Great read.
Odd how she can sound like a conservative sane person yet support the bern.
A discussion regarding the unlikely Presidency of Donald Trump that does not contain the word WALL is missing the point.
How far we’ve come from the conservatism of our fathers & mothers when Paglia exhibits more common sense - and speaks it more forcefully - than most of our Republican leadership.
She accepts incorrect premises but is intellectually honest in her subsequent analyses. She is in that very, very tiny camp of honest leftists - George Orwell, Alan Dershowitz, and herself. I am sure there are others, but I can’t think of them. Perhaps Tulsi Gabbard. Still watching her.
I’ve never understood how someone so brilliant can belong to today’s Democratic party.
I disagree. She makes some interesting points, but a lot of it is lost in the confusion of her rhetoric. It reads like someone who just read the dictionary and wants to show how sophisticated they are by using high-brow words and phrases when simple wording would be both sufficient and understandable.
Reminds me of when Sonny Bono was in Congress and he complained that most of the bills were written in legalese English, instead of something the average American could understand.
She comes across as a nut who hasn't found a way to square her nuttiness with reality.
“I am a registered Democrat who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary and for Jill Stein in the general election. Since last Fall, I’ve had my eye on Kamala Harris, the new senator from California, and I hope to vote for her in the next presidential primary.”
I couldn’t move my mental furniture around enough to let myself get THAT razzle-dazzled by anyone, let alone by THOSE guys!
She sure is a rare bird... but that doesn’t mean she should be SHOT! :)
And she wants to see Kamala Harris get elected president? How can someone so articulate and intelligent not see Harris as a female Obama who sees the world through the racial prism of everyone a victim or oppressor and who would try to swing the country hard left with the attitude that everyone against her is the enemy that needs to be defeated?
Yes, it’s hard to explain, but I think I know her. She’s brilliant and honest, but at her base, leftism is her religion.
And yet, this is an excellent article to send around to feminist friends...yes, I have some.
This woman is conflicted as hell, bashing liberals while voting for liberals.
I’ve known some bipolar nuts like her in my professional life, sweet talks but terrible actions. They usually are quickly rooted out in the private sector (bad results cannot be concealed long) but if in the public sector, they can inflict huge damage to persons and properties.
Hell, leftists are definitively irredeemable.
Another home run.
She has a level of wisdom, understanding and vision far greater than most others who pass for intellectuals these days.
She is almost always dead right on her observations (see “Camille Paglia: Hillary Clinton is a completely hollow woman”)
Then she turns a 180 and supports exactly the kinds of politicians she rails against.
Camille knows the leftist political parties no longer represent the values she espouses (if they ever did) but she doesn’t seem to be able to get past the idea that the natural home for progressives and intellectuals is still on the left.
A very logical women.
“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.” - Robert A Heinlein
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Paglia, brilliantly: My position continues to be that Hillary, with her supercilious, Marie Antoinette-style entitlement, was a disastrously wrong candidate for 2016 and that she secured the nomination only through overt chicanery by the Democratic National Committee, assisted by a corrupt national media who, for over a year, imposed a virtual blackout on potential primary rivals. Bernie Sanders had the populist passion, economic message, government record, and personal warmth to counter Trump. It was Sanders, for example, who addressed the crisis of crippling student debt, an issue that other candidates (including Hillary) then took up.
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I've been wondering about that for years. There are times I think it's just an act to shield her from being lynched by radical Left students, and she's really libertarian-conservative.