This is the same outfit who gave HA Goodman center of the top of the page treatment for his 'open letter' which begged the FBI to prosecute Hillary Clinton.
That pious hope is up in smoke.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/05/ha-goodman-is-now-in-sack-cloth-and.html
They've had a number of writers suggest that between Hillary and Trump 'the lesser of two evils is unclear.'
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-berner-writer-at-salon-endorses.html?
Then there's Camille Paglia who seems to be behind Trump too now that Bernie has Berned out. Nice job Pennsylvania in throwing egg in her face in her own state.
Now we have another such Trump endorsement from a Salon writer.
"Our awful elites gutted America. Now they dare ring alarms about Trump, Sanders — and cast themselves as saviors."
"Both parties ignored workers, spewed hate, enriched themselves, hollowed out democracy. Now the problem's populism?"
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/06/our_awful_elites_gutted_america_now_they_dare_ring_alarms_about_trump_sanders_and_cast_themselves_as_saviors/
We can see Anis Shivani's problem right away. It's called false equivalence. How has the Democratic party spewed hate?
"This week, on the night of the Indiana primary, I read one of the most loathsome political screeds it has been my misfortune to encounter."
"It was an alarm bell raised by Andrew Sullivan, arguably the greatest hypocrite of the Bush era, on par with his partner in many crimes Christopher Hitchens (remember “Islamofascism?”). Sullivan proclaims that the election of Trump would be an “extinction-level” event. Well, perhaps it will be."
"But the extinction Sullivan is most worried about is clearly that of his own breed of callous elites, who could care less about normal human beings who do not have decent jobs and who live in crappy housing and who are so desperate to find a way out of the trap that even someone like Trump starts sounding rational to them."
"Now this panic alert, designed to get us in line behind Hillary, is raised by the man who ended The New Republic as we knew it (which then went on to end and then end again), promoting racist and imperialist dogma during his reign at the magazine in the 1990s, and then, with his finger in the wind (which to him and that other arch-hypocrite Hitchens meant being like George Orwell), turned into one of the biggest shills for the war on terror, the Iraq war, the whole works, all the while denouncing the fifth column within our ranks. This so-called journalist, who has no record of liberal consistency, who keeps shifting to whoever holds moral power at any given moment, is scaring us about the mortal threat that is Trump."
How exactly could anyone read Andrew Sullivan as trying to get 'us' behind Hillary. News flash: most of us already are.
Sullivan is actually another Hillary basher, so Shivani is confused.
"No, the danger is the elites, who have made such a joke of the democratic process, who have so perverted and rotted it from within, that the entire edifice is crumbling (to the consternation of the elites). Both parties are in terminal decline after forty years of ignoring the travails of the average worker (the Republicans admit they’re in the intensive care unit, while the Democrats calling for Sanders to quit already have yet to come around to admitting that they might have the flu), and voters on both right and left have at last—and this is a breath of relief—stopped caring about the cultural distractions that have kept the elites in power. No, they want their jobs back, even if it means building a wall, keeping Muslims out, deporting the illegals, and starting trade wars with China and Japan—because what else did the elites give them, they’re still opposing a living wage!"
The Republicans are in the intensive care unit, but the Dems are actually in pretty good health-much as Shivani and other Berners may lament that fact.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/05/donald-trump-party-unity-my-ass.html
His problem is false equivalence between the parties. He claims there is no ideological difference which is just not true. He is also blind the the fact that the Dems are actually a very healthy party right now.
They are totally unified behind Hillary and a clear agenda for the future.
The Bernie challenge actually showed the party's strength: he lost and lost badly.
His false equivalence is dangerous. Even Noam Chomsky always corrects people who say there is no difference. If you are a woman or person of color, certainly if you are a Muslim, it makes a huge difference whether the President is Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.
It takes someone considerably either privileged or thoughtless to say things like Shivani says here:
"The worst offenders of all are the American left’s cultural warriors, who daily wage some new battle over some imagined cultural offense, which has nothing to do with the lives of normal people but only the highly tuned sensibilities of those in the academic, publishing, and media ecospheres."
Sure racism, sexism, and bigotry are merely imagined cultural offenses. These are the words of dangerous ignorance.
"The Hillary supporters have the authoritarian mentality of small property owners. They are the mirror image of the “realist” Trump supporters, the difference being that the Trump supporters fall below the median income level, and are distressed and insecure, while the Hillary supporters stand above the median income level, and are prosperous but still insecure."
So this is a war against small property owners? I thought Bernie wasn't a Marxist who wants to take over the means of production?
Even this jibe about income levels is wrong. In many states she beat him among those who make under $30,000 per year. Ok, let me guess: they are voting against their interests, just like Black and Latino voters.
That pious hope is up in smoke.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/05/ha-goodman-is-now-in-sack-cloth-and.html
They've had a number of writers suggest that between Hillary and Trump 'the lesser of two evils is unclear.'
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-berner-writer-at-salon-endorses.html?
Then there's Camille Paglia who seems to be behind Trump too now that Bernie has Berned out. Nice job Pennsylvania in throwing egg in her face in her own state.
Now we have another such Trump endorsement from a Salon writer.
"Our awful elites gutted America. Now they dare ring alarms about Trump, Sanders — and cast themselves as saviors."
"Both parties ignored workers, spewed hate, enriched themselves, hollowed out democracy. Now the problem's populism?"
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/06/our_awful_elites_gutted_america_now_they_dare_ring_alarms_about_trump_sanders_and_cast_themselves_as_saviors/
We can see Anis Shivani's problem right away. It's called false equivalence. How has the Democratic party spewed hate?
"This week, on the night of the Indiana primary, I read one of the most loathsome political screeds it has been my misfortune to encounter."
"It was an alarm bell raised by Andrew Sullivan, arguably the greatest hypocrite of the Bush era, on par with his partner in many crimes Christopher Hitchens (remember “Islamofascism?”). Sullivan proclaims that the election of Trump would be an “extinction-level” event. Well, perhaps it will be."
"But the extinction Sullivan is most worried about is clearly that of his own breed of callous elites, who could care less about normal human beings who do not have decent jobs and who live in crappy housing and who are so desperate to find a way out of the trap that even someone like Trump starts sounding rational to them."
"Now this panic alert, designed to get us in line behind Hillary, is raised by the man who ended The New Republic as we knew it (which then went on to end and then end again), promoting racist and imperialist dogma during his reign at the magazine in the 1990s, and then, with his finger in the wind (which to him and that other arch-hypocrite Hitchens meant being like George Orwell), turned into one of the biggest shills for the war on terror, the Iraq war, the whole works, all the while denouncing the fifth column within our ranks. This so-called journalist, who has no record of liberal consistency, who keeps shifting to whoever holds moral power at any given moment, is scaring us about the mortal threat that is Trump."
How exactly could anyone read Andrew Sullivan as trying to get 'us' behind Hillary. News flash: most of us already are.
Sullivan is actually another Hillary basher, so Shivani is confused.
"No, the danger is the elites, who have made such a joke of the democratic process, who have so perverted and rotted it from within, that the entire edifice is crumbling (to the consternation of the elites). Both parties are in terminal decline after forty years of ignoring the travails of the average worker (the Republicans admit they’re in the intensive care unit, while the Democrats calling for Sanders to quit already have yet to come around to admitting that they might have the flu), and voters on both right and left have at last—and this is a breath of relief—stopped caring about the cultural distractions that have kept the elites in power. No, they want their jobs back, even if it means building a wall, keeping Muslims out, deporting the illegals, and starting trade wars with China and Japan—because what else did the elites give them, they’re still opposing a living wage!"
The Republicans are in the intensive care unit, but the Dems are actually in pretty good health-much as Shivani and other Berners may lament that fact.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/05/donald-trump-party-unity-my-ass.html
His problem is false equivalence between the parties. He claims there is no ideological difference which is just not true. He is also blind the the fact that the Dems are actually a very healthy party right now.
They are totally unified behind Hillary and a clear agenda for the future.
The Bernie challenge actually showed the party's strength: he lost and lost badly.
His false equivalence is dangerous. Even Noam Chomsky always corrects people who say there is no difference. If you are a woman or person of color, certainly if you are a Muslim, it makes a huge difference whether the President is Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.
It takes someone considerably either privileged or thoughtless to say things like Shivani says here:
"The worst offenders of all are the American left’s cultural warriors, who daily wage some new battle over some imagined cultural offense, which has nothing to do with the lives of normal people but only the highly tuned sensibilities of those in the academic, publishing, and media ecospheres."
Sure racism, sexism, and bigotry are merely imagined cultural offenses. These are the words of dangerous ignorance.
"The Hillary supporters have the authoritarian mentality of small property owners. They are the mirror image of the “realist” Trump supporters, the difference being that the Trump supporters fall below the median income level, and are distressed and insecure, while the Hillary supporters stand above the median income level, and are prosperous but still insecure."
So this is a war against small property owners? I thought Bernie wasn't a Marxist who wants to take over the means of production?
Even this jibe about income levels is wrong. In many states she beat him among those who make under $30,000 per year. Ok, let me guess: they are voting against their interests, just like Black and Latino voters.
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