[FRIAM] oversight

[Marcus Daniels]

As far as I can tell the rhetoric of the right taps into humiliation of white lower to middle class voters, and to racists.   It isn't of any "quality" it is just that an audience exists and has a weakness for it.   Even here in the bay area, these people can be found on Nextdoor objecting to pretty much any public works projects, and any attempt to help anyone.   They have suffered, or so they think, and now they want others to suffer.   At the very least they feel entitled to see other people suffer and are incredibly envious of the incomes of Millennials who make more than they ever made and can and do buy up the properties in "their" neighborhoods.    In their minds, the great replacement happens, even here.    In my mind, the best thing is to go ahead and get it done.

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen
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On 5/20/22 08:37, Jon Zingale wrote:
> Roe vs. Wade? Why not sink into Buck vs. Bell?

Because Roe is currently being discussed. If there's anything we know about people, it's that their attention span is limited. I'm surprised Ukraine is still as much of a topic as it is.

On 5/20/22 08:26, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> 2) social services see an increased burden and observations of children in distress.  The cases of 2) could be fed from, say, citizen review boards into activist groups to make clear what is happening during election periods.  The bleeding-heart liberal skill set is good at emotional manipulation, and they should do what they are good at.

This places too much burden on "observations". The rhetoric from the activist groups will have to be steady and high quality. Personally, I haven't seen any steady, high quality rhetoric from the left in a long time. It's the low quality of that rhetoric that's resulted in the relative success of the neo-reactionary rhetoric and the exodus of erstwhile liberals into peri-right places like https://heterodoxacademy.org/ and https://academicfreedom.org/.

A perfect example of low quality rhetoric is claiming that Gorsuch and Coney-Barrett are partisan hacks. (Kavanaugh actually seems to be one. 8^D But the other 2 are a little more solidly authentic. No offense intended to hacks. I'm one ... just perhaps not as partisan.)

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