Hello Brian and Nettimers,
Brian commented,
"When it comes to national politics, you have to have a
shared vision and the beginnings of a shared plan. The vision has to be
encompassing enough to eventually constitute a majority."
The left (for lack of a more detailed descriptor) in the U.S. is so
splintered that it is unable to project on a significant scale "the
beginnings of a shared plan." AMEN!
AND
"Contemporary polarization is spatial and educational."
These are very basic points of attack - central to what Project 2025 has
in its sights - towards undermining, eradicating, the remaining remnants
of civil society and public institutions - especially public schools.
The DeSantis program in Florida is a prime example of this. I think I
understand better what you mean by 'polarization' - the resistance to
the DeSantis program is limited because there is an atomization of the
resistance instead of coalitions; Polarities, of one form or another,
are fighting individual battles instead of some form of common front.
Secondly, I agree that the polarization is spatial and this is extremely
important; spatiality in this sense means a systemic delimiting of the
public sphere either by the police or by the de facto censoring of
information or robust forms of media discourse. We see this in terms of
the repression of protests relating to the genocide in Gaza, closing of
libraries, and the homogenization of popular culture and means of
communication. best for now allan
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