Here’s the whole video. It’s called “Don’t Be A Sucker” and it’s 17 minutes long.
don’t just scroll past this actually watch it, it’s only 2 minutes long. If you re-recorded this today word for word with modern actors and places, it wouldn’t even look out of place as a PSA
Hey y’all, when someone makes a snappy one liner claim about a content creator without providing a source, it’s a pretty good indication they’re full of shit! If you question the claim and see those goal posts start dancing, that another good indication they’re full of shit!
Anyway, now is a good time to bring this back
Scarleteen also posted a great article on evaluating sources and developing critical thinking skills. Next time you see someone shout “Yeah but [X] is a [Thing]!” in notes or retweets, ask them where they got that info then go track it down and look at the source yourself.
“There’s a much quoted proverb in the world of finance that I hate: Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime. I say bullshit to this. Do the poor really not know how to fish? And what good is it to know how to fish if the rights to fish are owned by powerful landlords? And if the river is polluted by upstream tyrants? And what good is it to be taught to fish if the price and distribution of fish is controlled by conglomerate monopolies?””
“[…] the complete and inarguable disaster of the Bush administration—a failure of the conservative movement itself, one undeniable even to many consumers of the parallel conservative media—and his abrupt replacement by a black man, caused a national nervous breakdown among the people who’d been told, for many years, that conservatism could not fail, and that all Real Americans agreed with them.
Rather rapidly, two things happened: First, Republicans realized they’d radicalized their base to a point where nothing they did in power could satisfy their most fervent constituents. Then—in a much more consequential development—a large portion of the Republican Congressional caucus became people who themselves consume garbage conservative media, and nothing else.”
Reblogging to read later, you had me at “they’d radicalized their base to a point where nothing they did in power could satisfy their most fervent constituents.”
I object to the claim that periodicals like The Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, and National Review mislead their readers unintentionally, and given the long connection between the right wing and conspiratorial thinking(The Paranoid Style in American Politics was written in 1964, and you can draw that line further back to the Confederacy, beyond it to Jackson) I don’t think you can really say this is entirely new, or was ever entirely aimed only at “non-elites”, and Reagan is a product of this, not previous to it. BUT, having said all that, this is mostly polemical rather than scholarly and the devs he talks about are new, even if in different ways than he identifies, so is a good piece I think.
“Getting sick of politics is a from of privilege.”
No, getting sick of politics means you’re getting sick of politics and maybe a sign that you need to take a break because maybe humans aren’t meant to be constantly mentally combative you idiot.
Shit like this is why people burnout so quickly.
DING DING DING DING DING!
Being able to ignore politics is a sign of privilege. Having endless reserves of energy to deal with politics is a sign of privilege. Really, one could argue that not getting sick of politics is a form of privilege, since if you’re in a position where nothing that gets thrown at you stresses your ability to endure more of it … well, there’s plenty of people who are catching it worse.
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