07-09-2017, 11:08 PM
(07-09-2017, 04:46 PM)Dill Wrote: If I understand you, I think I agree.
One reason labor takes a back seat to identity issues is that the number of unionized workers has been greatly reduced over the last 40 years. That is not by accident.
But primarily, the US just doesn't have a developed leftist politics the way some other countries do. As a result, economic/class conflicts are easily transposed onto identity--blacks not getting opportunity, or whites losing opportunity because blacks and women get it, or Evangelicals being looked down on by Hollywood and educated experts. People take sides and create master narratives, and then news tidbits like the above OP are sutured into the narrative as one-more-example of what "they" are doing.
These narratives may not be wholly wrong, but they are usually very incomplete. They take root and guide people's perceptions and arouse motivations. I am not suggesting there is some alternative that doesn't involve master narratives, just that in the US the range of choices is narrower than in other countries.
What the hell are you talking about? The radical left has been destroying America since the ancient times. That's why Jesus condemned them then and Sean Hannity and Alex Jones continue our lord's work today. Talk about uninformed.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
