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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoDavid Roediger on the Sinking “Middle Class” - YouTube2021-07-12T03:32:01+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-wAzluojyU
robertogrecodavidroediger history us class marxism race politics policy identity workingclass academia highered highereducation workers capitalism billclinton education organizing democrats middleclass 2021 reagandemocrats stanleygreenberg racism unions republicans whitesupremacy whiteness ronaldreagan rainbowcoalition 1992 1960s jimmycarter georgemcgovern corporatism 1980s dlc polling institutionalracism sistersouljah jessejackson barackobama poverty poor hillaryclinton donaldtrump labor elections electoralpolitics lyndonjohnson sociology waronpoverty economics healthcare statebenefits universalhealthcare immigration universality berniesanders elizabethwarren joebiden health mentalhealth professionalmangerialclass work karlmarx donaldrump trumpism entrepreneurism whitecollar organizedlabor precarity debt anxiety neoliberalism individualism pain misery psychology society resistance centrism democracy voting labormovements nurses nursing teaching teachers teacherunions masculinity feminism gender lbjhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a0144db93d84/America Without Family, God, or Patriotism - The Atlantic2019-09-06T17:10:59+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/america-without-family-god-or-patriotism/597382/
robertogrecoderekthompson us culture society economics generations change religion patriotism families 2019 suicide middleage purpose meaning community anxiety malaise collapse vulnerability traditions marriage parenting millennials geny genx generationy generationx generationz gender work labor unemployment hope hopelessness activism skepticism power elitism democrats republicans politics education highered highereducation ronaldreagan reaganism belief diversity voting unions siliconvalley socialjustice justice impotency underemployment spirituality capitalism neoliberalism genz learning zoomershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:486435b91f0d/Offering a more progressive definition of freedom2018-09-10T22:05:47+00:00
https://kottke.org/18/08/offering-a-more-progressive-definition-of-freedom
robertogrecoYou’ll hear me talk all the time about freedom. Because I think there is a failure on our side if we allow conservatives to monopolize the idea of freedom — especially now that they’ve produced an authoritarian president. But what actually gives people freedom in their lives? The most profound freedoms of my everyday existence have been safeguarded by progressive policies, mostly. The freedom to marry who I choose, for one, but also the freedom that comes with paved roads and stop lights. Freedom from some obscure regulation is so much more abstract. But that’s the freedom that conservatism has now come down to.
Or think about the idea of family, in the context of everyday life. It’s one thing to talk about family values as a theme, or a wedge — but what’s it actually like to have a family? Your family does better if you get a fair wage, if there’s good public education, if there’s good health care when you need it. These things intuitively make sense, but we’re out of practice talking about them.
I also think we need to talk about a different kind of patriotism: a fidelity to American greatness in its truest sense. You think about this as a local official, of course, but a truly great country is made of great communities. What makes a country great isn’t chauvinism. It’s the kinds of lives you enable people to lead. I think about wastewater management as freedom. If a resident of our city doesn’t have to give it a second thought, she’s freer.
Clean drinking water is freedom. Good public education is freedom. Universal healthcare is freedom. Fair wages are freedom. Policing by consent is freedom. Gun control is freedom. Fighting climate change is freedom. A non-punitive criminal justice system is freedom. Affirmative action is freedom. Decriminalizing poverty is freedom. Easy & secure voting is freedom. This is an idea of freedom I can get behind."]]>petebuttigieg freedom democracy 2018 jasonkottke everyday life living progressive progress progressivism education water healthcare universalhealthcare health climatechange politics policy poverty inequality decriminalization voting affirmitiveaction guncontrol liberation work labor salaries wages economics socialism policing police lawenforcement consent patriotism wealth familyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:652890c69b94/