Hayes Brown, an opinion writer on MSNBC, seems to give Republicans more credit than they deserve.
It’s common to imagine that your opponent is more thoughtful, calculating and sneaky than he really is. Their chaos and disorganization is all part of a clever plot, you see. The trick is to figure it out. Brown thinks he has.
Brown asks why conservatives are upset about the “un-publishing” of six Dr. Seuss books, when they should (he thinks) be uniting against Biden’s COVID bill?
The core of the GOP’s war plan is to go on offense with these skirmishes in the culture war while at the same time focusing on heavy defense and a siege mentality in Washington.
He might be right on the second half of that statement — that the GOP will obstruct and delay and spend two years on defense. But I could only hope and pray that the first part were true. If it were, I might become a Republican!
The GOP hasn’t gone on the offense on any “culture war” issues for a very long time. Not in any meaningful way, that is. They’ll say all the right things in their campaign speeches, and on Tucker Carlson, but they don’t do anything.
Donald Trump did a little to combat wokeism, but much more needs to be done, because the woke are a bigger threat to the country than COVID.
That sounds ridiculous, because COVID kills people, while all wokeism does is divide the country into the intolerably stupid and those who are passive in the face of intolerable stupidity. But wokeism is leading the country towards a form of authoritarianism that will kill a lot more people than COVID.
There’s an ugly tendency is the heart of man that comes out from time to time as pogroms, witch trials, “cultural revolutions” and inquisitions. That’s where we’re headed unless the GOP wakes up and grows a pair.
I think it’s safe to bet against the GOP making good decisions. As has long been the criticism, they seem to think their mission isn’t to prevent catastrophe but to nobly go down to defeat in the effort to slightly delay it.
I think it was discussed here a while ago, and I agree that being Woke is a kind of cult, in the same way that Nazism and Communism are religious. I’m using the definition of ‘religious’ I’ve gone with before, where people want to connect their local actions with an overarching story of the world.
The only good part, really, is that evil is self-destructive. Cancellation for heresy is addictive, and to keep the high they need to keep ruling out increasingly minor deviations from goodthink, making their circles ever-smaller. That doesn’t seem sustainable, but it’s hard to prevent people who just want to watch things burn on their way down.
While I agree that evil is self-destructive, I have had concerns in the past with people (perhaps JPII) who seemed to use “evil will eventually undermine itself” as an excuse for inaction. Wokeness is incoherent nonsense that carries the seeds of its own destruction, but waiting for it to destroy itse;f is the long, hard road, with lots of dead bodies next to it. I’d rather kill it first.
Now there’s a gender-neutral Potato Head. Sean Hannity is really pissed off about it. Don’t just bitch and moan! Boycott Hasbro. And boycott the Seuss foundation while you’re at it. But wait a minute! That would be cancel culture, right?
You’ve got nothing to worry about with Marjorie Taylor Greene on your side.
The little I understand is that Dr. Seuss was not “cancelled.” The Seuss foundation who owns the rights to the books has decided not to republish 6 of his earliest books from early in his career because they contain stereotypical (some might say racist) drawings of Asians or Blacks. IDK. I remember old cartoons that would represent Asians as very slant eyed–exaggerated and almost know eye to be seen…just the slant. It was a typically derogative term to call Asians “slants”. If the Seuss foundation on their own decides they don’t want to republish those 6 books, I guess it’s their prerogative as owners to the rights of the books. You’ll still be able to buy Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, or The Place You Will Go. If I’m wrong, I’m open to correction. But, Fox News or talk radio has to fill hours of airtime on grievances…I guess this helps fill airtime.
The Seuss foundation has every right to do what they want with the properties they control. I’m not disputing that. I’m saying the issue of corporate woke capitalism is a more important issue than the particular details of this COVID relief bill.
Although — having said that — I’ll bet there are lots of hidden turds in the bill.