Re:How Trolls Overran the Public Square
by Avicebron on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @01:56AM
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Sometimes "drinks in a bar" level conversation can be the most rewarding. Let me know if you want to get a drink and talk about it.
I'll cede that both poles have responsibility and that the conservative right have unified themselves mostly on a shared set of identities with little room for consensus, this is a problem.
But I think we need to remove ourselves from totally binary thinking (he says as a he programs all the time) and separate some concepts like neo liberal financial models from liberal social principles as I bet we would agree on the social and disagree on the financial. I'm assuming a lot so please correct me where I'm wrong. Reactionary populism is very often correlated to what are perceived to be unfair economic policy (see "reparation" payments of post world war 1 germany to france...ended tragically in 1945).
Dismissing the "conservatives" as on unified entity despite their strong coalition of identity misrepresents the problem as I see it.
I'll cede that both poles have responsibility and that the conservative right have unified themselves mostly on a shared set of identities with little room for consensus, this is a problem.
But I think we need to remove ourselves from totally binary thinking (he says as a he programs all the time) and separate some concepts like neo liberal financial models from liberal social principles as I bet we would agree on the social and disagree on the financial. I'm assuming a lot so please correct me where I'm wrong. Reactionary populism is very often correlated to what are perceived to be unfair economic policy (see "reparation" payments of post world war 1 germany to france...ended tragically in 1945).
Dismissing the "conservatives" as on unified entity despite their strong coalition of identity misrepresents the problem as I see it.