alignments and outcomes: working class + professional class ⇒ social democracy professional class + plutocrats ⇒ liberal plutocracy (“neoliberalism”) working class + plutocrats ⇒ fascism (this is an old thing i periodically repost,)

management of the US dollar is now in the hands of… the people who’ve been buying a ton of bitcoin in a bet on the imminent death of the US dollar.

the resolution to the debate about “deliverism” is it only works if what gets delivered is substantial, material results prior to the election. if what’s delivered is just the legislation, mb some change that will eventually bear fruit but takes time, opponents gin up cynicism and fear no problem.

i’m not quite sure but i’m pretty sure this is really Barry Cynamon, one of the most amazing people, now on BlueSky. @cynamon.bsky.social

hi.

if you are blaming “we” or “the electorate” or “the American people”, you are not doing anything useful.

i am so terrified and heartbroken i am almost catatonic. but the future is not yet written. the worst outcomes are far from certain. we still, all and each, have our parts to play in writing this story.

all things to everyone, it turns out, is no things to anyone.

do people do event studies of heart attack rates around elections?

suddenly everybody is on-board with american carnage.

not just reproductive rights. paid sick leave, minimum wage increases, slapping down “school choice” — all by ballot initiative in red states while they also vote for right-wing tough guys. see Pavlina Tcherneva (in the bad place, sorry) x.com/ptcherneva/s...

one way to think about it is the electorate wanted Teddy Roosevelt and Donald Trump seemed the closest thing on offer.

the marginal voter was not voting on the basis of “issues”. they were choosing who best fit the role — in their imagination, by virtue of their parasocial attachments — of hero who can fix it.

parasociability is a tremendous challenge to contemporary theories of democracy.

“If the pattern of the past holds, the future won’t be majority-minority; it will be a white majority, where Spanish last names are common.” @jamellebouie.net, writing in 2014 democracyjournal.org/magazine/31/...

we are all counting on you!

i think of a tweet you once wrote and compare the America of 9/10/2001 to what we are living today.

when the threshold is a supermajority and a clear majority supports, it is inaccurate to write “Florida voters have rejected”. Florida voters support, by a large margin, but fail to meet the 60% threshold required to amend the state constitution.

scab zombie needle. stay away.

you may be confusing it with uranus.