Bernie comes out as Trotskyite.
TrashGoblin
joined 3 years ago
Zohran the Relentless.
Asworstos
Unitarians got a lot more militant since the last time I attended their service.
The foreign policy blob has realized that even with a large anti-war movement, they don't really need to manufacture consent. The 2003 marches against the Iraq war were some of the largest in history, and they didn't have any effect on government policy. They may ultimately have led to Obama both winning the Democratic primary and being elected president, given that he positioned himself in clear opposition to the war, which Democrats in 2004 hadn't found the fortitude to do. Once he was in office, of course, things continued as before, the campaign promises forgotten. The blob knows that an unpopular war might lead to the presidency switching parties in '28, but they also know that party switches are never allowed to affect policy.
At this point, for an anti-war movement to have any affect, it would have to be in some way direct-action based, focused on the blob's ability to wage war rather than its willingness.
negative press covfefe
I sometimes think that, but then I go in to the office and discover I'm just as distractable there, but the things I distract myself with there are a lot more miserable and unproductive, like "Hacker" "News", as compared to doing dishes.
Nah, Reagan wasn't even a good actor.
An idea I've seen floating around esoteric circles is "the Evangelical egregore". That evangelicals have created a god in their own image and proceeded to worship it.