tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post6071603408989513918..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: GOP/NRA Is the Froth of the Anarcho-Capitalist CauldronDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-4466487750992390462012-12-24T15:20:10.311-08:002012-12-24T15:20:10.311-08:00Glad you didn't take it amiss -- also, I'm...Glad you didn't take it amiss -- also, I'm a teacher and a pedantic tone is something of an occupational hazard.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-20010400390901985812012-12-24T14:47:09.793-08:002012-12-24T14:47:09.793-08:00Thank you for your reply, and indeed your writing ...Thank you for your reply, and indeed your writing style reflects a harshness, but in my experience harshness also reflects sincerity.Black guy from the future pasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14136170325730022110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-65768554793122409742012-12-24T14:09:01.740-08:002012-12-24T14:09:01.740-08:00They aren't for no government. They've got...They aren't for no government. They've got a hard on for the DoD, the biggest government bureacracy in human history.jollyspaniardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999141103840765243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-90092319093493339872012-12-24T13:12:24.481-08:002012-12-24T13:12:24.481-08:00I have no "faith" in Obama at all, and p...I have no "faith" in Obama at all, and people who say such things tend to be very glib and uninformed at precisely the moment when they fancy they are being serious and informative. This is not only annoying, but counter-productive. <br /><br />Of course I am well aware that Obama is to my right politically, I'm a green democratic socialist feminist queer trained in non-violence at the King Center in Atlanta and teaching critical theory at UC Berkeley and a San Francisco Art School, for heaven's sake. I'm as far to the left as you can be without being crazy, essentially. <br /><br />But I do actually know what Obama's policy accomplishments are, by which I mean to say I have actually read them, and actually know what they do. You should spend an afternoon reading actually knowledgeable people talking about the progressive provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Seriously.<br /><br />Obama is already objectively the most progressive President since FDR -- that is true, and it has real consequences to real people, even if it may also be properly seen as an indictment of how reactionary US politics have been throughout our century as well. (If you are tempted to educate me about the Unitary Executive and Drone warfare -- both of which I revile as any sensible citizen would -- I recommend you explore the archives on those subjects before doing so, and yes I know everything there is to know about Chained CPI and pretty much every other wonky term denoting feared Obama betrayals over the last four years as well, so be warned).<br /><br />In other words, you should take care to actually know what my assumptions are before you designate them as misplaced. The Obama Administration does indeed represent in my view a key inflection point in US politics given that the Obama coalition represents a host of diversifying secularizing planetizing realities that have undermined the post-Nixonian Southern Strategy, the post-Reagan Christian coalition, and a set of market developmentalist discourses discounting stakeholder-accountable fact-based harm-reduction policy models prevailing in the corporate-military think-tank public sphere of the post-WW2 Washington Consensus. He is engaged in progressive reform against the unprecedented obstruction of an unprecedently crazy GOP and doing so in a way that does not replicate the failed Clintonian strategy of triangulation because it is informed by community organizing strategies of best-compromise and long-term enablement and virtuous circles. The angel, as well as the devil, is in the details and informed people who want to help out should pay attention to them.<br /><br />My claims have nothing to do utopian dreams and guilty liberal fee fees. Just saying.<br /><br />Also, since you are a newcomer to this blog -- I should warn you, my written voice sounds harsh and sarcastic and off-putting but believe me when I say I'm not mad at you at all.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-15373918477997989212012-12-24T12:44:03.738-08:002012-12-24T12:44:03.738-08:00"the Obama Administration is a gathering of t..."the Obama Administration is a gathering of the forces for a generation of progress"<br /><br />Dale, you put too much faith in Obama. How can you know that a generation of progress is coming? Already there is a sense of disillusionment and disappointment with the administration. And Obama's politics are firmly center-right. I am not saying Obama is as bad as the republicans, he most certainly is not. But the "change we can believe in" has been more like the status quo we can believe in. Obama talks a smooth and attractive game, but then again if he were not for corporate interests and domination, I am sure he would not have been elected in the first place. In short, I am saying your assumptions might a little misplaced. Black guy from the future pasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14136170325730022110noreply@blogger.com