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Far-right Bolsonaro wins Brazil presidential race
Far-right Bolsonaro wins Brazil presidential race
It also looks to me like The Democrat party is self destructing, but it is hard to know how Democrat voters see it. I think it will take a few more election cycles to see what is going to happen.
However, I think the deep state / shadow government (the people behind the elected officials) are using the Democratic party as a disposable tool. They want to regain the power they lost when a non-establishment candidate won in 2016 and they have nothing to lose. If they don't get power back the Democrat party is useless to them anyway. So they are using in a last ditch effort, trying to get back power, and they don't care if they destroy it in the process.
Another theory is that there is very low participation rate in the primaries and only the most extreme leftists Democrats vote in them. The means the candidates are forced, over the years, to adopt more and more extreme positions in order to win the party nomination. The result of all those years of selecting for more and more extremist candidates has led to the current situation where they are alienating the moderates and seeming to commit political suicide.
And Trump has to some extent stolen the middle ground which is also forcing the Democrats further left to distinguish themselves from the Republicans.
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"Heterodox Academy was founded in September 2015 to call attention to this trend [lack of conservatives in academia] and the problems it is causing for scholarship, particularly in the social sciences and related fields (such as law and public policy)."
https://heterodoxacademy.org/problems/
American universities have leaned left for a long time. That is not a serious problem; as long as there are some people with a different political perspective in every field and every department, we can assume that eventually, someone will challenge claims that reflect ideology more than evidence.
But things began changing in the 1990s as the Greatest Generation (which had a fair number of Republicans) retired and were replaced by the Baby Boom generation (which did not). As the graph below shows, in the 15 years between 1995 and 2010 the academy went from leaning left to being almost entirely on the left. (The 12% in the red line for 2014 is mostly made up of professors in schools of engineering and other professional schools; the percent conservative for the major humanities and social science departments is closer to 5%. For more data on these trends and the rising imbalance, seeGross & Simmons, 2007;Inbar & Lammers, 2012; see latest study,Langbert et al. 2016, here; see many older links here).
Data from Higher Education Research Institute, based on a survey of college faculty conducted every other year since 1989. Plotted by Sam Abrams.
Heterodox Academy was founded in September 2015 to call attention to this trend and the problems it is causing for scholarship, particularly in the social sciences and related fields (such as law and public policy). The word heterodoxmeans “not conforming with accepted or orthodox standards of beliefs.” We chose that word to contrast with “orthodoxy,” which refers to conforming with accepted norms and beliefs. Orthodoxy has religious connotations, but it can be applied to any view that becomes dogma or dogmatic, such as “orthodox Marxism,” “social constructionist orthodoxy,” or “free market orthodoxy.”
Jonathan Haidt: Universities Are Digging Their Own Graves
In his book The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics, Mark Lilla, professor of humanities at Columbia University, a liberal, explains how progressive students have been intellectually damaged by identity politics:
(Excerpt by Ed Driscoll)
https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2017/09/15/lilla-after-identity-politics-review/)
As a teacher, I am increasingly struck by a difference between my conservative and progressive students. Contrary to the stereotype, the conservatives are far more likely to connect their engagements to a set of political ideas and principles. Young people on the left are much more inclined to say that they are engaged in politics as an X, concerned about other Xs and those issues touching on X-ness. And they are less and less comfortable with debate.
Over the past decade a new, and very revealing, locution has drifted from our universities into the media mainstream: Speaking as an X…This is not an anodyne phrase. It sets up a wall against any questions that come from a non-X perspective. Classroom conversations that once might have begun, I think A, and here is my argument, now take the form, Speaking as an X, I am offended that you claim B. What replaces argument, then, are taboos against unfamiliar ideas and contrary opinions.
Adam MacLeod wrote in Undoing the Dis-Education of Millennials
http://newbostonpost.com/2017/11/09/undoing-the-dis-education-of-millennials/
I teach in a law school. For several years now my students have been mostly Millennials. Contrary to stereotype, I have found that the vast majority of them want to learn. But true to stereotype, I increasingly find that most of them cannot think, don’t know very much, and are enslaved to their appetites and feelings. Their minds are held hostage in a prison fashioned by elite culture and their undergraduate professors.
According to Camilla Turner writing in telegraph.co.uk:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ive-taught-schools-fuels-anxiety-young-women/
"Dr Joanna Williams, a lecturer in higher education at Kent University ...
... said that if girls are instilled with a mindset of victimhood at a young age, it can set them back later in life. “When women go out into the world of work and experience obstacles, rather than persevering they think ‘oh these are the insurmountable barriers I was told about'."
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Dr Williams said that the narrative continues at university where students are told that there is a "rape culture" or some kind of "epidemic" of sexual assault on campus.
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“It is very difficult for women to present themselves as powerful, strong and capable if they think they need to be wary and anxious," she said.
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Camille Paglia: “It’s really started at the level of public school education. I’ve been teaching now for 46 years as a classroom teacher, and I have felt the slow devolution of the quality of public school education in the classroom.”
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“What has happened is these young people now getting to college have no sense of history – of any kind! No sense of history. No world geography. No sense of the violence and the barbarities of history. So, they think that the whole world has always been like this, a kind of nice, comfortable world where you can go to the store and get orange juice and milk, and you can turn on the water and the hot water comes out. They have no sense whatever of the destruction, of the great civilizations that rose and fell, and so on – and how arrogant people get when they’re in a comfortable civilization. They now have been taught to look around them to see defects in America – which is the freest country in the history of the world – and to feel that somehow America is the source of all evil in the universe, and it’s because they’ve never been exposed to the actual evil of the history of humanity. They know nothing!”
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Camille Paglia: My generation of the 1960's, when I arrived in college in 1964 there were parietal rules in place so that the women in my dorm had to sign in at 11:00 at night. The men could run free. It was my generation that rose up and said that we wanted to be treated equally and we want freedom. And the colleges said the world is a dangerous place. You could be attacked you could be raped. We said, "Give us the freedom to risk rape. Freedom is much more important than protection and safety. And that's what young people have given up today.
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Christina Hoff Sommers: And right now the fashion is the identity politics, intersectionality, this is all the rage, and its the premise of this theory it's the idea that all the oppressions intersect with one another and form this matrix of oppression. And so young people in a typical gender studies class now learn that they inhabit a society that is this matrix of oppression and depending on your identity you might be advantaged so you have unearned privilege or you might be burdened because of your race or maybe your disability or your gender or preference and on and on. But underneath it all is this assumption that the United States is a white supremacist imperialist capitalist patriarchal oppressive society. And in order to liberate ourselves we have to, I don't even know what they want to do - because it's all - maybe blame one another and form - have little feuds, on social media and on campus.
I was watching Trump's rally and I was wondering how he developed his speaking style. He doesn't speak like most politicians. When you listen to the local pols that speak at the rallies they often use a style many politicians use where they are obviously trying to get the crowd excited. Trump's style is a more subtle. Then I remembered I had heard that Trump's family attended the church where Norman Vincent Peale was a minister. I am wondering if Trump is influenced by Peale's speaking style. (I'm not referring to the prose style, but to aspects of the delivrey: pitch, tone of voice, dynamics, and tempo.)
Here is a recording of Peale
Do you know anything about this guy - is he 'far right' in the sense of being pro-Trump, or is he 'far right' in the sense of being a sinister individual?Not meaningful statistically but this thread is for Democrats who are voting for Republicans in the midterms.
https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1056667810691190784
Do you know anything about this guy - is he 'far right' in the sense of being pro-Trump, or is he 'far right' in the sense of being a sinister individual?
David
Do you know anything about this guy - is he 'far right' in the sense of being pro-Trump, or is he 'far right' in the sense of being a sinister individual?
David
http://news.trust.org/item/20181028230046-ovczz
Far-right Bolsonaro wins Brazil presidential race
Bill Mitchell is your standard pro-Israel NeoCon Republican Retard.Do you know anything about this guy - is he 'far right' in the sense of being pro-Trump, or is he 'far right' in the sense of being a sinister individual?
In Texas most Latinos support Trump because they oppose Illegal Immigration. They know the deleterious effects Immigration has on society. see: https://imgur.com/a/B0zF7P8In 2016, an astounding 29 percent of Latinos voted for Trump.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1055634399050563584.html?refreshed=yes
July 7, 2018: New York Times editorial calls for Dems to “take a page from The Godfather” to “go to the mattresses” to stop Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
July 6, 2018: CNN analyst justifies violence against Trump supporters
July 6, 2018: Long Island Man Threatened to Kill Supporters of Republican Congressman, Trump: Police
July 6, 2018: Florida man attacked over Trump flag in yard.
July 6, 2018: Woman threatens to stab Alan Dershowitz in heart.
July 5, 2018: Founder of #WalkAway campaign refused service at camera store.
July 5, 2018: Trump supporter wearing Make America Great Again hat allegedly assaulted in burger joint (video at link).
July 3, 2018: Nebraska GOP office vandalized.
July 3, 2018: EPA head Scott Pruitt harassed at restaurant.
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1) October 21, 2018: Obama’s former deputy secretary of state, Philippe Reines says harassment of McConnell and his wife “is fine”
2) October 20, 2018: Angry Leftists Harass McConnell, Wife at Restaurant: ‘Why Don’t You Get Out of Here?’
3) October 19, 2018: New York Man Charged With Threatening Two Senators Over Kavanaugh Support
4) October 18, 2018: Dem operative for Soros-funded group arrested for ‘battery’ against Nevada GOP candidate’s campaign manager
5) October 17, 2018: TN Restaurant owner’s life threatened for renting space to GOP’s Marsha Blackburn
6) October 17, 2018: Portland Antifa tells 9/11 NYPD widow “YOUR HUSBAND SHOULD FUC*ING ROT IN THE GRAVE”
7) October 17, 2018: Professor calls for harassing Republicans at restaurants, sticking ‘fingers in their salads’
8) October 16, 2018: Person claimed ricin was in letter sent to Senator Collins home
9) October 16, 2018: Left-wing comedian gets physical with Trump supporter at Hooters
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562) March 12, 2016: Man tries to tackle Trump at campaign rally.
563) March 11, 2016: Chicago Trump Rally Cancelled, Police Officer Attacked by Anti-Trump Protesters, Ambulance blocked
564) March 9, 2016: Trump billboard removed due to repeated vandalism in West Town IL.
566) March 8, 2016: 3 arrested for pulling gun on Trump supporter
567) March 1, 2016: Former Daily Show contributor Larry Wilmore “jokes” about killing Trump.
568) February 29, 2016: FL: Trump Volunteers Brutally Assaulted & Body Slammed While Campaigning
569) February 24, 2016: NYT columnist Ross Douthat “jokes” about assassination attempt on Trump
570) January 26, 2016: Protesters Threw Tomatoes at Donald Trump at a Rally in Iowa
571) January 9, 2016: Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters in Mass. vandalized
572) November 19, 2015: ‘Black Lives Matter’ Activist Calls for Donald Trump’s Assassination
573) September 1, 2015: Texas teen says Donald Trump is the reason he was attacked at bus stop
Apparently Bolsonaro is a climate sceptic!If you were wondering about this post I don't really know. I assume anyone who is a conservative is called Hitler/Nazi by the media so if they say far-right I assume he is a centrist or conservative. But I don't really know anything about him. But it is interesting because there seems to be an international trend Brexit, Trump, Bolsonaro, and others.
This year is the first year I feel a sense that the outcome of the midterm election directly affects my wellbeing so I am voting in the midterms out of a sense of self interest rather than civic duty or team spirit. My sense of urgency is higher than it was in 2016. .
I think the whole left-right axis has somehow rotated - politics has changed but the names of the parties remained the same.Yeah, me too.
In fact, with one exception where a girl kind of coaxed me into voting since I was with her when she went, I've never even voted. But in this case I cannot not vote. And I'll vote right-wing across the board, most likely.
(And for those that don't know, I called myself a "radical leftist" for a good decade and a half . . . but now, though I would've never guessed a few years back, all the breathing room, tolerance, support of free speech, freshness, and sanity is on the (new) right . . . imo.)
We are not going to reward companies that constantly raise prices, which in the past has been most companies. Frankly Alex, [Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar] used to run one of them so nobody knows the system better than Alex. That's what we needed. Our, and a very successful one, our plan will end the dishonest double-dealing that allows the middleman to pocket rebates and discounts that should be passed on to consumers and patients. Our plan bans the pharmacist gag rule which punishes pharmacists for telling patients how to save money. This is a total ripoff and we are ending it. We are getting tough on the drug makers that exploit our patent laws to choke out competition. Our patent system will reward innovation but it will not be used as a shield to protect unfair monopolies.
We will also demand fairness overseas when foreign governments extort unreasonably low prices from U.S. drug makers. Americans have to pay more to subsidize the enormous cost of research and development. In some cases medicine that costs a few dollars in a foreign country costs hundreds of dollars in America for the same pill with the same ingredients in the same package made in the same plant and that is unacceptable. You can look at some of the countries, their medicine is a tiny fraction what the medicine costs in the USA. It's unfair and it's ridiculous and it's not going to happen any longer. It's time to end the global freeloading once and for all.
Yeah, I happen to be registered because I just had to renew my license last week.I think the whole left-right axis has somehow rotated - politics has changed but the names of the parties remained the same.
If this is your first time voting for a long time, do check that you are properly registered to vote - I don't know the details because I am not American.
David