Posted on 07/15/2015 8:32:33 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If the last three weeks of presidential politics have proven anything, it's that Donald Trump is one of the nation's first "metamodern" politicians.
What this means is that Trump is neither sincere nor ironic, optimistic nor cynical, authentic nor false. Instead, Trump, like all metamodern persons and politicians, somehow manages to exist outside space, time, and controlling cultural conventions by earnestly believing in his personal metanarrative -- even as he remains conscious that no one else does. Both those voters on the Right who consider Trump a 100 percent earnest straight-talker, and those voters on the Left who believe him to be a 100 percent cynical, self-marketing buffoon are deceiving themselves and all those who listen to them. The same is true for those political pundits and journalists who are leaving their readers and viewers with no options beyond these two. Americans don't stand for having only two options for cereal brands when at the supermarket, they should hardly stand for having two or fewer options presented to them by their foremost political analysts. Trump's candidacy -- but much more importantly, America -- deserves better and more thoughtful media coverage of a presidential election.
Ardent partisans of any political stripe, whether journalists or politicians, belong to the era of postmodernism that has just ended. In the era of postmodernism, one determined one's moral position relative to society by signing onto one or another ready-made "deconstruction" of a presumptively "mainstream" narrative. For instance, despite supporting every imaginable Big Brother intrusion on personal liberties, radical conservatives fatuously styled themselves "anti-government" and hostile to a supposedly biased media apparatus (one largely dominated, in fact, by their own right-wing talk-radio and TV organs); meanwhile, equally radical Leftists overplayed their moral authority by portraying all manmade sociocultural structures in cartoonishly inaccurate terms....
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I wonder what he's going to be after the first debate?
I can neither confirm nor deny....;’)
From an earlier blog
- Julian Castro - No biz being a heartbeat away from the Prezy 7/15/2015, 8:24:18 AM · 16 of 17 Liz to Tennessee Nana; TADSLOS; stephenjohnbanker; Squantos; sickoflibs; AuntB; GOPJ; Jane Long; ... Separatist Castro has written fondly of the early days of the Latino Bund---and basked in the separatist slogans of the day. "Get on the US gravy train!" ‘Viva La Raza!’ ‘Black and Brown United!’ ‘Accept me for who I am: a Chicano w/ multiple identities" ================================================= ==================================================== Castro warned Republicans about holding up "comprehensive immigration reform".....but inaction on amnesty will not deter the Latino Bund and the ambitious Castro family's violent, separatist plans for America. The Castro twins and mamasita Rosita. Julian Castro is Obama's hand-picked appointee to head HUD---an agency infamous for corruption and govt fraud, HUD is now known as The La Raza Bank--withdrawls only. BEWARE THE CASTROS (1) US Cong Joaquin Castro, (2) his identical twin brother, ex-Mayor Julian Castro--heads HUD), and, (3) their mother---Maria “Rosie” Castro--a hardline Latino Bund member and La Raza separatist. God only knows the tax dollars these three have confiscated for the blood-thirsty La Raza Bund. BACKSTORY Castro---2012 Democrat convention keynoter---genially introduced the mother, Maria “Rosie” Castro to the convention-goers. Mamasita Castro is a radical ethnocentric, anti-assimilationist....a key figure in the activities of the blood-thirsty, tax-funded “La Raza Bund." ==================================================== AMERICANS ARE ALREADY FUNDING MAMASITA CASTRO'S HATE-FILLED ORGANIZATION: In 2005 alone, $7.9 million in taxpayer funding was given to La Raza Bund charter schools in the form of US Dept of Education grants. LA RAZA BUND schools stress Latino culture, the Spanish language, the re-conquest of the American Southwest, the establishment of the mythical Atzlan on US soil, and even Aztec math. In addition to using taxpayer funds to enforce the teaching of murder and violence in US public schools, the federally-funded La Raza Bund operates 100 charter schools across America. THE LA RAZA BUND TEACHES HATE-AMERICA WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS The La Raza Bund does not even try to sugar-coat its anti-America agenda and its bloodthirsty plans to kill off Americans: La Raza Bund Studies textbook “Occupied America,” by Rodolfo Acuña, includes a violent and blood-curdling speech given by university professor Jose Angel Gutierrez: “We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is, if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him,” (pg. 323). The following is taken directly from La Raza's Occupied America: “.......execute all white males over age 16,” (p 167--AKA the Plan of San Diego). =============================================== La Raza also got Democrat Congressional earmarks and tax dollars for "mortgage counseling." The super-secret Congressional Hispanic Caucus calculatedly launched a housing initiative called "HOGAR"-- Spanish for home. Conspiracy and collusion were the watchwords....... race-based "La Raza" was given tax dollars and Congressionsl earmarks to finance its so-called mortgage activities. La Raza's "strategic partnerships” with Wachovia and Bank of America forced the falsifications of mortgage-application and the dumbing down of mtge requirements and documentation standards.......which caused taxpayers to be socked w/ billions in bailouts as the US economy tanked. La Raza aided and abetted risky federal and private-home loans to latinos over the last decade. thanks to the lending industry’s version of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” In addition to millions of federal tax dollars, La Raza also collected a $1 million Democratic earmark that funded “community-development” projects. Analysts report that much of it went to "mortgage counseling." (waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
Well, new speak was bound to find its way to acedemia sooner or later.
A- A Shoo-in
B- Inevitable
Obama was unelectable after the rev. Wright tapes went public so I guess that means little.
Let us not forget: OBAMA is wrong about everything, yet was permitted to seize power.
I doubt this acaDUMBic clown had anything similar to say about the candidacy of Obama, an affirmative action mental lightweight of absolutely zero accomplishment, no private sector experience, no executive experience, limited and extremely undistinguished government experience ... an incompetent, pathological liar, whose arrogance is only exceeded by his ignorance ... and who has proven to be a lawless disgrace and the worst POTUS, hands down, in the history of the U.S. of A.
They’ll be spewing their garbage right up until he’s elected.
I expect his support will continue to grow. I am intrigued by this meeting with Cruz today. I’ll bet that has some liberal and GOPe butts puckered.
The MSM and the communist liberal democrats also used all of this same demagoguery against Ronald Reagan. The people didn’t buy it and the country had for the first time in years a true American patriot in the WH.
4,466 words of pseudo-intellectual nonsense.
Wow, I missed my psychobabble translation class so I don’t have a clue what this idiot is babbling about.
Trump has said more truth in the past few weeks than has come out of Washington in decades. I don’t know if the Trumpster will be there in Nov. of 2016, but he has a lot of alienated voters salivating to vote for him!
Seth Abramson is clearly a radical leftist. He can’t fathom conservatism and calls Fox News “extreme right wing.” He thinks the media is dominated by the right. Thus, he’s loonier and more extreme than Bernie Sanders. One should never give any consideration to Seth’s tortured rationalizations.
The title is stupid. I wouldn't say that anyone with his own 9 billion dollars to spend is unelectable. And Trump has been around the media for years. He knows how to play them and get his name in lights.
I'm not saying he WILL be elected, but I think he certainly can be elected.
If Trump were so beatable in the general election, the Left would be trumpeting his candidacy from the highest rooftops.
Reading this drivel makes my head ache.
Much like reading the ramblings of an “art critic” - a lot of words that don’t say anything.
Some schmuck at Huff Po writing about being wrong on everything.....
Pfft... these leftist live in some bizarre fantasy.
What I read. Blah, blah blah. Blah blah blah blah.
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