Presidential Election

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Rongagin71
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Okay, we've been discussing various Dem complaints - and that is okay - but let us go back to the actual campaign where it is normal for the candidate whose convention has been in the news for days to get a "bump".
But this time around, Harris repeatedly lied (Trump does NOT want to hurt Social Security, no matter how many times various Dems say that) while, on the same day, Trump got endorsed by Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Trump and Kennedy agree that American childhood disease has been increasing and needs to be studied with particular emphasis on food and environmental factors, that too much money is going to never-ending Neocon wars, that the middle class needs to be rebuilt and protected from the sort of censorship that leads to totalitarianism.
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dermdoc said:

It is permanent victimhood. And somebody else is always to blame for you being a victim.


The parties have switched sides on everything from Russia is bad to unions. I don't recognize my party. We are left with cult followers who rationalize everything or Rhinos. Reagan conservatism, where we didnt boycott everything including beer companies, costing regular dudes on the lines their jobs, have evaporated. We need to rediscover first principles.
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nortex97 said:

Exactly. I see no popular movement to suppress non-Christian's at all, least of all among Republican christian office-seekers. The obvious answer would be that the OP is referencing Trump, whose family of course includes several prominent non-Christians (jews), and whose former staff included the first openly gay cabinet official (not exactly appealing to the stereotype of 'Christian nationalists').

This is pretty absurd, imho. If one is a christian, one should first and foremost, in my opinion, be opposed to the evil that is infanticide. Second, ending silly endless wars and the death and devastation they bring to people across the globe would be a good thing. That means rooting for a GOP loss this cycle would be…counter productive.
Unnecessary and ineffective ellipsis.
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I dunno, I mean what's wrong with that, a government that's Christian?

Christians converted emperors and kings historically. Land for the church was granted by tribal leaders, not purchased on the free market. Protection was granted from the reigning authorities, not as a result of a groundswell of opposition from the margins.

I'm not so sure Christian nationalism, as the slur goes, is all that misguided. I think the notion of church and state being separate is more anti-christian than not.
History does not paint a pretty picture in that regard. We can see Popes making alliances and calling up armies for local defense and worldwide war, we can see Orthodox patriarchs getting killed and replaced by the Emperor's puppets, we can the the Wars of the Reformation where each side took any active role in the goverments of their side and killed anyone that didn't go along. America is a different animal, so I don't think it would look like that. But just taking one step down that road leads to the question, what kind of Christian nation? Is it going to be the Christianity of Pope Francis, the Christianity of the ultra-progressive United Methodist Church, the Christianity of the Southern Baptist Convention, or the Christianity of the Pentecostals? All of these look very different.

IMHO, it's not a good goal for Christianity. We're supposed to focus on saving ourselves and the other people of the world, not accumulating worldly wealth or power. Jesus was offered the whole world on a platter and turned it down, and I can't think of a better example to follow


History people interpret how they like to craft their own narrative. My point is that Christian history is more nuanced and it spread just as much (if not more) from political power as being content to die martyrs. Ancient Christians that understood the faith well converted the emperor, kings, and clan leaders. Would you call St. Patrick unfaithful in his ministry to Ireland with how he approached it?

Seeking worldly wealth and power? You've misconstrued the point if you think that's what Christian nationalism is. Jesus turned down something the devil had no power to give. Wasn't that the point of His rebuke? How does it square that Christian's should not concern themselves with governance?

I'm less worried about 'what kind' of Christian nation. We have a lot more in common than not when it comes to governance. Perfect is the enemy of the good in this case.
On mobile and refuse to learn how to bold any particular section. Regardless, I'll remember to disregard every one of your opinions after reading that poorly constructed first sentence.
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Capybara said:

nortex97 said:

Exactly. I see no popular movement to suppress non-Christian's at all, least of all among Republican christian office-seekers. The obvious answer would be that the OP is referencing Trump, whose family of course includes several prominent non-Christians (jews), and whose former staff included the first openly gay cabinet official (not exactly appealing to the stereotype of 'Christian nationalists').

This is pretty absurd, imho. If one is a christian, one should first and foremost, in my opinion, be opposed to the evil that is infanticide. Second, ending silly endless wars and the death and devastation they bring to people across the globe would be a good thing. That means rooting for a GOP loss this cycle would be…counter productive.
Unnecessary and ineffective ellipsis.


Solid rebuttal. Sorry my parenthetical rhetoric did not meet your grammar standards.
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Sapper Redux said:

Lol. Every modern political theory uses class analysis and has since the late 19th century. Marxian analysis is baked into the modern political system. Including for conservatives.


You seem to think you are making a contentious point here. So much so you laughed about it. Out loud even. Good for you, Sapper!
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nortex97 said:

Capybara said:

nortex97 said:

Exactly. I see no popular movement to suppress non-Christian's at all, least of all among Republican christian office-seekers. The obvious answer would be that the OP is referencing Trump, whose family of course includes several prominent non-Christians (jews), and whose former staff included the first openly gay cabinet official (not exactly appealing to the stereotype of 'Christian nationalists').

This is pretty absurd, imho. If one is a christian, one should first and foremost, in my opinion, be opposed to the evil that is infanticide. Second, ending silly endless wars and the death and devastation they bring to people across the globe would be a good thing. That means rooting for a GOP loss this cycle would be…counter productive.
Unnecessary and ineffective ellipsis.


Solid rebuttal. Sorry my parenthetical rhetoric did not meet your grammar standards.
Apology not accepted. If you're going to type more than even 100 words, learn to find your voice.
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Politics causes anger because it is so involved with power - the power to make people do or don't do all sorts of things combined with the power to decide who makes lots and lots of money and who begs and starves.
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Just in case anybody forgot, Kamala is actually the daughter of an actual self identified Marxist.

I see a lot pearl clutching when the term Marxisim is brought up, but the DNC candidate for President is literally the daughter of a literal Marxist. A very prominent and well established one at that. Tenured Stanford professor and economic advisor to a nation, fwiw.

In fact, just as Modern Progressivism is the ideological child of neo Marxism and post modernism, I would imagine many modern progressives had parents who were at least closet marxists, if not out right one's like madam vice president's papa.
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Marxian analysis is baked into the modern political system. Including for conservatives.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by those two statements? And provide examples?
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Jabin said:

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Marxian analysis is baked into the modern political system. Including for conservatives.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by those two statements? And provide examples?


Milton Friedman once said, "Marx was a Monetarist." Despite not agreeing with Marx's political beliefs or conclusions about the nature of historical progress, Friedman recognized that the theory undergirding almost all of modern economic conservatism was structurally based on the same principles first identified and defined by Marx. Economics as a discipline is still working from Marx. MAGA economics, in particular, is essentially Keynesian economics with tariffs.
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Silent For Too Long said:

Just in case anybody forgot, Kamala is actually the daughter of an actual self identified Marxist.

I see a lot pearl clutching when the term Marxisim is brought up, but the DNC candidate for President is literally the daughter of a literal Marxist. A very prominent and well established one at that. Tenured Stanford professor and economic advisor to a nation, fwiw.

In fact, just as Modern Progressivism is the ideological child of neo Marxism and post modernism, I would imagine many modern progressives had parents who were at least closet marxists, if not out right one's like madam vice president's papa.


You really want to go down this road? Assume an adult woman just parrots what her father believed, particularly when he had little part in her life after she was 7? Because a very, VERY large number of extremely influential postwar conservative figures were the children of communists or once communists themselves. And if we assume kids are just carbon copies of their parents… well… Fred Trump was a known racist and slumlord.
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Sapper Redux said:

Silent For Too Long said:

Just in case anybody forgot, Kamala is actually the daughter of an actual self identified Marxist.

I see a lot pearl clutching when the term Marxisim is brought up, but the DNC candidate for President is literally the daughter of a literal Marxist. A very prominent and well established one at that. Tenured Stanford professor and economic advisor to a nation, fwiw.

In fact, just as Modern Progressivism is the ideological child of neo Marxism and post modernism, I would imagine many modern progressives had parents who were at least closet marxists, if not out right one's like madam vice president's papa.


You really want to go down this road? Assume an adult woman just parrots what her father believed, particularly when he had little part in her life after she was 7? Because a very, VERY large number of extremely influential postwar conservative figures were the children of communists or once communists themselves. And if we assume kids are just carbon copies of their parents… well… Fred Trump was a known racist and slumlord.


It's rather more enlightening she has not disavowed or distanced herself from a single word he wrote, and his invisibility in her campaigns imho. As well, the pastor who prayed at the dnc. Despicable people, imho.
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I'm sure you are a certified expert on Kamala and Donald's relationship, Sap. God knows you are an expert on everything ever.

She's been an adult for 42 years. She's been in politics for 35 years. One of her father's jobs is to advise governments on how to make their economies more Marxist.

But go ahead and try to hand wave that away with your "nu uhing." It's a really convincing argument.
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Silent For Too Long said:

I'm sure you are a certified expert on Kamala and Donald's relationship, Sap. God knows you are an expert on everything ever.

She's been an adult for 42 years. She's been in politics for 35 years. One of her father's jobs is to advise governments on how to make their economies more Marxist.

But go ahead and try to hand wave that away with your "nu uhing." It's a really convincing argument.


This entire argument of yours is an ad hominem. You don't bring out any evidence, you simply assume she MUST believe what her father believes because… genetics? He hasn't been in her life much since she was 7. But now he's the puppet master and she just blindly believes what he believes? Sans any evidence? This has all the hint of desperation that the Bill Ayers bull**** had during 08. Find something of substance.

Again, by this logic, Trump is a racist because his father, whom he was close to his entire life, including well into adulthood, was a known racist.
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nortex97 said:

Sapper Redux said:

Silent For Too Long said:

Just in case anybody forgot, Kamala is actually the daughter of an actual self identified Marxist.

I see a lot pearl clutching when the term Marxisim is brought up, but the DNC candidate for President is literally the daughter of a literal Marxist. A very prominent and well established one at that. Tenured Stanford professor and economic advisor to a nation, fwiw.

In fact, just as Modern Progressivism is the ideological child of neo Marxism and post modernism, I would imagine many modern progressives had parents who were at least closet marxists, if not out right one's like madam vice president's papa.


You really want to go down this road? Assume an adult woman just parrots what her father believed, particularly when he had little part in her life after she was 7? Because a very, VERY large number of extremely influential postwar conservative figures were the children of communists or once communists themselves. And if we assume kids are just carbon copies of their parents… well… Fred Trump was a known racist and slumlord.


It's rather more enlightening she has not disavowed or distanced herself from a single word he wrote, and his invisibility in her campaigns imho. As well, the pastor who prayed at the dnc. Despicable people, imho.
This is true. It's also enlightening that not once has Donald Trump disavowed or distanced himself from his father who was arrested while a part of a KKK riot in 1927 and was such a racist slumlord that Woody Guthrie (of "This Land is Your Land" fame) wrote a song about it. Clearly, both candidates have some daddy issues to address.
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First of all, you have 0 evidence to support the assertion he hasn't been in her life since she was 7. He was temporarily estranged from her childhood.

Second of all, the only one using terms like "carbon copy" is you. However, to suggest that her world view wasn't influenced by her father is an embarrassing amount of bull*****

Third of all, this has nothing to do with an ad hominem argument. You clearly dont understand what that means.

Let me slow this down for you. It was suggested, by a different poster that you undoubtedly starred, that it was "intellectually lazy" to bring up Marxism with regards to our current political climate. I countered that it's rather pertinent to bring up considering the DNC presidential nominee was raised by a promeninent Marxists.

Then you started screaming at the keyboard and posting nonsensical gibberish.
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Fred Trump has been dead for 25 years. Donald Harris is actively trying to make the world more Marxist as we speak.

The two things aren't even remotely comparable.
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A few minutes of Googling came up with this from National Post:
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Kamala Harris put it more bluntly in a 2003 interview, one of the few times she's talked about the man publicly. "My father is a good guy," she told SF Weekly, "but we are not close."
Don't see any reason she'd be lying about this in a 2003 interview.

Donald Harris isn't a part of her campaign. So yeah, they are comparable.
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The Social Democratic movement is an adaptation of Marxism. It's asinine to call it a "total rejection" when they share so many core ideals.

Nothing you said refutes the fact that all of the intellectual foundations of progressivism are rooted in Marxism. Critical Theory, Queer Theory, Intersectionalism, anti-capitalism are all ideals deeply rooted in Marxism. It's the memetics of Marxism adapted to the American ideal structure.

Marcuse, Foucault, Derrida, were all either outright Marxist or "critics" of Marxism in the sense that Luther was a "critic" of the Church. They never abandoned the fundamental ideals. They were all the intellectual forebears of modern progressives.

Hey . . .finally getting back to this. I was hosting extended family and could not back to TexAgs,

So to your points and my views:

Social Democracy being an extension rather than rejection of Marxism - I definitely mistyped with the "total: moniker and you are correct that social democracy theory was in its first iterations a revision and evolution of leftist theory rather than a full scale rejection. I was enjoying some good red wine when I typed that and now find that comment faulty.

That being said, Social Democrats did out of the gates undercut the most potent and central of Marxist belief, namely the purpose of of class struggle, the technocratic and bureaucratic control of the economy by a few government officials. That was the fist iteration in the

You are totally wrong in saying that the intellectual foundations of progressivism is rooted in


1) Queer Theory - Started in the 1990s
2) Intersectionalism - Started in the 1990s
3) Critical Theory - Really started in the 1940s

Progressivsim crept up a full 100 years prior to most the very new catchwords you mention here.


Marcuse was I guess an intellectual fountainhead of the new left movement, but he was also a lifelong critic of Marxism as unworkable, repressive, and failed system. he liked some of the core material ,mostly the worry over the negative impact of capitalism on general fairness and equality of outcomes. His critical theory stuff was moving beyond the whole Marxist idea of just killing the capitalists.

Foucalt- Who knows with that guy but he spent most of his intellectual life condeming Marxism so not sure of your point

I never understood Derida . . .he bounced all over the place.

I guess you could say that modern day Methodism had Jewish roots, but no one here would think they were the same thing.

Think you are projecting and reaching here,
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A much more accurate analogy would be to suggest Methodism is a form of Christianity. Which it is. Moder Progressivism is a a derivative form of Marxism.

You are conflating Modern Progressivism with older movements that used the term progressive. The aforementioned terms are the bedrock of Modern Progressives. The fact that 19th century progressives didn't use those terms is 100% irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

And, again, Marcuse was a neo marxist. That's a well established fact. Luther criticizing the Church didn't magically make him not a Christian. I'm not sure how more plain I can explain that to you.

What exactly am I projecting?
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Silent For Too Long said:

First of all, you have 0 evidence to support the assertion he hasn't been in her life since she was 7. He was temporarily estranged from her childhood.

Second of all, the only one using terms like "carbon copy" is you. However, to suggest that her world view wasn't influenced by her father is an embarrassing amount of bull*****

Third of all, this has nothing to do with an ad hominem argument. You clearly dont understand what that means.

Let me slow this down for you. It was suggested, by a different poster that you undoubtedly starred, that it was "intellectually lazy" to bring up Marxism with regards to our current political climate. I countered that it's rather pertinent to bring up considering the DNC presidential nominee was raised by a promeninent Marxists.

Then you started screaming at the keyboard and posting nonsensical gibberish.


"Screaming at the keyboard"? You have a much more interesting vision of my life than I do. It is intellectually lazy to bring up Marxism. There's no evidence at all that Harris is somehow a Marxist. Her father hasn't been in her life in any kind of consistent basis since she was 7 and you've shown no evidence to suggest otherwise. Even if he were, you've shown no evidence that she adopted his theoretical or ideological reasoning aside from the fact that she's a progressive and you seem to assume progressive is a synonym for Trotskyist.
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What exactly am I projecting?

Projecting on the too linear/too straight connection from original Marxism to current American Progressivism.

It is like comparing New Labour policies in the UK to the legitimate old school reds that occupied that platform. Just like the fall of the true Marxist left in the UK under Thatcher, The left of the US was far more potent in its quasi-nationalization intentions in the 60s and 70s. They used labor unions as a sort of end run for that where political parties in Europe gave the whole monte.

Something broke in the 80s and 90s, and the progressive platform shifted to heavy on social issues but rather pro-market in economic stances. That is the social democratic model.

I say this viewing the true roots of American progressivism being the dawn of the 20th Century with folks like Henry George and James Sullicvan in reaction to the rapid industrialization of that era.
Some made sense:

1) Possibly the only legitimate application of trust busting
2) Legitimate focus on political corruption

obviously lots of bad ideas came out of it as well. . . . . the messsianic belief in Ivy League technorats turning dials to manage things, the dawn of sh^t journalism weaponzing mass market media to attack business, etc.

But even Teddy Roosevelt was pretty chummy with big money back then,
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Sapper Redux said:

Silent For Too Long said:

First of all, you have 0 evidence to support the assertion he hasn't been in her life since she was 7. He was temporarily estranged from her childhood.

Second of all, the only one using terms like "carbon copy" is you. However, to suggest that her world view wasn't influenced by her father is an embarrassing amount of bull*****

Third of all, this has nothing to do with an ad hominem argument. You clearly dont understand what that means.

Let me slow this down for you. It was suggested, by a different poster that you undoubtedly starred, that it was "intellectually lazy" to bring up Marxism with regards to our current political climate. I countered that it's rather pertinent to bring up considering the DNC presidential nominee was raised by a promeninent Marxists.

Then you started screaming at the keyboard and posting nonsensical gibberish.


"Screaming at the keyboard"? You have a much more interesting vision of my life than I do. It is intellectually lazy to bring up Marxism. There's no evidence at all that Harris is somehow a Marxist. Her father hasn't been in her life in any kind of consistent basis since she was 7 and you've shown no evidence to suggest otherwise. Even if he were, you've shown no evidence that she adopted his theoretical or ideological reasoning aside from the fact that she's a progressive and you seem to assume progressive is a synonym for Trotskyist.


You have terrible tendency to completely misrepresent people in an attempt to make a point.

The modern progressive movement in American is strongly influenced by Marxism. Period. Arguing otherwise is merely displaying your ignorance.

Now, you can attempt to argue the degree of it's influence, but to completely ignore the reality is just plain obtuse. The venn diagram of ideals between the two has a **** load of overlap.


The fact that the DNC nominee was literally raised by a Marxist and a woman who, at the very least, was married to a Marxist is just the icing on the cake.

To pretend that a politically inclined and ambitious woman like Kamala wasn't influenced by her extremely prestigious father is completely delusional.

I can't possibly think of a reason why she would want to distance herself publicly from her devout Marxist father as she climbed the political ladder. It is quiet beyond my comprehension.
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I get the feeling that we likely agree on thing more then we disagree, but on this issue I think you are underselling that Marxian undertones of the modern progressive movement.

Critical Theory, which is massively influential with modern progressives, was literally started by Marxists. This is a historic fact.

Intersectionliaty and Queer Theory can be directly traced to Marcuse. Again, this is 100% fact if you are willing to go down that rabbit hole. If you peruse through the lexicon with notions like safe spaces and micro aggressions you can trace them directly to Marcusian disciples.

I don't think anyone is arguing against the notion that progressives represent the far left in American politics today. Just on its surface, is it really that preposterous to suggest the far left of today was heavily influenced by the far left of yesterday? Is that really that hard of a concept for people to wrap their heads around?


It seems pretty damn obvious to me.
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Silent For Too Long said:

Sapper Redux said:

Silent For Too Long said:

First of all, you have 0 evidence to support the assertion he hasn't been in her life since she was 7. He was temporarily estranged from her childhood.

Second of all, the only one using terms like "carbon copy" is you. However, to suggest that her world view wasn't influenced by her father is an embarrassing amount of bull*****

Third of all, this has nothing to do with an ad hominem argument. You clearly dont understand what that means.

Let me slow this down for you. It was suggested, by a different poster that you undoubtedly starred, that it was "intellectually lazy" to bring up Marxism with regards to our current political climate. I countered that it's rather pertinent to bring up considering the DNC presidential nominee was raised by a promeninent Marxists.

Then you started screaming at the keyboard and posting nonsensical gibberish.


"Screaming at the keyboard"? You have a much more interesting vision of my life than I do. It is intellectually lazy to bring up Marxism. There's no evidence at all that Harris is somehow a Marxist. Her father hasn't been in her life in any kind of consistent basis since she was 7 and you've shown no evidence to suggest otherwise. Even if he were, you've shown no evidence that she adopted his theoretical or ideological reasoning aside from the fact that she's a progressive and you seem to assume progressive is a synonym for Trotskyist.


You have terrible tendency to completely misrepresent people in an attempt to make a point.

The modern progressive movement in American is strongly influenced by Marxism. Period. Arguing otherwise is merely displaying your ignorance.

Now, you can attempt to argue the degree of it's influence, but to completely ignore the reality is just plain obtuse. The venn diagram of ideals between the two has a **** load of overlap.


The fact that the DNC nominee was literally raised by a Marxist and a woman who, at the very least, was married to a Marxist is just the icing on the cake.

To pretend that a politically inclined and ambitious woman like Kamala wasn't influenced by her extremely prestigious father is completely delusional.

I can't possibly think of a reason why she would want to distance herself publicly from her devout Marxist father as she climbed the political ladder. It is quiet beyond my comprehension.


You've yet to show a single ounce of proof aside from, "Her dad, whom she has not had a relationship with since she was 7, is a Marxist, therefore she MUST be deeply sympathetic to Marxism." And again, this EXACT SAME LOGIC means Donald Trump is a racist and every conservative in the postwar era who came from a leftist background (which is almost every big player outside of Buckley) was actually a Marxist bringing Marxism into conservatism. This is all bull**** all the way down because in your mind, an American progressive MUST secretly be a communist.
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Even if you can show that some particular political theory or philosophy was heavily influenced by Marxism, my question is "So what?" Is the argument that because its origin was (at least partially) Marxist it should be immediately rejected without discussion of its own merits?

Seems an odd argument to make. I can think of a bunch of other political topics with unpleasant origins that conservatives still embrace. Take the whole school vouchers topic, for instance. That idea was a direct result of segregation. Should vouchers today all be dismissed as segregationist?

Or if we were talking about religion, the Southern Baptist Church has origins closely rooted in supporting slavery. Should that matter now?

So what's the point you're really trying to make here?
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If you need someone to explain to you why being heavily influenced by Marxism is bad you are completely hopeless.

Read some history.
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Sapper Redux said:

Silent For Too Long said:

Sapper Redux said:

Silent For Too Long said:

First of all, you have 0 evidence to support the assertion he hasn't been in her life since she was 7. He was temporarily estranged from her childhood.

Second of all, the only one using terms like "carbon copy" is you. However, to suggest that her world view wasn't influenced by her father is an embarrassing amount of bull*****

Third of all, this has nothing to do with an ad hominem argument. You clearly dont understand what that means.

Let me slow this down for you. It was suggested, by a different poster that you undoubtedly starred, that it was "intellectually lazy" to bring up Marxism with regards to our current political climate. I countered that it's rather pertinent to bring up considering the DNC presidential nominee was raised by a promeninent Marxists.

Then you started screaming at the keyboard and posting nonsensical gibberish.


"Screaming at the keyboard"? You have a much more interesting vision of my life than I do. It is intellectually lazy to bring up Marxism. There's no evidence at all that Harris is somehow a Marxist. Her father hasn't been in her life in any kind of consistent basis since she was 7 and you've shown no evidence to suggest otherwise. Even if he were, you've shown no evidence that she adopted his theoretical or ideological reasoning aside from the fact that she's a progressive and you seem to assume progressive is a synonym for Trotskyist.


You have terrible tendency to completely misrepresent people in an attempt to make a point.

The modern progressive movement in American is strongly influenced by Marxism. Period. Arguing otherwise is merely displaying your ignorance.

Now, you can attempt to argue the degree of it's influence, but to completely ignore the reality is just plain obtuse. The venn diagram of ideals between the two has a **** load of overlap.


The fact that the DNC nominee was literally raised by a Marxist and a woman who, at the very least, was married to a Marxist is just the icing on the cake.

To pretend that a politically inclined and ambitious woman like Kamala wasn't influenced by her extremely prestigious father is completely delusional.

I can't possibly think of a reason why she would want to distance herself publicly from her devout Marxist father as she climbed the political ladder. It is quiet beyond my comprehension.


You've yet to show a single ounce of proof aside from, "Her dad, whom she has not had a relationship with since she was 7, is a Marxist, therefore she MUST be deeply sympathetic to Marxism." And again, this EXACT SAME LOGIC means Donald Trump is a racist and every conservative in the postwar era who came from a leftist background (which is almost every big player outside of Buckley) was actually a Marxist bringing Marxism into conservatism. This is all bull**** all the way down because in your mind, an American progressive MUST secretly be a communist.


Either your reading comprehension is terrible or you have the intellectual honesty of a used car salesmen

You're not arguing against anything I'm actually saying. So I'm not going to waste my time with you anymore as you beat away at strawmen.
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I've read everything you've written. You've never offered a single piece of evidence. Just blind assertion after blind assertion. Of course you're choosing to walk away without providing evidence.
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Silent For Too Long said:

I get the feeling that we likely agree on thing more then we disagree, but on this issue I think you are underselling that Marxian undertones of the modern progressive movement.

Critical Theory, which is massively influential with modern progressives, was literally started by Marxists. This is a historic fact.

Intersectionliaty and Queer Theory can be directly traced to Marcuse. Again, this is 100% fact if you are willing to go down that rabbit hole. If you peruse through the lexicon with notions like safe spaces and micro aggressions you can trace them directly to Marcusian disciples.

I don't think anyone is arguing against the notion that progressives represent the far left in American politics today. Just on its surface, is it really that preposterous to suggest the far left of today was heavily influenced by the far left of yesterday? Is that really that hard of a concept for people to wrap their heads around?


It seems pretty damn obvious to me.


Do you think socialists and communists don't exist? Do you not understand how influential Marx has been across multiple academic disciplines? You can use principles of historical materialism and class analysis and theory without subscribing to the political claims of a classless society, etc.
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I think you defended your post enough, and enough is enough.
Sometimes people just have to agree to disagree.

As I posted earlier, I don't think Harris is a Communist,
but I do think she meets the Republican definition of Far Left.
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Rongagin71 said:

I think you defended your post enough, and enough is enough.
Sometimes people just have to agree to disagree.

As I posted earlier, I don't think Harris is a Communist,
but I do think she meets the Republican definition of Far Left.
Agree. And nobody is going to change their mind.

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94chem
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Wow. You go away for 17 days, and you get a reading assignment. Then you realize it's the same assignment you've already had...a million times. And then you see if the rice is finished cooking yet...
94chem,
That, sir, was the greatest post in the history of TexAgs. I salute you. -- Dough
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AG
The hate shall set them free.

Yes, she supports Marxist policies, though I doubt she is actually intelligent enough to verbalize her deep political theory beliefs if she were suddenly prone/allowed to expound publicly on them (hint, that won't happen before the election, if ever, it's all a secret):
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We have more single military-age illegal males in our Country than the active duty strength of our US Army. Definitely more than our US Marine Corps, which is at World War I levels.

We have lost 250K Americans to fentanyl poisoning in the past three and a half years. During the Vietnam War, we lost 58K, and during the Korean War, we lost 37K.

Yes, people are struggling to buy food, pay rent, buy a house, and put gas in their cars. Those are all results of the policies of the Biden-HARRIS administration. When the Biden-HARRIS administration took office, the inflation rate was 1.4%, and the GDP was near 6%. The new Boss, Kamala, wants to institute government food commodity price and rent controls. That's just an old tactic from the Marxist playbook that has never worked.

The Democrats talked a lot about women's reproductive rights, something I have yet to find in the U.S. Constitution. But what they are advocating for is infanticide, which Tim Walz has already instituted in Minnesota. Barack Hussein Obama, the one who promoted this idea as a State Senator and asserted that he would not punish his daughters with having a baby…invoked Republican President Abraham Lincoln, referring to the "better Angels of our nature."
Marxists have always argued about what Marxism is, and who is a real Marxist. Ultimately, this is still a decent summary, imho,
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Marx considered recurring class conflicts as the driving force of human history as such conflicts have manifested as distinct transitional stages of development in Western Europe. Accordingly, Marx designated human history as encompassing four stages of development in relations of production:

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  • Primitive communism: cooperative tribal societies.
  • Slave society: development of tribal to city-state in which aristocracy is born.
  • Feudalism: aristocrats are the ruling class, while merchants evolve into the bourgeoisie.
  • Capitalism: capitalists are the ruling class who create and employ the proletariat.
  • [/ol]While historical materialism has been referred to as a materialist theory of history, Marx did not claim to have produced a master key to history and that the materialist conception of history is not "an historico-philosophic theory of the marche generale, imposed by fate upon every people, whatever the historic circumstances in which it finds itself."
    Kamala clearly wants to move past our free capitalistic economy and free speech, within a constitutional republic.

    Her advocacy/championship for open borders, abolishing the police, equity in outcomes, population reduction, destruction of social norms/structures, and a generally 'weird' at best personal theology (check out her radical, anti-American pastor she had speak at the DNC) evoke radical left philosophies more than anything else. This is supported by her…father's political background yes (even if they're 'not close') and her public utterances consistently (even if muddled/unclear/drunk etc).
     
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