Beyond Woke

[TheOneX]

MAGA isn’t Republican, it’s just the only opposition that can fight back. Establishment Republicans are almost as bad as Dems, and NeoCons are worse. If Tulsi is MAGA then I say, “Welcome aboard!”

She is MAGA in the sense that she is anti-intervention, anti-weirdos, and anti-establishment. She is not MAGA in her more traditional Democrat beliefs, such as her anti-self-defense stance. I'm not really sure what her opinion of the free market is.

[Martin Hash]

MAGA has a lot of liberal positions b/c 1980-2000 had lots of liberal positions: protecting jobs with tariffs, for example. Freedom of expression in universities was another. Encouraging families with tax credits, etc. is also a liberal position. So is anti-monopoly, and anti-discrimination. Meritocracy is liberal. (Republicans are nepotists.) MAGA was Tier 2 feminism. (Women in the workforce but still traditional.) Though Trump isn’t for it, inheritance taxes were MAGA. MAGA worked b/c it was liberal traditionalism.

[The Conservative]

MAGA has a lot of liberal positions b/c 1980-2000 had lots of liberal positions: protecting jobs with tariffs, for example. Freedom of expression in universities was another. Encouraging families with tax credits, etc. is also a liberal position. So is anti-monopoly, and anti-discrimination. Meritocracy is liberal. (Republicans are nepotists.) MAGA was Tier 2 feminism. (Women in the workforce but still traditional.) Though Trump isn’t for it, inheritance taxes were MAGA. MAGA worked b/c it was liberal traditionalism.

I think the problem is that it's not the liberal viewpoints she has is the problem, it's the socalists.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Listening to her 3 hours on Rogan. Haven’t heard a lefty view yet. She’s solid af.

EDIT: she’s not going GOP. Just Independent.

[Martin Hash]

Progressivism is not liberalism. Democrats today are progressive (Post Modernism, egalitarianism, Marxism) not liberal. Hell, they’re illiberal.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Oh shit. Rogan’s Tulsi show just kicked off a rebellion.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/aoc ... si-gabbard

[C-Mag]

A teacher is arrested every 24hrs for sexual harrassment of children

At least 269 K-12 educators arrested on child sex crimes in first 9 months of this year
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/at-lea ... onths-year

[Martin Hash]

A teacher is arrested every 24hrs for sexual harrassment of children

At least 269 K-12 educators arrested on child sex crimes in first 9 months of this year
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/at-lea ... onths-year

Frankly, I feel the same way about a 35-yo taking advantage of a naive 18-yo.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Holy shit Marty. Oregon might get a GOP governor.
Pendulum has finally swung.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ore ... r-35-years

[C-Mag]

MAGA has a lot of liberal positions b/c 1980-2000 had lots of liberal positions: protecting jobs with tariffs, for example. Freedom of expression in universities was another. Encouraging families with tax credits, etc. is also a liberal position. So is anti-monopoly, and anti-discrimination. Meritocracy is liberal. (Republicans are nepotists.) MAGA was Tier 2 feminism. (Women in the workforce but still traditional.) Though Trump isn’t for it, inheritance taxes were MAGA. MAGA worked b/c it was liberal traditionalism.

Good post.

This is why I define myself as a Classic Liberal, and not a Conservative.
When the status quo sucks, there is no conserving it.