, and your home address to Hammers The Clown. You also have to download COVID 19 into your eyeball once per month."
2:"What that sounds terrible what does that have to do with--"
1:"Wow. Ok. HEY EVERYONE THIS GUY HATES CHILDREN!!!!!!!"
By all means, Republicans. Vote for Trump for Speaker so we can have a blue Tsunami in 2024. Show all of America that there is no non-MAGA Republican wing anymore. There are no moderates, no pragmatists, no actual conservatives left — just Trumpists. Admitting who they now are would be the first honest thing Republicans had done in years.
The untold story of mega-mansion maintenance crews. It turns out your typical US$20 million Los Angeles mega mansion costs around US$42,000 each month in upkeep costs: https://youtu.be/k-ImID3kpAg?si=fYZEEr8lLKaSInKi
Equating Hunter Biden's situation with Donald Trump's is like equating shoplifting with armed robbery. The media may be all-in for the false equivalencies, but those of us with the smallest of critical thinking skills can tell the difference. #Politics#uspolitics
all Trump voters expect a pass for being stupid.. you all expect a fucking Excuse Me card at the end of the day, for being fucking stupid enough to vote for that piece of shit.. and you only voted for him because he's a piece of shit just like you, so fuck all of you.. every last Goddamned one of you..
If you are a critical political economist of any persuasion then let me recommend my old friend Paul Cammack's archive of long-form reviews of books on #IPE & related subjects - all with handy ratings & buy/don't but headline recommendations.
Its easily navigable & Paul's judgement is pretty sound. Even if you don't agree with him (it happens) his discussion will be thought provoking & often send you back to the book(s)