Now that I have processed a while, I have changed my mind. The initial reaction I had, like many in the media and out, was how the Democrats misread the room and should have been cannier in how we ran the campaign. It is easy to fall into the trap of the horserace mentality. True, there will be much to consider about where we find ourselves in history and how to advance the liberal cause, but that is for another day. In addition to all the whinging about Biden and whether he should have retired or defended his record, the structures of the Party, messaging, whether we should tack to the middle or to the left, we now get the quadrennial scourging on how we have failed the middle class and we are now the bourgeoisie. This is the middle class that has now allowed itself to choose not just bigotry and racism but to do so with the facade of pocketbook issues. Of course, it is, and has always been, a falsity that their economic lot will be better under Republican administrations, yet th...
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Woke Liberals : Scary Black Folks 1619 Project : Slavery might have been a bit bad… Critical Race Theory : Racism might have been a bit bad … Censorship : For me but not for thee. Cancel Culture : Gen Z Censorship. Parental Freedom : Don’t make my kids learn slavery might have been bad… Indoctrination : You’re teachin’ my kids that slavery might have been bad. Grooming: You’re teachin’ my kids that discrimination might be bad … Freedom of Speech : I can too say racist bullshit. Twitter : Freedom of Speech, internet style. Age appropriate : half-past never. Florida: Southern Fried MAGA.
Opportunity vs Outcome
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Let’s accept, for the moment, that Daryanani et al. establishes what is in the abstract. Further, single mothers were more likely to engage in rejecting parenting behaviors, which predicted to a higher prevalence of adolescent externalizing disorders. … Surprisingly, rejection in single-mother families predicted to less severe anxiety symptoms in adolescents relative to two-parent families. It is likely that single mothers are not inherently inferior parents relative to cohabitating mothers; rather, their parenting practices are often compromised by a myriad of demands and stressors. Consistent with this postulate, low socioeconomic status was associated with single motherhood and negative parenting behaviors. Clinical implications and study limitations are discussed. … Unfortunately, much of the evidence suggests that single-mother families tend to be disadvantaged at systemic an...
Garbage and Gravitas
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Garbage and Gravitas Ayn Rand was a melodramatist of the moral life: the battle is between the producer and the moochers, and it must end in life or death. By Corey Robin MAY 20, 2010 S t. Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both. Many other people have thought so too. In 1998 readers responding to a Modern Library poll identified Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead as the two greatest novels of the twentieth century—surpassing Ulysses , To the Lighthouse and Invisible Man . In 1991 a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club found that with the exception of the Bible, no book has influenced more American readers than Atlas Shrugged . Ayn Rand and the World She Made By Anne C. Heller. Buy this book Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right ...