From the monthly archives: November 2015
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Click over to a must-read post?from James Hansen, one of the top climate scientists in the field. ?This bit got me to thinking back to something:
The scientific community agrees on a crucial fact: we must leave most remaining fossil fuels in the ground, or our children and future generations are screwed.
I thought back to Chris?Hayes’ brilliant?2014 piece in?The Atlantic,?The New Abolitionism. ?It described how?asking oil companies to abandon?$20 trillion+ of oil reserves was basically what we asked slaveholders to do?in the lead-up to the Civil War, with slaves/slavery at that time worth?around $10?trillion, in adjusted terms.
Another Republican child star heads to the dark side.?My take on this phenomenon is that it’s mostly aimed at suburban parents who are truly terrified at their kids being attracted to the siren’s song of liberalism, and to a lesser degree at older and sentimental types. That so many seem to wind up taking that exact journey should worry them, perhaps?
It isn’t being said much, but while the Republican Party deserves the lion’s share of credit/blame/mockery for creating Donald Trump–“grown-up establishment” just as much as the Bircher types, if not moreso–the media deserves a significant amount of it as well.?There’s the?obvious sense in which it’s true: the media has loved giving coverage for decades to a man who would, under normal circumstances, be a local celebrity at best, best known for ruining Atlantic City, having a ridiculous outsized personality, and erecting a bunch of buildings that nobody likes. But they asked what he thought about issues. They patronized his presidential non-runs. And the coverage they gave him at the outset of his current campaign turned him from a guy with terrible approvals into a very strong Republican contender. But apart and aside from that, Trump’s just playing the incentives of the system as well as anyone. Sure, he’ll get criticism from some quarters of the media for making shit up about Muslims cheering about 9/11. But most outlets will print his claims in a larger size font than any criticism. Headlines like “Trump Wrong About 9/11 Claims” might not be so great for Trump (or they might be), but come on, we’re not going to see those. Trump knows that he can basically say anything he wants and at most he’ll have to deal with a little bit of “opinions differ” stuff, while he will get to set the emphasis thoroughly. Because the media buys so thoroughly into a very specific notion of civility, it cannot help but be complicit in turning itself into a vehicle for untruth, and it clearly has no idea how to stop:
Much as austerity is presented as?just plain common sense, it’s ultimately just a choice about economic resource allocation, nothing more.
Something that?needles me to no end:
Trump and Carson …?received similar “trust” ratings for several questions in the Reuters/Ipsos survey. ?Only on economic issues did Trump take a commanding lead, earning 59 percent for his ability to manage the economy.
New poll shows Trump getting his?gaudiest numbers yet. This was predictable, and predicted:?Trump is?very well trusted by Republicans on these issues, moreso than Rubio and the others. And unlike Rubio, who understands that there are some limitations he has to follow to keep him electable with the general electorate (and that he has an?interest in preserving the reputation of the party he wants to lead), Trump has no limits and doesn’t worry about going too far. So while this could be a moment for Rubio to shine, there’s Trump, advocating for frankly fascist measures to be taken against a suspect class. Rubio cannot top that, cannot match it, without seriously harming his reputation as a serious person. I guess the thinking is that “the base” will recognize that Trump is just insane on these issues, and that they?need Rubio.?Instead, the opposite is happening.
TPM:
“I’ve said to them from the start, ‘Nobody’s asked you to do anything. Do whatever works for you, for your district,’” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who opposed the legislation, told journalists.
I tend to think the people who may die because of this might be asking them to do something.
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