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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoDriving in Circles - Sarah Kendzior’s Newsletter2024-03-03T05:59:21+00:00
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https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374605445/whentheclockbroke
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https://thedigradio.com/podcast/long-land-war-w-jo-guldi/
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https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-how-big-tech-went-to-shh
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcBNfYWSw9w
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https://thedigradio.com/podcast/empires-workshop-with-greg-grandin/
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https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
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https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/economist-writers-last-true-believers-in-neoliberalism-by-j-bradford-delong-2023-04
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https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-essay/2023/03/gramsci-florida-republican-party
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https://techwontsave.us/episode/155_the_untold_history_of_silicon_valley_w_malcolm_harris
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https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-the-right-kind-of-worker-with-gabriel-winant
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https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-on-barbara-ehrenreich
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https://thedigradio.com/podcast/modern-housing-w-gail-radford/
robertogreco2022 housing us publichousing catherinebauer gailradford policy politics economics nyc harlem homes newdeal 1937 socialdemocracy socialhousing modernism property wagneract greatdepression 1920s 1930s danieldenvir pwa publicworksadministration fha federalhousingadministration privatization investment homeownership construction banking foreclosures finance building via:javierarbona labor laborhousingconference fanniemae history society meanstesting poverty markets capitalism socialism section8 ronaldreagan wealth 1980s housingprojects social mortgageinterestdeduction fdr franklindelanoroosevelt publicassistance individualism reagandemocrats philadelphia incarceration homelessness harlemriverhouses gardenapartments hopevi 1990s thedighttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c1e45534c1b3/Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin Kelley, and Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò · The Dig2022-09-11T02:00:26+00:00
https://thedigradio.com/podcast/ruth-wilson-gilmore-robin-kelley-and-olufemi-taiwo/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCjUccnSFU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQs-J3houJA
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https://bostonreview.net/articles/christopher-petrella-reagan-created-mlk-day-because-he-hated-mlk/
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https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/martin-luther-king-jr-dialectics-materialism-and-the-black-radical-critique-of-racial-capitalism-with-andrew-j-douglas-and-jared-a-loggins
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-wAzluojyU
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/opinion/green-new-deal-texas-blackout.html
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-10-30/how-toxic-individuality-is-tearing-the-u-s-apart
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OGYc7cvKo
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https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/higher-ed-in-crisis/
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https://newrepublic.com/article/159233/end-university
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsxukOPEdgg
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https://twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/1270426367495155722
robertogrecoNun, 83, and two other activists guilty of intrusion at nuclear complex
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — An 83-year-old Catholic nun and two of her fellow peace activists were found guilty Wednesday of intending to harm national security when they intruded in July onto the Y-12
The mission of Plowshares activists is encapsulated by this quote from Richard T. McSorley, a Jesuit pacifist & POW during WW2: “The taproot of violence in our society today is our intent to use nuclear weapons. Once we have agreed to that, all other evil is minor in comparison.”
The Catholic Worker & Plowshares movements have long seen the intersectionality of bloated weapons budgets, our intent to use nukes, racism, state violence & poverty. When they protest nukes they are protesting what they see as a cause/amplifier of injustice, violence & poverty.
These activists, many of whom are 70+ years old, have been in the streets for 50+ years. They would see a link between the knee on George Floyd’s neck, the shove of Martin Gugino, the maintenance of a Minuteman missile, the militarization of police, the racial lines of poverty.
P.S. I see Twitter trolls—carrying the mantle of J. Edgar, Nixon & now Trump—trying to slander Gugino as a “professional protester/agitator.” But that’s what devoting yourself to activism means: You agitate. You show up. You walk the walk, peacefully but firmly, as a way of life.”]]>2020 danzak martingugino catholicism protest plowshares catholicworker nuclearweapons blacklivesmatter acabspring activism pacifism weapons poverty injustice socialjustice intersectionality policy peace peaceactivism us isaiah ronaldreagan armsrace war donaldtrump dorothyday jedgarhoover swordsintoplowshares kingsbayplowshares arrest imprisonment richardmcsoreley jesuits evil racism race violence police cops catholics christianity bookofisaiah fatherphilberrigan philberrigan audreywatters via:audreywattershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:878a4824f2c7/How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change - Wikipedia2020-04-30T00:26:55+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Let_Go_of_the_World_and_Love_All_the_Things_Climate_Can%27t_Change
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https://communemag.com/take-care/
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https://www.ft.com/content/198135c8-6912-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcca75?fbclid=IwAR0lIHOczZdyst3qLLrKybJb6bKhXxHTg-BQ9IKUBAzNKyoThqdC6NCf8qU
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https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-millennialgen-z-strategy
robertogreco(1) The unemployment rate among recent college graduates in the U.S. is now higher than our country’s overall unemployment rate for the first time in over two decades, (2) More than 40 percent of recent college graduates are working jobs that do not traditionally require a bachelor’s degree (while one in eight are stuck in posts that pay $25,000 or less), and (3) the median income among the bottom half of college graduates is roughly 10 percent lower than it was three decades ago.
This is the millennial (and Old Gen-Zer) reality: an “anchor of student debt,” as Levitz puts it, taken out in the hopes of achieving fabled economic security. But who convinced us that college was going to solve, well, everything? In the book I’m finally finished writing on millennial burnout (actual cover coming soon, I promise) I try to work through that question: how did we come to believe in “(the best) college at any cost”? (See also: grad school at any cost).
A lot of the answer can be traced to “the education gospel,” a term coined by an economist (W. Norton Grubb) and a sociologist (Marvin Laverson) to describe the nexus of ideologies (about the future of America and democracy; about how to beat the USSR, then Japan, then China; about how the economy could replace the manufacturing jobs displaced by globalization) that undergird “college at any cost.”
Grubb and Laverson chose the word “gospel” to evoke just how ideological integrated — how naturalized — the idea had become. Of course more education is better than less education; of course you should go to college by any means necessary — even when the costs of that college outweigh the benefits, despite increasing evidence that college is not “worth” its cost for those who drop-out, or for those who come from lower-class backgrounds. They point to a study from the National Commission on the High School Senior year, released in 2001: “In the agricultural age, post-secondary college was a pipe dream for most Americans,” it declared. “In the Industrial Age, it was the birthright of only a few. By the space age it became common for many. Today, it is just common sense for all.”
The roots of this “common sense” go back to the mid-20th century, when the government decided to create the grant and loan programs that made it much, much easier for people to go to college. In 1947, 4.2% of women and 6.2% of men had a college degree; in 2018, those numbers had risen to 35.3% and 34.6% — but that’s of the entire population. A more useful statistic is the percentage of high school graduates who immediately enroll in college: which, in 2016, was 69.7%.
And here’s where the stats become really telling. For the group of students who started college — any type of college — in 2011, only 56.9% had finished their degree by 2017. Around 70% of graduates have student debt of some sort; in 2016, the average debt load was $37,172. That’s a huge amount of debt, especially given the fact that it’s $20,000 more than it was in 2003.
But that’s the people who have degrees. If you reverse the completion stat above, you realize that 43.1% of students who started college in 2011 had not finished their degree in six years. These are students who believed that college could be a pathway towards success, of stability, or their dream job — but couldn’t make it work. There are so many reasons why people are forced (or choose) to drop out of school, and some do find success and stability because they quit school. But they often have nearly as much debt as those with a degree but none of the credentials to put on their resumes — which helps explain why they’re three times as likely to default on their loans.
The institution that pisses me off the most in this scenario are for-profit colleges, where only 23% of students graduate, and 48% of those who do leave with more than $40,000 in debt. A whopping 52% of student loan defaults come from graduates of for-profit colleges. If you don’t know about the general scamminess and ethical grossness of the for-profit college, I can’t recommend Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Lower Ed enough (you can buy it here, and read an excerpt here).
But if college is theoretically an “equality machine,” then for-profit colleges are inequality machine: they target first generation students, they disproportionately enroll (and fuck over) students of color, they charge massive amounts of money for degrees and education that could be obtained for far less at local community colleges, they jack up their price to the maximum allotted under loan guidelines, and they get away with it because 1) Betsy DeVos and 2) millennials have been so inculcated with the education gospel that, again, we believe that no matter how much it costs, how difficult it will be to complete a degree, how tight the market might be in the field we’re pursuing, the degree itself will be worth it.
To be clear: people with college degrees make more, statistically speaking, than people without college degrees. But the “equality” component of the machine is broken. There’s a massive gap between the promises that floated around that degree — and that includes graduate degrees — and the lived post-degree experience. We’re not talking about liberal arts graduates ski-bumming until they decide they’re ready for that six-figure job. We’re talking about those 40% of graduates working jobs that don’t even require a college degree, and the one in eight working jobs that pay $25,000 or less.
I’ve talked to and heard from hundreds of millennials in this position. If they have loans, they’re either on income-based repayment (and they’re convinced that they’ll be paying them off forever), in default (with reverberations and shame across the rest of their lives), or in deferment (amassing huge amounts of interest). They feel stupid and ashamed that they took out as much money as they did, or pissed that so many forces in their lives — parents, guidance counselors, professors, culture, peers — assured them that it would all work out, if they could just get that degree. It’s hard to convey just how difficult and devastating it is to pay down a broken dream every single month for the rest of your life.
I’ve written extensively about student loans, and the broken state of the student loan forgiveness program, here. That piece was the first thing I wrote after the original millennial burnout article, because it was the most tangible expression of the gap between what millennials were told their future would look like, if only they worked hard enough, and the lived, post-Recession reality. To understand millennial burnout, you can’t just understand the amount of student loans we’re carrying; you have to understand what they feel like. And if and when you understand that, it’s incredibly straightforward to see why so many support Sanders and Warren.
Back in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, middle-class boomers and young Gen-Xers were faced with the reality that their parents’ broadly stable middle-class existence would not necessarily pass down to them. The so-called Golden Age of American Capitalism had lasted just long enough that those who grew up under it could believe that it might last forever. They responded to the decline in stable middle class jobs in a number of ways: many of them, too, went to college, but because public institution funding had yet to be gutted by tax cuts, it cost much, much, much less. (Cue: your boomer uncle who loves to tell you he worked his way through college and graduated without loans).
But as Barbara Ehrenreich persuasively argues in Fear of Falling, they responded by turning decisively inward: how can I do whatever is possible to help me and mine? You could work tirelessly at cutthroat, soulless jobs (investment banking!) no matter the cost (to yourself, to your family, to the environment, to society), adopting what Ehrenreich calls “the yuppie strategy.” Or you could vote for politicians who promised to lower your taxes, make your life better, regardless of the effects on those who didn’t act and spend and look like you. (See: the widespread embrace of Reaganism). As Levitz points out, in 1984, 61% of voters under 25 voted for Reagan. Conservativism — think Michael J. Fox as Alex Keaton from Family Ties — was, I dunno, cool? Not actually cool, but very much mainstream.
The strategy makes “sense,” in so far as it was motivated by self-preservation and fear. And a whole lot of millennials were raised by parents who lived through, if not fully embraced, the guiding ideologies of that period. But it’s fascinating to watch as millennials and Gen-Z — — faced not just with the fear of falling, but the widespread reality — embrace a profoundly different one."]]>genz millennials generations geny education highered highereducation debt studentdebt boomers wnortongrubb ericlevitz unemployment employment wages loans unschooling deschooling educationgospel marvinlaverson ussr coldwar japan china highschool inequality commonsense investment parenting betsydevos nonprofits nonprofit forprofits capitalism berniesanders elizabethwarren barbaraehrenreich ronaldreagan reaganism conservatism familyties alexkeaton michaeljfox tressiemcmillancottom race generationz generationy learning babyboomers zoomershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a06148b61430/Let Them Eat Tech | Dissent Magazine2020-02-16T23:02:37+00:00
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/let-them-eat-tech
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https://newrepublic.com/article/155970/collapse-neoliberalism
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/08/left-is-the-new-right-or-why-marx-matters/
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https://blog.ayjay.org/how-i-drew-my-mental-map-of-politics/
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjkwj/how-democrats-became-the-party-of-monopoly-and-corruption
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https://www.thenation.com/article/wendell-berry-essays-library-of-america-review/
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/america-without-family-god-or-patriotism/597382/
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https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2003/oct/16/under-our-perfect-sun-man-finds-trouble/
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/education-isnt-enough/590611/
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https://nplusonemag.com/issue-34/politics/spadework/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8nZvhsEvhQ
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/12/elizabeth-warren-profile-young-republican-2020-president-226613
robertogrecoWarren’s academic career soon took a turn that made her far less comfortable with unfettered free markets. Prompted in part by a surge in personal bankruptcy filings following the passage of new bankruptcy laws in 1978, Warren, Sullivan and Westbrook in 1982 decided to study bankruptcy in a way that was then considered novel in academia: by digging into the anecdotal evidence of individual filings and traveling to bankruptcy courts across the country, often rolling a small copy machine through airports along the way.
Whatever their take on "capitalism" or "socialism," I'm here for leaders who understand how American capitalism in its current form (since the late 1970s; "neoliberalism") has completely failed—both morally and technically.
In the presidential field, there are exactly two.
The intellectual damage of the 1980s is intense. It's immensely to Warren's credit that, as a young woman untenured professor then, she realized—through fieldwork—that she could not in conscience enforce the ideology.
And everyone who went to elite colleges in the US in the 1980s needs to be scrutinized. I remember intro economics in 1985-86. Martin Feldstein preaching the catechism to 1,000 young minds in Sanders Theatre. Midterms where you "proved" why rent control was bad. Deadweight loss!
Three years later those young minds were lining up for "recruiting" as Goldman, Morgan, McKinsey et al swarmed the campus to usher them into the golden cage. This shit happened quickly, people. It's a wonder anyone escaped.
People shaped in the 1990s, with the neoliberal foundation cushioned by Clintonite anesthesia, post-Cold War complacency, and the mystical arrival of the internet, are no better. Probably need even more deprogramming. That's why the arrival of the AOC generation is SUCH A RELIEF."
https://twitter.com/NYCJulieNYC/status/1120080930658557952
"Not everyone. A lot of college students in the 1980s were committed activists, from those involved in Divestment from Apartheid South Africa to ACT UP to activism against US policy in Central America."
https://twitter.com/siddhmi/status/1120081603403898886
"Indeed. I was one of them! But that doesn't mean we didn't get coated in the zeitgeist. We all need periodic cleansing."]]]>elizabethwarren mindchanging politics research listening 2019 berniesanders siddharthamitter billclinton 1990s 1980s ronaldreagan economics martinfeldstein neoliberalism 2000s us policy bankruptcy academia jaywestbrook highered highereducation ideology fieldwork rentcontrol regulation consumerprotection democrats republicans finance cfpb banking marketshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6eacdda9e669/Noam Chomsky takes ten minutes to explain everything you need to know about the Republican Party in 2019 / Boing Boing2019-04-21T02:15:50+00:00
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/20/useful-idiots-r-us.html
robertogrecoWell, why did that happen? It happened because the Republicans face a difficult problem. They have a primary constituency, a real constituency: extreme wealth and corporate power. That’s who they have to serve. That’s their constituency. You can’t get votes that way, so you have to do something else to get votes. What do you do to get votes? This was begun by Richard Nixon with the Southern strategy: try to pick up racists in the South. The mid-1970s, Paul Weyrich, one of the Republican strategists, hit on a brilliant idea. Northern Catholics voted Democratic, tended to vote Democratic, a lot of them working-class. The Republicans could pick up that vote by pretending—crucially, “pretending”—to be opposed to abortion. By the same pretense, they could pick up the evangelical vote. Those are big votes—evangelicals, northern Catholics. Notice the word “pretense.” It’s crucial. You go back to the 1960s, every leading Republican figure was strongly, what we call now, pro-choice. The Republican Party position was—that’s Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, all the leadership—their position was: Abortion is not the government’s business; it’s private business—government has nothing to say about it. They turned almost on a dime in order to try to pick up a voting base on what are called cultural issues. Same with gun rights. Gun rights become a matter of holy writ because you can pick up part of the population that way. In fact, what they’ve done is put together a coalition of voters based on issues that are basically, you know, tolerable to the establishment, but they don’t like it. OK? And they’ve got to hold that, those two constituencies, together. The real constituency of wealth and corporate power, they’re taken care of by the actual legislation.
So, if you look at the legislation under Trump, it’s just lavish gifts to the wealth and the corporate sector—the tax bill, the deregulation, you know, every case in point. That’s kind of the job of Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, those guys. They serve the real constituency. Meanwhile, Trump has to maintain the voting constituency, with one outrageous position after another that appeals to some sector of the voting base. And he’s doing it very skillfully. As just as a political manipulation, it’s skillful. Work for the rich and the powerful, shaft everybody else, but get their votes—that’s not an easy trick. And he’s carrying it off."
[Full interview: https://truthout.org/video/chomsky-on-the-perils-of-depending-on-mueller-report-to-defeat-trump/
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/18/chomsky_by_focusing_on_russia_democrats
https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2019/4/18?autostart=true
"NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, Trump is—you know, I think there are a number of illusions about Trump. If you take a look at the Trump phenomenon, it’s not very surprising. Think back for the last 10 or 15 years over Republican Party primaries, and remember what happened during the primaries. Each primary, when some candidate rose from the base, they were so outlandish that the Republican establishment tried to crush them and succeeded in doing it—Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum. Anyone who was coming out of the base was totally unacceptable to the establishment. The change in 2016 is they couldn’t crush him.
But the interesting question is: Why was this happening? Why, in election after election, was the voting base producing a candidate utterly intolerable to the establishment? And the answer to that is—if you think about that, the answer is not very hard to discover. During the—since the 1970s, during this neoliberal period, both of the political parties have shifted to the right. The Democrats, by the 1970s, had pretty much abandoned the working class. I mean, the last gasp of more or less progressive Democratic Party legislative proposals was the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act in 1978, which Carter watered down so that it had no teeth, just became voluntary. But the Democrats had pretty much abandoned the working class. They became pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans. Meanwhile, the Republicans shifted so far to the right that they went completely off the spectrum. Two of the leading political analysts of the American Enterprise Institute, Thomas Mann, Norman Ornstein, about five or 10 years ago, described the Republican Party as what they called a “radical insurgency” that has abandoned parliamentary politics.
Well, why did that happen? It happened because the Republicans face a difficult problem. They have a primary constituency, a real constituency: extreme wealth and corporate power. That’s who they have to serve. That’s their constituency. You can’t get votes that way, so you have to do something else to get votes. What do you do to get votes? This was begun by Richard Nixon with the Southern strategy: try to pick up racists in the South. The mid-1970s, Paul Weyrich, one of the Republican strategists, hit on a brilliant idea. Northern Catholics voted Democratic, tended to vote Democratic, a lot of them working-class. The Republicans could pick up that vote by pretending—crucially, “pretending”—to be opposed to abortion. By the same pretense, they could pick up the evangelical vote. Those are big votes—evangelicals, northern Catholics. Notice the word “pretense.” It’s crucial. You go back to the 1960s, every leading Republican figure was strongly, what we call now, pro-choice. The Republican Party position was—that’s Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, all the leadership—their position was: Abortion is not the government’s business; it’s private business—government has nothing to say about it. They turned almost on a dime in order to try to pick up a voting base on what are called cultural issues. Same with gun rights. Gun rights become a matter of holy writ because you can pick up part of the population that way. In fact, what they’ve done is put together a coalition of voters based on issues that are basically, you know, tolerable to the establishment, but they don’t like it. OK? And they’ve got to hold that, those two constituencies, together. The real constituency of wealth and corporate power, they’re taken care of by the actual legislation.
So, if you look at the legislation under Trump, it’s just lavish gifts to the wealth and the corporate sector—the tax bill, the deregulation, you know, every case in point. That’s kind of the job of Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, those guys. They serve the real constituency. Meanwhile, Trump has to maintain the voting constituency, with one outrageous position after another that appeals to some sector of the voting base. And he’s doing it very skillfully. As just as a political manipulation, it’s skillful. Work for the rich and the powerful, shaft everybody else, but get their votes—that’s not an easy trick. And he’s carrying it off.
And, I should say, the Democrats are helping him. They are. Take the focus on Russiagate. What’s that all about? I mean, it was pretty obvious at the beginning that you’re not going to find anything very serious about Russian interference in elections. I mean, for one thing, it’s undetectable. I mean, in the 2016 election, the Senate and the House went the same way as the executive, but nobody claims there was Russian interference there. In fact, you know, Russian interference in the election, if it existed, was very slight, much less, say, than interference by, say, Israel. Israel, the prime minister, Netanyahu, goes to Congress and talks to a joint session of Congress, without even informing the White House, to attack Obama’s policies. I mean, that’s dramatic interference with elections. Whatever the Russians tried, it’s not going to be anything like that. And, in fact, there’s no interference in elections that begins to compare with campaign funding. Remember that campaign funding alone gives you a very high prediction of electoral outcome. It’s, again, Tom Ferguson’s major work which has shown this very persuasively. That’s massive interference in elections. Anything the Russians might have done is going to be, you know, peanuts in comparison. As far as Trump collusion with the Russians, that was never going to amount to anything more than minor corruption, maybe building a Trump hotel in Red Square or something like that, but nothing of any significance.
The Democrats invested everything in this issue. Well, turned out there was nothing much there. They gave Trump a huge gift. In fact, they may have handed him the next election. That’s just a—that’s a matter of being so unwilling to deal with fundamental issues, that they’re looking for something on the side that will somehow give political success. The real issues are different things. They’re things like climate change, like global warming, like the Nuclear Posture Review, deregulation. These are real issues. But the Democrats aren’t going after those. They’re looking for something else—the Democratic establishment. I’m not talking about the young cohort that’s coming in, which is quite different. Just all of that has to be shifted significantly, if there’s going to be a legitimate political opposition to the right-wing drift that’s taking place. And it can happen, can definitely happen, but it’s going to take work."]]]>amygoodman noamchomsky corydoctorow donaldtrump republicans us politics extremism billionaires inequality campaignfinance money power policy mitchmcconnell paulryan abortion nra guns evangelicals richardnixon ronaldreagan georgehwbush govenment corporatism corruption russiagate legislation wealth oligarchy plutocracy paulweyrich southernstrategy racism race gop guncontrol bigotry misogyny establishment michelebachman hermancain ricksantoram patriarchy whitesupremacy netanyahu barackobama congress climatechange canon democrats democracy insurgency radicalism right labor corporations catholics 2019 israel elections influencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:08aa59546647/Opinion | The Real Legacy of the 1970s - The New York Times2019-02-04T22:48:21+00:00
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https://hackeducation.com/2015/10/15/technoimperialism
robertogrecoIn theory and to a significant extent in practice, anyone from anywhere in California could, if they worked hard enough, get a bachelor’s degree from one of the best universities in the country (and, therefore, in the world), almost free of charge. The pronounced social and economic mobility of the postwar period would have been unthinkable without institutions of mass higher education, like this one, provided at public expense.
When Reagan took office as Governor of California in 1967, he made it clear: public expenses would be curbed, particularly in the university system. “There are certain intellectual luxuries that perhaps we could do without,” he told reporters. Taxpayers, he said, should not be “subsidizing intellectual curiosity.” The purpose of college, in other words, was not to offer what we’ve long construed as a liberal arts education; the purpose of higher education: to learn “job skills.”
The tech industry is just the latest to latch onto this argument. “Everyone should learn to code,” we now hear.
And as the state of California – and elsewhere – has withdrawn its financial commitment to free or subsidized public higher education, who has stepped in to meet the demands? The for-profit sector.
And the tech industry is latching onto this market as well."
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"Tim Draper’s (unconstitutional) plan to split up the state of California would have completely reshaped American politics. It failed, but I think it underscores the sort of transformative vision – “the Silicon Valley narrative,” the “Californian Ideology” – that the tech industry has. This vision is not simply about “the virtual world.”
We in education would be naive, I think, to think that the designs that venture capitalists and technology entrepreneurs have for us would be any less radical than creating a new state, like Draper’s proposed state of Silicon Valley, that would enormously wealthy and politically powerful.
When I hear talk of “unbundling” in education – one of the latest gerunds you’ll hear venture capitalists and ed-tech entrepreneurs invoke, meaning the disassembling of institutions into products and services – I can’t help but think of the “unbundling” that Draper wished to do to my state: carving up land and resources, shifting tax revenue and tax burdens, creating new markets, privatizing public institutions, redistributing power and doing so explicitly not in the service of equity or justice.
Echoes of imperialism. Imperialism’s latest form."]]>california californianideology capitalism commodification education technology neoliberalism 2015 audreywatters timdraper aaronbady mikekonczal ronaldreagan richardbarbrook andycameron libertarianism inequality infrastructure privatization unbundling markzuckerberg facebook evgenymorozov connectivity injustice losangeles internet web online netneutrality politics policy economics californiamasterplan masterplanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5cc59a1b1b63/