Views of immigration have also become more partisan. In an April 2005 poll that asked whether immigration strengthened or weakened the U.S., a plurality of 48% said it weakened the nation, with 41% saying immigration strengthened the country.
Now, a substantial majority of 64% view immigration as strengthening the country, while 28% say it weakens the U.S. The change is due almost entirely to a sharp shift in Democrats’ views. In 2005, just 45% of Democrats said the country was strengthened by immigration; now the share is 81%.
Democrats also are now more inclined to see globalization as beneficial, compared with 20 years ago, when both parties had largely similar views of the matter.
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I didn’t come around to disliking identity politics recently. Long before the 2016 election, 15 years ago in fact, I predicted the kind of white identitarian politics that eventually came to fruition in the last election. It had seemed to me inevitable, from the beginning, that white nationalism would arise as a necessary outgrowth if liberals kept up with their identity politics obsession, and that is precisely where we find ourselves…
Liberals have been on a relentless mission to transform people’s souls — to rid them of impure ideas about race and sexuality — for exactly the period of time that neoliberalism has deprived them of actual power to do anything about class inequality. The neo-Nazis are latecomers to this game; they have only recently adopted the cultural techniques that have already been mastered by the liberals.
When Richard Spencer, an originator of the term “alt-right,” discusses race as destiny, he is no different than liberals who have been articulating every aspect of identity, split into narrower and narrower niches, in precisely the same terms. Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, who has been trying to lend a respectable veneer to racism for more than 30 years, suddenly finds his thought in sync with the “alt-right,” his ideas gaining traction because he can now ask his audiences, “Isn’t what we white nationalists seek exactly what every other race wants in America?” And he’s right, on that score, because separatism, or the privileging of biological destiny, is a notion popularized by liberal identity politics…
What identity politics has ultimately led to is an uncontainable right. Through most of our modern history, the far right has been containable, because on the liberal side there was not a corresponding movement of mysticism and soul-cleansing grandeur, which is what identity politics is. The right, too, was forced to speak in the language of rationality, as was true of Establishment conservatives of every stripe following the successes of the New Deal. This went on well into the 1980s. But for the past 30 years, the right has not faced true opposition for its growing dream of nationalist mysticism, because liberals have been doing the same within their own communitarian splintering among various groups…
Furthermore, the rise of each group in terms of recognition encourages countervailing reactions amongst other groups, so that recognition becomes simultaneously self-inflating (breeding reactionism and irrationality) and an impossible ideal to attain. Again, the rise of white nationalism recently is a testament to this tendency, a natural corollary to the very logic of identity politics. Now we are truly in a zero-sum game, with the various liberal identity politics groups, constituting half the country, pitted against the white Trumpian half of the country…
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Vincent Law has a short piece on the need to use “The Generation Identitaire Model”. He links to a couple of good GI videos, but I’ve yet to see one as effective as this one, which I’ve previously posted a couple of times. Everything about this video is superb agitprop. Taking what others could construe as a ‘low attendance’ flashmob type event, but through an anticipated police response, along with skilled editing and score, make it a fantastic propaganda video about white identity and resistance against the state:
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It seem The Organizer is trying to shape who becomes the Dem nominee for 2020. From The Hill:
Democrats are expressing concern that advisers and aides to former President Obama have already begun signaling which candidate they might support for the White House in 2020.
Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama’s closest confidantes, and David Simas, the CEO of Obama’s foundation, have sent smoke signals urging former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) to enter the race.
Simas, who once served as a top aide to Patrick, is an ardent supporter of the former governor, sources tell The Hill, while Jarrett has privately told friends that she would do what it takes to support him.
And Politico reported last month that Jarrett believes a President Patrick is “what my heart desires.”…
Axios’s Mike Allen mentioned Patrick as a favorite in Obamaworld in his popular newsletter on Friday…
It seems Obama has a level of control over Deval (the well spoken black man) but perhaps not Kamala (the more angry-sounding black woman from the other coast):
One top Obama fundraiser, however, said it’s clear the inner circle has a clear favorite in Patrick and that it’s no coincidence they’ve put that storyline out there.
“It’s blatantly overt,” the fundraiser said told The Hill.
The fundraiser speculated that one reason Obama’s circle is putting out smoke about Patrick is to take away oxygen from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).
“A lot of people in our world see Deval as the one who will carry the Obama legacy. Kamala has labeled herself as the female Obama, but Deval was Obama before Obama was Obama,” the fundraiser said.
Many don’t realize that Patrick’s 2006 gubernatorial win in MA was the direct precursor of The One’s POTUS win in 2008. Both campaigns were, to large extents, masterminded by David Axelrod. A full year before Obama’s run, Deval’s campaign slogan alternated between “Yes We Can” and “Together We Can”, both playing on the sensibilities and gullibilities of idealist liberal whites.
One could say both the Patrick campaign and the Obama campaign were variations of the same Magic Negro trope.
Still, a Deval POTUS run could face some serious optical hurdles.
First, for several years now, Patrick has been a Managing Director at the dastardly Bain Capital, famous for being an MSM-fueled albatross around Mitt Romney’s neck. How will St. Deval get around that embarrassment? He and the media will likely spin Patrick’s tenure at EvilCorp as being done solely for the ‘public good’, even though the same could have been said about Romney’s own philanthropic efforts.
There’s also this Willie Horton-like ‘whoops’ incident from Patrick’s past, which, in our inflamed era of hyper-racialized politics, could hurt Deval with working class whites:
The [2006] general election was very heated, described by former governor Michael Dukakis as “the dirtiest gubernatorial campaign in my memory”. Patrick faced criticism for having once written letters to the parole board describing correspondence from Benjamin LaGuer, a man convicted of a brutal eight-hour rape, as “thoughtful, insightful, eloquent, [and] humane”.
Patrick contributed $5,000 towards the DNA testing which linked LaGuer to the crime. However, once the DNA test proved LaGuer’s guilt, Patrick withdrew his support for the inmate’s release.
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The striking video to this rare Stones tune, directed by Michael Lindsay Hogg, is quite good and rather haunting. It’s as if Bergman or Antonioni were asked to direct a video for the Stones. (Among his earlier work, Hogg had directed the tonally similar video “Paperback Writer” by The Beatles.)
We see three stages of a girl’s life, symbolic of our own similar paths of mortality, whilst the Stones, at their most handsomest, are planted like incarnations of the Devil himself, just standing and watching, and not aging a minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vC8fBaDSl4
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