tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post1237380701166902036..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: GrumpyDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-82849799485101491152016-02-17T17:17:37.879-08:002016-02-17T17:17:37.879-08:00I don't think your fears are unfounded actuall...I don't think your fears are unfounded actually. There certainly has been a lot of anti-pragmatism in the angrier elements of the populist left on this side of the Atlantic which has led to stupidity at times. <br />jollyspaniardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999141103840765243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-3143264246183502422016-02-14T15:27:55.077-08:002016-02-14T15:27:55.077-08:00It can be hard to keep perspective when you're...It can be hard to keep perspective when you're in the midst of the scrum. I worry that so much Sanders supporter demonization of Clinton is re-activating and consolidating right-wing narratives that will benefit Republicans in the general -- eg, Hillary is "untrustworthy" "unlikable" "not like us" is ways for which no evidence to the contrary can be provided, not least because there is a lot of diffuse structural sexism/ageism at the root of it. Also, while I was initially pleased that Sanders would push Clinton to a left where more voters are and also educate the broader electorate about more radical democratic possibilities in ways that would facilitate future progressive change, I now worry that his campaign is instead mobilizing anti-pragmatism attitudes, fandom-in-lieu-of-organizing, purely symbolic theatricality in ways that do harm to future partisan reform prospects while at once threatening base demoralization and depressed voter turnouts at a time of maximal GOP racist-populism war-on-women antidiplomatic-warhawkery etc. I have long suspected many in the Sanders coalition are phony Dems -- Nader third-party spoilers and Ron Paul adolescent-insurgents, in which case losing them won't imperil Obama/Clinton coalition of the ascendant -- but as the campaign continues on, I'm not sure that slippages are not occurring that threaten to undermine that actually-winning and inherently-progressive coalition at our peril. Not sure if things look scarier from inside than from outside, though. I welcome your observations! Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-13870957738594578492016-02-14T15:07:56.735-08:002016-02-14T15:07:56.735-08:00You make some interesting and well considered poin...You make some interesting and well considered points. I suspect Hilary might come out looking better through a long drawn out battle with Sanders. She's certainly strengthened as a candidate since she last ran for office and a lot of hard fought debates with and campaigning against a populist blowhard may very well strengthen her in the election.<br /><br />jollyspaniardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999141103840765243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-27937035298602507512016-02-12T22:33:27.204-08:002016-02-12T22:33:27.204-08:00If I did and you appreciated it, this was an odd w...If I did and you appreciated it, this was an odd way of showing it. Primaries make tempers flare, that's for sure.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-49541592020261237452016-02-12T22:25:55.257-08:002016-02-12T22:25:55.257-08:00I see that you removed the "F__k You" sm...I see that you removed the "F__k You" smears from your screed. Perhaps you have a guilty conscience in your hubris for possibly offending blog friends.<br /><br />--Katie L.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com