He turned a generation against Hillary & dissed both Warren and Harris when they ran. Now he’s accused Kamala of losing because she was backed by billionaires. BS has issues. Time to call him out!
Great explanation of the dichotomy between how men and women think. Some exceptions though
The Democrats have no concept of what is working class, and project upon the poor their own ideals. This is especially true with progressives caught up in Marxist think.
Kamala was not working class. Both of her parents were professors at major universities; the closest contact she would have was with a custodian. (The $19/hour people whom the Columbia University progressives attacked in the administration building.)
Agree with you totally about the “progressive” Dems. You’re also right that Kamala was not brought up in a working-class household—but she never claimed she was. Bernie wasn’t either—like my own parents, his was an Immigrant Jewish family who lived in Flatbush, and his mother never held an outside-the-home-job. You can call it “working-class” if you like, but I’d describe it as lower middle-class economically and middle-class culturally. But I actually don’t think these terms are very useful as general descriptors.
I agree with everything you said. With regard to terms as general descriptors: my family was lower-class economically, but lower-middle socioeconomically. I was raised in a school district that had both a poor white neighborhood and a ghetto that fed into it. The distinction needs to be recognized: Lower-class economically means that the family is not earning enough to afford many items besides necessities, while lower-middle socioeconomically suggests lower economic status, with middle class values, especially education. (Every extra penny went to our education.) Lower socioeconomic status indicates both lower income and no buy-in to middle-class values. Many of my classmates went to work immediately after school; many also gave birth to children starting in high school, so we experienced attrition due to motherhood.
Trump won because Biden was elected as a moderate and then promptly filled his administration with out of touch progressive culture warriors. Harris inherited the Biden administration’s ultra-left policies and positions on not securing the border, unchecked immigration, Trans everything, inflationary deficit spending, racist DEI initiatives and acquiescing to the antisemitic discrimination and violence of the Free Palestine cult.
Biden lost the elections for Harris, and she did herself no favors by adopting progressive kook ideas in the five years preceding the elections. “Billionaires” had zero to do with her losing. Being entangled with loathsome progressive politics did.
I really don't like this kind of feminist who pretends that there's no difference between feminism and equalism. Feminists take every negative description of, reaction to, or treatment of a woman as "misogyny." Bernie Sanders ran against Hillary Clinton for the democratic nomination. Of course, he'll say critical things. We all remember the bias against him by the party establishment and the debate authorities during their primary fight. (Were the shenanigans against him the product of misandry? Antisemitism? Or just plain politics?)
She talks about "choice" only in connection with women's rights. So, when a woman says "I know a child was conceived, but I'm not ready to handle the responsibilities of parenthood," she wants "choice." But when a man says, "I know a child was conceived, but I'm not ready to handle the responsibilities of parenthood," the feminist response replicates the pro-life, anti-choice position of "If you don't want to have a child, don't have sex. When you have sex, you have to take the consequences or we'll throw you in jail." (Some very prominent feminists have admitted to me that this is a sexist double standard.)
There is a big difference between equal rights for women and equal rights for people.
Great explanation of the dichotomy between how men and women think. Some exceptions though
The Democrats have no concept of what is working class, and project upon the poor their own ideals. This is especially true with progressives caught up in Marxist think.
Kamala was not working class. Both of her parents were professors at major universities; the closest contact she would have was with a custodian. (The $19/hour people whom the Columbia University progressives attacked in the administration building.)
Agree with you totally about the “progressive” Dems. You’re also right that Kamala was not brought up in a working-class household—but she never claimed she was. Bernie wasn’t either—like my own parents, his was an Immigrant Jewish family who lived in Flatbush, and his mother never held an outside-the-home-job. You can call it “working-class” if you like, but I’d describe it as lower middle-class economically and middle-class culturally. But I actually don’t think these terms are very useful as general descriptors.
I agree with everything you said. With regard to terms as general descriptors: my family was lower-class economically, but lower-middle socioeconomically. I was raised in a school district that had both a poor white neighborhood and a ghetto that fed into it. The distinction needs to be recognized: Lower-class economically means that the family is not earning enough to afford many items besides necessities, while lower-middle socioeconomically suggests lower economic status, with middle class values, especially education. (Every extra penny went to our education.) Lower socioeconomic status indicates both lower income and no buy-in to middle-class values. Many of my classmates went to work immediately after school; many also gave birth to children starting in high school, so we experienced attrition due to motherhood.
Great articles, again. Thank you all so very much.
Respectfully
John Kornman
Trump won because Biden was elected as a moderate and then promptly filled his administration with out of touch progressive culture warriors. Harris inherited the Biden administration’s ultra-left policies and positions on not securing the border, unchecked immigration, Trans everything, inflationary deficit spending, racist DEI initiatives and acquiescing to the antisemitic discrimination and violence of the Free Palestine cult.
Biden lost the elections for Harris, and she did herself no favors by adopting progressive kook ideas in the five years preceding the elections. “Billionaires” had zero to do with her losing. Being entangled with loathsome progressive politics did.
I really don't like this kind of feminist who pretends that there's no difference between feminism and equalism. Feminists take every negative description of, reaction to, or treatment of a woman as "misogyny." Bernie Sanders ran against Hillary Clinton for the democratic nomination. Of course, he'll say critical things. We all remember the bias against him by the party establishment and the debate authorities during their primary fight. (Were the shenanigans against him the product of misandry? Antisemitism? Or just plain politics?)
She talks about "choice" only in connection with women's rights. So, when a woman says "I know a child was conceived, but I'm not ready to handle the responsibilities of parenthood," she wants "choice." But when a man says, "I know a child was conceived, but I'm not ready to handle the responsibilities of parenthood," the feminist response replicates the pro-life, anti-choice position of "If you don't want to have a child, don't have sex. When you have sex, you have to take the consequences or we'll throw you in jail." (Some very prominent feminists have admitted to me that this is a sexist double standard.)
There is a big difference between equal rights for women and equal rights for people.