Posted on 07/06/2019 5:59:01 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps: Call them the woke and the resentful. Team Resentment is manned—pun very much intended—by people who are predominantly old and almost exclusively white. Team Woke is young, likely to be female, and predominantly black, brown, or Asian (though white “allies” do their dutiful part). These teams are roughly equal in number, and they disagree most vehemently, as well as most routinely, about the catchall known as political correctness.
Reality is nothing like this. As scholars Stephen Hawkins, Daniel Yudkin, Miriam Juan-Torres, and Tim Dixon argue in a report published Wednesday, “Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarized Landscape,” most Americans don’t fit into either of these camps. They also share more common ground than the daily fights on social media might suggest—including a general aversion to PC culture.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
The entire left is built on the LIE that labor is superior to PROPERTY and CAPITAL.
Property and capital (in the right hands) CREATE WEALTH. Labor, on the other hand, is COST, hence a drain on the wealth
-creation process. When costs are like labor must be minimized, wealth-creation becomes more efficient and closer to the ideal. Costs are parasitical. They drain an enterprise of its blood — which is profit.
The left, however, elevates labor (a cost) to the highest moral ground. From this, they have developed a worship of entitled, parasitic behavior.
Yes, capitalism needs to create jobs. But leftists act as if that’s the WHOLE POINT of capitalism. But, no. Capitalism is about profit. That’s why capitalists and (rightfully) always looking for ways to to reduce labor (and other costs) as close to ZERO as possible.
We’re reaching the point where automation and artificial intelligence will make labor almost obsolete. So, all the people who depend on jobs will have to, once and for all, fend for themselves and be free
It’s exciting.
SCHOLARS: Individuals who are unable to create or provide goods or services of value to others, who pontificate and expect to be paid for it, usually from public funds.
See also: ACADEMIC.
As Orwell described in his novel 1984, the reduction of the English language to “newspeak” was intended to make dissenting conversation impossible. Political correctness is doing much the same today by silencing dissent for fear of backlash by groups of the perpetually offended about something.
On a personal basis, most of the people I know don't care that much about politics except on a small number of issues that directly affect them personally, and even in those cases, they're "moderates" in the sense of having a mosaic of views: there are lots of people who are fiscally conservative but socially moderate or liberal, and there are lots of people who support a govt-funded social safety net while being social or religious conservatives.
So there's a lot going on that isn't captured by the choices on the ballot, and mostly consistent with the authors' observation that fewer than 1/10 of the population are Social Justice Warrior-types while only about 1/4 are committed across the board conservatives.
It's a term Social Justice Warriors use to congratulate themselves, i.e. everyone else is ignorant about the world, they and they alone are wide awake to what's going on and what needs to be done. Typical of self-deluded narcissists.
Insofar as they (establishment Republicans) advocate mass immigration from Mexico and other Third World countries, they are implicitly supporting the destruction of the American way of life. A United States with a Meso-American majority is no longer the United States.
Lots people are single-issue voters, and this is especially true of black voters. It doesn't matter how conservative they may be on social issues, as long as they get "racial justice" (i.e. handouts and affirmative action) they'll ignore the liberal candidates' stated position on other issues.
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