11/11 "Once upon a time, “Bleeding Kansas” was a warning to America — harbinger of a civil war to come. It doesn’t have to be that way this time around. But we won’t succeed until we’re clear-eyed that nearly half of Americans hate who we’ve become, hate democracy when they no longer can win, and will embrace violence to get the results they can’t get at the ballot box."
Please read the entire column.
#Fascism #Republicans
"To paraphrase political writer Thomas Frank, ‘every culture war in recent history has been a stealth class war.’ If the political and oligarch classes lived in the same country that the rest of us do, they would know this. But class divisions define the ‘American’ experience. A different class means a different experience."
#RobUrie, 2023
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/04/fascism-is-the-western-answer-to-class-struggle/
#CultureWars #ClassWar #US #oligarchy
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