Didn’t know that- about the Native American vote. The category (race, sex etc.)take on the election results has been extreme. Apparently there is a whole class of pundits who think if you’re in a particular category you’re obliged to vote for a candidate who is in that category regardless of your opinions or analysis of your interests.If you don’t, you’re dumb or evil.It’s quite a take on things.It’s also hypocritical and inconsistent. A “ progressive “ white man running against a BIPOC woman is always to be preferred. Here we can actually employ the Marxist idea of false consciousness. Any BIPOC or woman who votes Right, is obviously a victim of false consciousness. Their opinions can be dismissed.This is very pernicious stuff. It lends its self to Leninist vanguardism. If the people are weighed down with false consciousness, then they must be lead and be ruled by those who aren’t.You can see this logic in the endless prattle about our democracy and how it must be saved via undemocratic means.True democracy isn’t about elections and majorities, it (ala Rousseau )should reflect the general will and that is embodied in an enlightened vanguard who expresses it through their control.The people who prattle about this stuff generally have little knowledge of these theories per se but there’s a trickle down effect. AOC would probably think Rousseau is the name of a French Wine( she did work at The Coffee Shop on Union Square) but the idea is planted right in her head.
RFK, Jr. had a lot of Native American support. Perhaps much of this support migrated to Trump after RFK joined Trump? As far as I am aware RFK is the only candidate who made a concerted effort to gain their support.
Loved the "path to the Dark Side" quote. While Star Wars isn't my main fandom, I've always been a huge fan of Harry Potter, and I'll liken it as a path to the Death Eaters. While many Potterheads may disagree and believe that the Death Eaters and Pure Blood Supremacy could be comparable to what they'd label as the far-right, I digress.
In Harry Potter lore, witches and wizards were actually the ones who were marginalized, thus the reason for them going into hiding permanently via the International Statute of Secrecy. And it was dark wizards like Salazar Slytherin, long before the statute was enacted, who wanted to bar Muggle Borns from attending Hogwarts based on his distrust of them.
Dark wizards following the statute, like Gellert Grindelwald and Tom Riddle (A.K.A. Lord Voldemort), each wanted to exert revenge on Muggles and bring about wizarding supremacy. The point? From Slytherin to Riddle, and the dark wizards in between who liked to label people, they were far more collectivist than the good guys in the series, who looked at people as individuals, and not part of a certain group or class.
That is a bitter pill to swallow for the Democrats ... !!!
Didn’t know that- about the Native American vote. The category (race, sex etc.)take on the election results has been extreme. Apparently there is a whole class of pundits who think if you’re in a particular category you’re obliged to vote for a candidate who is in that category regardless of your opinions or analysis of your interests.If you don’t, you’re dumb or evil.It’s quite a take on things.It’s also hypocritical and inconsistent. A “ progressive “ white man running against a BIPOC woman is always to be preferred. Here we can actually employ the Marxist idea of false consciousness. Any BIPOC or woman who votes Right, is obviously a victim of false consciousness. Their opinions can be dismissed.This is very pernicious stuff. It lends its self to Leninist vanguardism. If the people are weighed down with false consciousness, then they must be lead and be ruled by those who aren’t.You can see this logic in the endless prattle about our democracy and how it must be saved via undemocratic means.True democracy isn’t about elections and majorities, it (ala Rousseau )should reflect the general will and that is embodied in an enlightened vanguard who expresses it through their control.The people who prattle about this stuff generally have little knowledge of these theories per se but there’s a trickle down effect. AOC would probably think Rousseau is the name of a French Wine( she did work at The Coffee Shop on Union Square) but the idea is planted right in her head.
RFK, Jr. had a lot of Native American support. Perhaps much of this support migrated to Trump after RFK joined Trump? As far as I am aware RFK is the only candidate who made a concerted effort to gain their support.
https://largetribes.org/2024/03/presidential-candidate-robert-kennedy-jr-pays-visit-to-colt-media-share/
Loved the "path to the Dark Side" quote. While Star Wars isn't my main fandom, I've always been a huge fan of Harry Potter, and I'll liken it as a path to the Death Eaters. While many Potterheads may disagree and believe that the Death Eaters and Pure Blood Supremacy could be comparable to what they'd label as the far-right, I digress.
In Harry Potter lore, witches and wizards were actually the ones who were marginalized, thus the reason for them going into hiding permanently via the International Statute of Secrecy. And it was dark wizards like Salazar Slytherin, long before the statute was enacted, who wanted to bar Muggle Borns from attending Hogwarts based on his distrust of them.
Dark wizards following the statute, like Gellert Grindelwald and Tom Riddle (A.K.A. Lord Voldemort), each wanted to exert revenge on Muggles and bring about wizarding supremacy. The point? From Slytherin to Riddle, and the dark wizards in between who liked to label people, they were far more collectivist than the good guys in the series, who looked at people as individuals, and not part of a certain group or class.