fabulazerstokill: DRAG THEM BY THEIR AHISTORICAL POWDERED WIGS Good point.
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Familiar Tactics
In Mary Hershberger’s essay on the involvement of women in the opposition to the Indian Removal Act, I found this description of his political strategies: “Andrew Jackson, who viewed politics primarily in terms of mobilizing a narrow electorate around its economic self-interest, charged that removal opponents objected to removal only because it threatened their access to federal …
Shutting It Down
Now that the House GOP/the tea party actually did force a US government shutdown, Ezra Klein breaks it down again why this actually happened. There is a longer informative news report on NYTimes.com as well as a handy graphic sketching what parts of the government will be sent into furlough and who has to continue …
christopherstreet: I thought descent meant…………oh never mind.. #TeaBaggers That explains so much.
Currently, we are witnessing a resurgence of white supremacist thinking among disenfranchised classes of white people. These extremist groups respond to misinformation circulated by privileged whites that suggests that black people are getting ahead financially because of government policies like affirmative action, and they are taught to blame black folks for their plight. bell hooks. Where …
Furthermore: the republican ideal fragmented into liberal and conservative, if not radical and reactionary versions, while the rhetoric of government by consent remained substantially fixed. – William Hedges. “The Myth of the Republic and the Theory of American Literature.” 109. Reading this sentence I had to think of the state of public discourse in the …
imvotingteaparty.com Gettit? Wonderful. (via merelythinking)
More disturbingly, this is what happens when you treat the arrest of a black man, in his home, as something that can be fixed over beers. This is what happens when you silently ascent to the notion that racism and its victims are somehow equally wrong. The ground, itself, is rigged with a narrative of …
CLARITY AND CHAOS 