Those of you who have been a part of the Politics Done Right family know that one of my most important tenets is keeping the conversation open on all sides. One of our supporters sent a link to a video by Canadian Right-Winger pseudo-intellectual Jordan Peterson discussing post-modernism and its supposed connection to Marxism titled “Political Correctness and Postmodernism”. And of course, the intent is to scare people away from following the poor and middle-class economic policies; classic Right-Wing orthodoxy. Note that when he talks postmodernism he means Left-Wing or Progressives.
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My reply to this Right-Wing “scholar’s” video in my newsletter was civil but point of fact.
I am just an engineer turned political activist determined to do my part to empower the masses to claim their worth to this society which in the case of America was denied most from its inception. I do not traffic in high-minded platitudes of little consequence to the reality of most.
I find Peterson to be one who uses many words, some that many will have to research given the state of our educational system, but one who has nothing specific to say. His disdain for those who acknowledge our past evils as they propose not just atonement but material restitution is not just appalling but disqualifying.
Peterson attempts to disqualify the Left by asserting they are devout Marxists. He then implies that the policies they want have only been tried by tyrannical states. Of course, he fails to note that the tyrannical states most on the Left would like to emulate are Scandinavian countries. Of course, my belief is that the Scandinavian countries while orders of magnitude more humane than America, still maintain economic systems where the wealthy profit on the intellect and service of the masses. There is a better way.
There is one phrase that he used that is the coup de grace, the expectation to instill the fear of the Left to his listeners, “Resentment and the demand for power disguising itself most reprehensibly as compassion.” Of course, he implies that it is just power we seek.
He forgets.
- It was unfair power used to colonize the Americas. Collective atonement is not a bad thing.
- It was unfair power that affected genocide in the Americas to take the land.
- It was their power that denied the poor, women, & POCs equal rights under the law.
- It is unfair capital power that has created the billionaires not solely from their own intellect, but the composition of our collective intellect former and present.
I could go on and on. But Mr. Peterson used a large cloth of words to shield the reality. The reality is that the masses when empowered will start asking why. Why did they allow themselves to be antiseptic slaves to the few?
This guy made my blood boil. I would love to debate him in an engineering kind of way.
This is the type of battle we will have to continue to fight. It is one of constant education and enlightenment of the population in general. These guys have a lot invested in the status quo that is hurting the rest of us.
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Center for Media and Democracy is way ahead of the curve on exposing the capitalist class right-wing agenda to take over this country. Even the so-called liberal mainstream media like public radio outlets aren’t tumbling to this even though I’ve pitched it to them.
The story on “How the Koch Network Hijacked the War On COVID” ties in with Nancy MacLean’s 2017 book, “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America.”
What the Center for Media and Democracy has figured out is that Charles Koch and his allies are funding is the long-term implementation of a stealth scheme to takeover the United States. It was cooked up in the 1950s. The book’s details convincingly reveal that an economic scheme called “public choice theory” propounded by late economist James MacGill Buchanan has become the driving force behind an effort since the 1950s to remake the United States. The elite’s desire is no less to regress this country to its state in the 19th Century — the Gilded Age and the Age of the Robber Barons. The effort gained major traction in the 1970s, manifested more fervently with the Reagan administration and has moved forward inexorably since then. The long-term goal, which the capitalist class is close to achieving, is to privatize all government services except for police power and national defense. In the context of this story, it has to do with eliminating all public health functions of government.
But know this, too: The coalesced forces now include the Republican-conservative business elite, the Christian radical right and the sympathetic and powerful political class, which includes Gov. Greg Abbott and other Texas politicians. With Abbott’s support, we’re on the cusp of a Convention of the States that will radically change the rules.
As I said, the Center for Media and Democracy has this nailed. I am attaching some PDFs that you and Kotch might want to look over. Please pass this along to him as I don’t see any way to get him live-linked attachments. Thanks for the work you’re doing.
My credentials for this: Now retired at age 76, I earned a master’s degree in hospital administration with a heavy emphasis on economics and social science research. During the 25-or-so years in health care, I was a published author in professional, peer-reviewed journals and consulted on ground-breaking methods for community health planning. At age 50, I made a career change to journalism and in the 22 years garnered a few awards, but most important to me had stories that helped my community and possibly saved lives. Yes, those were health care stories about errant physicians.
support, we’re on the cusp of a Convention of the States that will radically change the rules.
I welcome any response and stand ready to help further this possible story.
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