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The Overton Window & the TDG
I started working on the TDG in 1997.
It has not moved out of the starting block.
Unfortunately.
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=28&id=395
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Is anyone following the 2028 United Stares Presidential Election?
Any sign of potential anti-imperialist candidates? Preferably someone with a chance of getting on the ballot in a non-trivial humber of states.
I'm not much interested in the domestic politics of what Americans do to each other. I'm interested in the rest of the world staying safe, so I am looking for potential candidates who want the USA to stop being a global bully and a military superpower. Widen the #OvertonWindow!
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Here is the reasonable but out of the #overtonwindow take on the #iranwar. First, as always, assume #taco. Second, understand, Iran is demanding war reparations. Third, Iran has already taken the Straight of Hormuz and is using it as a toll booth. Fourth, #Israel and the #USA will not/cannot pay war reparations. So #trump will negotiate a #franchise for Iran to keep taking a toll on all shipping out of the #persiangulf. The smaller gulf states pay for it. USA and Israel declare victory. ✌️
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Jeg faldt lige over denne artikel, og nu da det er et år siden, den blev udgivet (og jeg / vi læste den sidst), synes jeg, at det var relevant at dele den igen. For det er simpelthen så sindssygt, at TV2 i ramme alvor er nødt til at skrive sådan en artikel. Jeg priser, at de gør det, men at der er en anledning til det, er jo skørt.
#USPOL
#OvertonWindow
#OligarchsWillDestroyDemocracyIfWeDontFightBack
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Jeg faldt lige over denne artikel, og nu da det er et år siden, den blev udgivet (og jeg / vi læste den sidst), synes jeg, at det var relevant at dele den igen. For det er simpelthen så sindssygt, at TV2 i ramme alvor er nødt til at skrive sådan en artikel. Jeg priser, at de gør det, men at der er en anledning til det, er jo skørt.
#USPOL
#OvertonWindow
#OligarchsWillDestroyDemocracyIfWeDontFightBack
#StopTheWorldIWantToGetOff -
Jeg faldt lige over denne artikel, og nu da det er et år siden, den blev udgivet (og jeg / vi læste den sidst), synes jeg, at det var relevant at dele den igen. For det er simpelthen så sindssygt, at TV2 i ramme alvor er nødt til at skrive sådan en artikel. Jeg priser, at de gør det, men at der er en anledning til det, er jo skørt.
#USPOL
#OvertonWindow
#OligarchsWillDestroyDemocracyIfWeDontFightBack
#StopTheWorldIWantToGetOff -
Jeg faldt lige over denne artikel, og nu da det er et år siden, den blev udgivet (og jeg / vi læste den sidst), synes jeg, at det var relevant at dele den igen. For det er simpelthen så sindssygt, at TV2 i ramme alvor er nødt til at skrive sådan en artikel. Jeg priser, at de gør det, men at der er en anledning til det, er jo skørt.
#USPOL
#OvertonWindow
#OligarchsWillDestroyDemocracyIfWeDontFightBack
#StopTheWorldIWantToGetOff -
Jeg faldt lige over denne artikel, og nu da det er et år siden, den blev udgivet (og jeg / vi læste den sidst), synes jeg, at det var relevant at dele den igen. For det er simpelthen så sindssygt, at TV2 i ramme alvor er nødt til at skrive sådan en artikel. Jeg priser, at de gør det, men at der er en anledning til det, er jo skørt.
#USPOL
#OvertonWindow
#OligarchsWillDestroyDemocracyIfWeDontFightBack
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The Overton Window & the TDG
Where does this new democracy fit in the Overton Window?
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=28&id=395
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Epstein, Western Decline, & The Moral Collapse Of The ElitesWhat is at stake is no longer who “visited the island” or who “caught a ride on Epstein’s plane.” What is at stake is the fact that networks of this kind only exist when they are backed by deep institutional protection. There is no ritual pedophilia, no human trafficking on a transnational scale, no systematic production of extreme material without political, police, judicial, and media cover. This is not conspiracy: it is the logic of power.
From this point on, the West can no longer hide behind the idea of gradual decline. It is not merely cultural degeneration or a loss of values.
It is something darker: an elite that operates outside any recognizable moral limits and yet continues to govern. People directly or indirectly involved with this world continue to decide elections, wars, economic policies, and the fate of entire societies.
Another decisive element is that we still do not know who is behind the leak. This uncertainty is central. It may be a move by Donald Trump or by sectors aligned with him, attempting to definitively destroy their internal enemies and reorganize power in the United States in a minimally positive direction. It may be the opposite: a controlled release of material intended to pressure Trump into serving the interests of the Democrats and the Deep State.
And the uncomfortable truth, impossible to ignore, is that all of this may still be part of an even deeper and more macabre plan by the Deep State – encompassing both Democrats and Republicans – to “resolve the Epstein issue” through a brutal campaign of collective desensitization, “normalizing” in public opinion the idea that the Western elite is composed of pedophiles, satanists, and cannibals.
This reinforces a critical point: the truth only came out because it stopped being useful to keep it hidden.
For decades, all of this was known behind the scenes. The silence was not the result of investigative failure, but of a high-level decision.
The press stayed silent. The agencies stayed silent. The courts stayed silent.
The system worked exactly as it was supposed to, all in order to protect itself.
#^https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/epstein-western-decline-moral-collapse-elites
The Slow Epstein EarthquakeThe post-modern ‘fall’ into nihilism has crashed finally into its inevitable ‘dead end’ (as predicted by Nietzsche in 1888). The ‘Enlightenment’ paradigm has finally metamorphosed into its opposite: A world without values, meaning or purpose (beyond avaricious self-enrichment). This implies the end too, of the very concept of Truth that used to be at the heart of western civilisation, since Plato.
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This mechanical way of thinking has played a large part in the third tier to the ‘Davos Rupture’ (after the intellectual demise and the collapse of trust in the leadership). Mechanical thinking based in a deterministic pseudo-scientific world view led to economic contradictions which prevented western economists from seeing what was under their nose: a hyper-financialised economic system placed entirely at the service of the oligarchs and insiders.
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Epstein emerges from the myriad emails as a paedophile and utterly immoral certainly, but also as highly intelligent and a serious geo-political player, whose political insights were prized by high-level figures around the globe. He was a master-player behind geo-politics, as Michael Wolff described (as far back as 2018, as well as in recently released email correspondence) in the war between Jewish power and the Gentiles, too.
This suggests that Epstein was less a tool of Intelligence Services, but more their ‘peer’. No wonder leaders sought his company (and for grossly immoral reasons too, we cannot not ignore). And clearly the Deep (uniparty) State manoeuvred through him. And in the end, Epstein knew too much.
#^https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-slow-epstein-earthquake/
#USA #US #usa #us #american #eu #europe #european #western #elites #epstein #epstein-files #epsteinfiles #billionaires #oligachy #banksters #capitalism #politics #power #deepstate #perversion #cannibalism #overtonwindow #amorality #media #lie #deception #fraud against #civilization #humanity #justice #social-justice #democracy #humanrights -
The TDG Could Use Some Helpers
To move through the Overton Window:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=29&id=397
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#ICE's occupation of #Minneapolis is opposed by most Americans.
But the #OvertonWindow is narrow. Debate is framed largely around ICE, rather than as #imperialBlowback from overseas wars and the militarised racism within the USA. The left press explores the big picture, and the #NYT carried an oped by David Wallace-Wells https://archive.is/UGNfs .
But MSM neŵs reporting and Democrats continue to frame ICE as #Trump's overreach, rather than as normal American repression now visiting suburbs.
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Carney isn't a hero (and that's OK) (27 Jan 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/27/i-want-to-do-it/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Carney isn't a hero (and that's OK) (27 Jan 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/27/i-want-to-do-it/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Carney isn't a hero (and that's OK) (27 Jan 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/27/i-want-to-do-it/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Carney isn't a hero (and that's OK) (27 Jan 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/27/i-want-to-do-it/
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I wrote the paragraph below on my personal website, would you believe it, almost 25 years ago in 2001 (thank you, Wayback Machine).
"The Conservative party, under a new leadership following their 1997 humiliation, are desperately trying to reposition themselves. This has resulted in increasingly isolationist and xenophobic policies. Also, they have developed the habit of jumping on every populist bandwagon that comes along, irrespective of whether it is in the long-term interests of the country."
Nothing changes, but I'd happily settle for the Tories of 2001 over the current Labour party. If only I'd known back then what was to come.
#UKPolitics #UKPol
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Overton Window & the TDG
Where is this alternative democracy on the path of "Overton" change?
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=28&id=395
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Just when you think that there can't possibly be anything past literal fascism that people would stan out in public for, thinking they'd get some positive feedback, we get this challenger for literal child porn.
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#epicgames #timsweeney #ai #gaming #prochildporn #pcgamer #freespeech #overtonwindow
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Just when you think that there can't possibly be anything past literal fascism that people would stan out in public for, thinking they'd get some positive feedback, we get this challenger for literal child porn.
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#epicgames #timsweeney #ai #gaming #prochildporn #pcgamer #freespeech #overtonwindow
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Just when you think that there can't possibly be anything past literal fascism that people would stan out in public for, thinking they'd get some positive feedback, we get this challenger for literal child porn.
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#epicgames #timsweeney #ai #gaming #prochildporn #pcgamer #freespeech #overtonwindow
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Just when you think that there can't possibly be anything past literal fascism that people would stan out in public for, thinking they'd get some positive feedback, we get this challenger for literal child porn.
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#epicgames #timsweeney #ai #gaming #prochildporn #pcgamer #freespeech #overtonwindow
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Just when you think that there can't possibly be anything past literal fascism that people would stan out in public for, thinking they'd get some positive feedback, we get this challenger for literal child porn.
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#epicgames #timsweeney #ai #gaming #prochildporn #pcgamer #freespeech #overtonwindow
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I hope that #Mamdani will do better. Initial indicators are hopeful.
Yet a power system which gives leadership to individuals rather than groups leaves the individual vulnerable to the establishment, esp when they are stained for having trespassed outside the narrow frame of a tiny #OvertonWindow.
The key indicator will be how #NYCMayor Mamdani can keep faith and common cause with the #DSA movement which took him to power.
Will Mamdani deliver change? Or follow Obama into vain posturing?
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@tofugolem/115834372849609594
Whenever I hear a conservative complain about the "liberal media" all I hear is someone who thinks the world is flat and wants all Jews and trans people dead complaining that the news agrees with them TOO SUBTLY.
#MediaCriticism #MediaLiteracy #OvertonWindow #EnlightenedCentrism #PoliticalAnalysis #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Antisemitism #Antifascist #Antifa #Equality #RadicalHonesty #LongFormThoughts
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@tofugolem/115834372849609594
Whenever I hear a conservative complain about the "liberal media" all I hear is someone who thinks the world is flat and wants all Jews and trans people dead complaining that the news agrees with them TOO SUBTLY.
#MediaCriticism #MediaLiteracy #OvertonWindow #EnlightenedCentrism #PoliticalAnalysis #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Antisemitism #Antifascist #Antifa #Equality #RadicalHonesty #LongFormThoughts
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@tofugolem/115834372849609594
Whenever I hear a conservative complain about the "liberal media" all I hear is someone who thinks the world is flat and wants all Jews and trans people dead complaining that the news agrees with them TOO SUBTLY.
#MediaCriticism #MediaLiteracy #OvertonWindow #EnlightenedCentrism #PoliticalAnalysis #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Antisemitism #Antifascist #Antifa #Equality #RadicalHonesty #LongFormThoughts
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@tofugolem/115834372849609594
Whenever I hear a conservative complain about the "liberal media" all I hear is someone who thinks the world is flat and wants all Jews and trans people dead complaining that the news agrees with them TOO SUBTLY.
#MediaCriticism #MediaLiteracy #OvertonWindow #EnlightenedCentrism #PoliticalAnalysis #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Antisemitism #Antifascist #Antifa #Equality #RadicalHonesty #LongFormThoughts
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Beyond reasonable doubt: #NigelFarage was a #racist, #antisemitic #bully whilst a pupil at #DulwichCollege.
Today's letter to #TheGuardian by ex-teacher Chloë Deakin follows >30 school contemporaries of Farage. https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/28/of-course-he-abused-pupils-ex-dulwich-teacher-speaks-out-about-farage-racism-claims
It's v unlikely that #Farage will suffer any adverse consequences. #UKparliament won't censure him. His #ReformUK will cheer him. The billionaire media will monster his critics, as will the #techbros' social media.
#ukpol's #OvertonWindow is now open to racists
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'Is the far right better understood as a pathology of the marginal, a last stand of those who cannot adapt to change? Or does it speak for the fears and ambitions of comfortable groups intent on defending a particular vision of order?'
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"Nigel Farage’s track record is emboldening party members and now elected councillors and potentially those that might become MPs to express views that were once considered completely unacceptable in mainstream political discourse"
#ukPol #reformUK #britain #farRight #farage #centreRight #overtonWindow
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The Overton Window & the TDG
It takes time for a good idea to be implemented. There are distinct steps that happen in sequence.
So where is this new democracy in the "Overton Window."
https://www.tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=28&id=395
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Epilogue (1963)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42717/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #crime #crimesagainsthumanity #deterrence #overtonwindow #precedent #punishment #warcrime
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The Middle TDG
This is the second stage of implementation of this new democracy.
The TDG is coming out of obscurity. It starts engaging with society.
Some current and new member may desire a higher position in this movement. But if the right culture is built, they won't go far.
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=31&id=490
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The #OvertonWindow has moved so far since #Reagan that #political and #social norms from 1976, when I cast my first #vote are now seen as #radical, and others which were unthinkable then are called #mainstream.
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When your opposition focuses on responding to your agenda instead of discussing their own, it means you’re #winning.
It means your message is resonating and influencing the conversation.
Your strategy is being effective and the impact of your ideas is breaking through.
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First they came for #JohnBolton and I did not speak, because, like, fuck that guy, right?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/john-bolton-indictment-trump
#CreepingFascism #OvertonWindow #TrumpVendetta #SeriouslyThoughFuckJohnBolton #ButDoItAtTheHague #HenryKissingerToo #DamnTooLate #USPolitics
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For those not familiar w/ #JollyGoodGinger , i encourage people to watch his YT. especially #veterans
i wish he was on #MastodonHis analysis is so spot on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_IM_qIJHsU
At the end he mentions them moving the overton window. i had just made this attempt at a #meme
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Da mir heute hier jemand etwas von der #SpaltungDerGesellschaft erzählen wollte, fühle ich mich sehr gesehen.
via @anna_lillith
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Da mir heute hier jemand etwas von der #SpaltungDerGesellschaft erzählen wollte, fühle ich mich sehr gesehen.
via @anna_lillith
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Da mir heute hier jemand etwas von der #SpaltungDerGesellschaft erzählen wollte, fühle ich mich sehr gesehen.
via @anna_lillith
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Da mir heute hier jemand etwas von der #SpaltungDerGesellschaft erzählen wollte, fühle ich mich sehr gesehen.
via @anna_lillith
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Da mir heute hier jemand etwas von der #SpaltungDerGesellschaft erzählen wollte, fühle ich mich sehr gesehen.
via @anna_lillith
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https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/c9395g2l5yno/simp
跟进一下 #大罢免 的第一轮投票结果，发现是全部没有通过。我看了下文末的数据统计，尽管有相当数量的罢免案同意票都过了1/4门槛，但没有一个罢免案的同意票超过了不同意票
这个结果和当下经济下行社会趋向保守的大趋势相当一致，而且「超过门槛但没有超过不同意票」也反映了相当程度的社会撕裂与政见立场两极化
感觉这个结果是明年美国中期选举的预演就像之前说的，台湾的身份问题目前最关键的并不是来自丝国的外部压力，而是台湾社会内部要先建立共识；而从本次 #大罷免 公众投票结果来看，「台湾建国」显然还远未进入 #奥弗顿之窗 #OvertonWindow。在此之前，作为外人的我们能够给出的态度就只是「支持台湾应当由台湾人来决定自己的身份认同和国际身份」
#TaiwanCanHelp ？Taiwan需要help它自己先……
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https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/c9395g2l5yno/simp
跟进一下 #大罢免 的第一轮投票结果，发现是全部没有通过。我看了下文末的数据统计，尽管有相当数量的罢免案同意票都过了1/4门槛，但没有一个罢免案的同意票超过了不同意票
这个结果和当下经济下行社会趋向保守的大趋势相当一致，而且「超过门槛但没有超过不同意票」也反映了相当程度的社会撕裂与政见立场两极化
感觉这个结果是明年美国中期选举的预演就像之前说的，台湾的身份问题目前最关键的并不是来自丝国的外部压力，而是台湾社会内部要先建立共识；而从本次 #大罷免 公众投票结果来看，「台湾建国」显然还远未进入 #奥弗顿之窗 #OvertonWindow。在此之前，作为外人的我们能够给出的态度就只是「支持台湾应当由台湾人来决定自己的身份认同和国际身份」
#TaiwanCanHelp ？Taiwan需要help它自己先……
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https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/c9395g2l5yno/simp
跟进一下 #大罢免 的第一轮投票结果，发现是全部没有通过。我看了下文末的数据统计，尽管有相当数量的罢免案同意票都过了1/4门槛，但没有一个罢免案的同意票超过了不同意票
这个结果和当下经济下行社会趋向保守的大趋势相当一致，而且「超过门槛但没有超过不同意票」也反映了相当程度的社会撕裂与政见立场两极化
感觉这个结果是明年美国中期选举的预演就像之前说的，台湾的身份问题目前最关键的并不是来自丝国的外部压力，而是台湾社会内部要先建立共识；而从本次 #大罷免 公众投票结果来看，「台湾建国」显然还远未进入 #奥弗顿之窗 #OvertonWindow。在此之前，作为外人的我们能够给出的态度就只是「支持台湾应当由台湾人来决定自己的身份认同和国际身份」
#TaiwanCanHelp ？Taiwan需要help它自己先……
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https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/c9395g2l5yno/simp
跟进一下 #大罢免 的第一轮投票结果，发现是全部没有通过。我看了下文末的数据统计，尽管有相当数量的罢免案同意票都过了1/4门槛，但没有一个罢免案的同意票超过了不同意票
这个结果和当下经济下行社会趋向保守的大趋势相当一致，而且「超过门槛但没有超过不同意票」也反映了相当程度的社会撕裂与政见立场两极化
感觉这个结果是明年美国中期选举的预演就像之前说的，台湾的身份问题目前最关键的并不是来自丝国的外部压力，而是台湾社会内部要先建立共识；而从本次 #大罷免 公众投票结果来看，「台湾建国」显然还远未进入 #奥弗顿之窗 #OvertonWindow。在此之前，作为外人的我们能够给出的态度就只是「支持台湾应当由台湾人来决定自己的身份认同和国际身份」
#TaiwanCanHelp ？Taiwan需要help它自己先……
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“Trying to appease the right is a fool's errand”
I wanted to dwell on this point for a moment. A lot of ink has been spilled by so-called #political pundits penning opinion pieces in which they claim that #KamalaHarris and the #Democrats lost the #PresidentialElection because the #DemocraticParty has become too “woke”, which (so they claim) alienated enough of the voting population to throw the #election to #Trump.
I completely disagree with this diagnosis of why the Democratic Party lost the Presidency. Let’s face it: the Democrats lost the Presidency because Kamala Harris was an uninspiring, milquetoast candidate with an uninspiring, milquetoast vision for the future—just like #Biden before her. Her #policy proposals were nothing short of stale attempts to eat around the edges of issues that are systemic to American #capitalism. Like, what was up with that “Economy of Opportunities” crap? I think when I heard her explain her “Opportunity Economy” proposal, I must have yawned and said “So basically she’s got nothing?”
#WorkingClass Americans need a sharp break from the trajectory this country has been on for decades. I would argue that that sharp break needs to come in the form of rapidly moving away from capitalism and towards #Socialism. Kamala Harris was not a “sharp break” candidate. She was a business as usual candidate.
#DonaldTrump was right about one thing: this country IS stagnating (and even entering the “fall” half of “rise and fall”). American capitalism is in crisis. And it is precisely when capitalism is in crisis that #fascism is able to break through and go mainstream (as we are witnessing in real time). American voters broke for Trump because they instinctively knew that we are on the decline and need a major shakeup. Trump was the only candidate promising just that. Of course, everybody who *wasn’t* won over by his #sophistry knows that he doesn’t have any real solutions and will only serve to accelerate the decline.
I want to go back and underscore that “trying to appease the right is a fool's errand”. If the Democrats go down the path of “moving closer to the center” in the hopes of poaching some of the #GOP’s voters, then the #RepublicanParty will just move even further to the right so as to differentiate themselves from the Democrats.
Congrats, #Dems! You shifted Party politics to the right, chasing “moderate voters”, the #Republicans moved farther to the right in response, and the result is that #USpolitics as a whole has shifted rightward. The #OvertonWindow has been moved and ideas once considered outlandish and extreme start being normalized. And the U.S. gets more fascistic.
On the relationship between capitalism and fascism:
https://isreview.org/issue/107/clara-zetkin-and-struggle-against-fascism/index.html -
CW: Politics
Can't help thinking that the politics around #Ukraine this week was a coordinated action by the regular bad actors.
I'm thinking of it as 'throwing a #DeadCat through the #OvertonWindow' (although it's really rudimentary 'art of the deal' stuff)
Trump's 'Zelenskyy is a dictator' was the over-reaching cat that enabled Farage to say (after breath had been baited) 'Trump is wrong, but we should consider elections in Ukraine' as an (apparently) moderate view.
There's always a longer game.
