BAGGERS FOR BILLIONAIRES = NEVER WILL UNDERSTAND THAT!
“What’s the Matter With Kansas?” published 2004 = The Right had momentum and fiery self-righteousness for a stupid and barbaric philosophy = by THOMAS FRANK
Tea Party = SAME GOP 1% = BAGGERS FOR BILLIONAIRES = NEVER WILL UNDERSTAND THAT!
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback right-wing henchmen = inflicted a stinging defeat on the moderate wing of the GOP = the traditional Republican weapon of massive tax cuts.
Brownback = Deliver lasting damage to the state’s public schools + harassment of abortion providers + Tough for people to vote = Wreckage Kansas now OPEN FOR BUSINESS UNDER the loving mercantile gaze of a “BIG GOD.”
BROWNBACK REFUSES MEDICAID EXPANSION = LIES
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Democrats = believe demographics alone will defeat the GOP = Fantasy
DEMS = Big thinkers of the Democratic Party conclude they can safely ignore WORKING CLASS using the MINORITY VOTER GROWTH + “millennials”
DEMS = Members of president’s cabinet = Meritocratic NEOLIBERAL believers = Openly in love with professional ELITISTS = more than ideology = awful story of “The Best and the Brightest” = EXTREME CENTRISM
RIGHT MOVEMENT = Last 40 years = conservatives invented conspiracy theories + Democrats did nothing while their pals in organized labor were clubbed into the ground
DEMS = Leaped to pass NAFTA + Repeal Glass-Steagall + LEGALIZE DERIVATIVES = Deindustrialization Rust Belt + WHITE COLLAR FRAUD AND WELFARE + Depopulation of the Great Plains = Inequality grows worse and worse every year
DEMS = Left working-class voters with nowhere else to go = RIGHT MOVEMENT
DEMS = Decades of moderating + Capitulating + Triangulating themselves into CORP CONTROL = Clintonism for fundraising
DEMS = ZERO appeal to working-class voters BUSH electoral disasters = Capitulations like Al Gore’s in 2000 = political poison = DEMS REFUSED TO MOVE LEFT = MONEY TOO GOOD FROM RICH = Friends with Big Finance + FILL Big Prisons
DEMS = Big thinkers of the Democratic Party conclude they can safely ignore Working-Class I described using the MINORITY VOTER GROWTH + “millennials” = unstoppable army at their back
DEMS = See no need to win back working-class voters or solve wrenching economic problems = No need to lift a finger but sit back and enjoy the demographic forces = KRUGMAN saying after the 2012 election, “Who cares what’s the matter with Kansas?”
Wheezing Democratic Party smug fantasy of demographic triumph will take them the way of all the other smug mechanical dreams = A DEEP DROP into DIRECTIONLESS irrelevance!
INEQUALITY and AMERICAN ANGER = Economic Populism = DEFEAT GOP
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Notorious “Summer of Mercy” in 1991 = Beginning of Kansas’s long march Right
Operation Rescue = chose Wichita as the place to make its stand = NOT in the South.
The right ate its way through the good sense of the nation = nation’s big right turn
RIGHT MOVEMENT = made the folkways of ordinary Americans into a kind of a cult
RIGHT MOVEMENT = Economic policies brought catastrophic harm to Americans
RIGHT MOVEMENT = Philosophy = Foe of ATATE was RULED BUSH DISASTER
RIGHT MOVEMENT = Common-man-hailing populism that Raised up an economic elite
RIGHT MOVEMENT = A Spectacle = A Circus of Delusion, Deceit, Devotion Disaster!
RIGHT MOVEMENT = Built out its culture of endless grievance = Gingrich 1994 + Fox
RIGHT MOVEMENT = GW Bush ascended the throne = Serious social movement
RIGHT MOVEMENT = Triumphs were preposterous = hold up a mirror and show this country the deep ironies
Kansas 1999 newspapers reported nasty dispute over the right way to teach evolution.
Kansas = BUSH revolt = most fatuous journalistic conceit of RED VERSUS BLUE = great fake showdown of all-American authenticity and highbrow liberal phoniness.
Kansas = HURT during GOP 30+ Years of BIG BUSINESS neoliberal decades = But KANSANS sign up MORE OF THESE BOSSES – WHY?
“What’s the Matter With Kansas?” published 2004 = The Right had momentum and fiery self-righteousness for a stupid and barbaric philosophy
Liberals = weak and anxious to compromise = even though they were often in the right.
RIGHT MOVEMENT = Began 1970s = NEVER served average people well = BUT THEY VOTED FOR MORE privatizing and deregulating Republicans as their situation grew worse.
WHY did people getting the shaft from the GOP have such trouble seeing it that way?
7th year of the GREAT BUSH Slump from Hell = TOP O.OOO13%‘s ugly SHIPPING OF JOBS TO SLAVE LABOR ASIA and deindustrialization of the Midwest and depopulation in farm country = the dilapidation of small-town America
Early 2000‘s America coming off a TECH economic boom with THE MARKET = GOD
Midwest = Historically Famous for its hard-times uprisings.
People were angry NOW = But not at the forces that were tearing their world apart = destruction triggered a reaction = Discontent pulls farther to the right.
Kansans = Who lose their jobs, land, or life savings head out to become registered GOP and protest abortion clinics and/or join the John Birch Society.
Kansans = Ask about remedies their ancestors push for unions, antitrust, public ownership = THEY PUMP TO FAR RIGHT TALKING POINTS
Deregulated banks = 2008 Financial Crisis = More deregulation calls = GOP HOUSE
Kansas GOP political battles are about class = social status
ESTABLISHMENT GOP = lawyers, newspaper publishers, professionals
TeaParty GOP = Blue-collar suburbs and humbler jobs
RIGHT MOVEMENT = Descendents of the Populists were in rebellion = furious at “elitists” demanding more power for the ELITISTS = Reverse French Revolution
RIGHT MOVEMENT = Demanding more power for the aristocracy = FULL BLOWN proletarian movement in which hard-working average citizen angry at upper-class wanted the UPPER-CLASS TO HAVE MORE POWER.
RIGHT MOVEMENT = Social Grievances = Hate ELITISTS + Hollywood + GOV+ scientists = part of everyday life = BUT WANTING TO GIVE THEM MORE POWER!
GOP = Gets WHlTE-WORKING CLASS VOTES with Disastrous Results for them
GOP mentally = Off-limits due to blatant contradictions between their populist rhetoric and their rich-enriching policy deeds.
GOP = Talks proletarian righteousness constantly = Sentimental way but for HARD CORE anger-stirring culture-war clichés = The Koch Brothers conservative bull CHIOT
RIGHT MOVEMENT = Secretly LOVES AND SUPPORTS RULE by professional ELITISTS = THEY claim to HATE
FACT: INEQUALITY = TRUMPS THE GOP AND MULTINATIONAL DEMOCRATS!
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