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Post by jdredd on Jan 13, 2017 18:11:33 GMT -5
Here is more from the above article:
"Today, the dilemma has been sharpened by a further shift, the rise of the new cultural divide that on another level is also cutting across the traditional social democratic base and will, in time, become even more important than the fading distinction between left and right.
This rift probably always existed, but it has been highlighted by voters’ growing preoccupation with migration and ethnic change, trends that were celebrated in Hornsey but loathed in Doncaster. Against the backdrop of social democracy’s fragmenting coalition, the divide over identity and values is bringing once apathetic whites back to politics. New research has found that one reason for the Brexit camp’s victory was its success in mobilizing politically disengaged, working-class whites who did not identify with any party and may not have voted since Margaret Thatcher’s era.
In defiance of Mr. Corbyn’s principles, these voters saw an opportunity to vent anger over their sense of being neglected and their opposition to ethnic change. In 70 percent of Labour seats, they helped to make Brexit a majority view.
Voters like those in Doncaster now reject social democracy because social democrats failed to recognize what the populists did: that left-behind whites are economically protectionist and socially conservative; that they are deeply anxious about economic disadvantage and threats to their identity, values and ways of life. When social democrats tried to respond, they appealed halfheartedly to economic protectionism, while ignoring these voters’ identity politics altogether or clinging to a liberal commitment to open borders. And none of this was communicated in terms that made sense to working-class voters."
"Since the Labour Party itself is internally divided, with some members of Parliament calling for controlled immigration while their leader doubles down on a policy of open borders, its prospects for repairing its fractured electoral coalition seem remote. Social democracy faced crises and defeats aplenty in the past, but its future was never in doubt. Labour now raises that doubt."
The Democrats have the same dilemma. Will they join the closed borders crowd like they jumped on the Cold War bandwagon in the 50's? I will be watching from the sidelines only, thankfully.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 7, 2017 2:47:56 GMT -5
As I've said before, Not My Problemism is not a admirable trait. But it is just so tempting. Why should I care that a moron is in the WH? I'll get by for the short time I have left on this crappy planet. As for everyone else, I've been waiting and waiting for the people to wake up but it just doesn't look like it's going to happen. The human race will just sleepwalk into disaster. Maybe that's the way it's always been. Not my problem.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 28, 2017 2:59:54 GMT -5
Wake me when this sexual harassment frenzy blows over.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 19, 2018 11:21:44 GMT -5
www.latimes.com/nation/la-fg-na-keystone-nebraska-20180118-story.html"TransCanada’s announcement, after the company’s many years of trying to overcome financial, political and environmental barriers, seemed specifically aimed at informing financial markets and Gulf Coast refineries. Big banks, among them JPMorgan Chase and Co., which is cautiously evaluating the pipeline, would be expected to help fund the project. Big Texas refineries are where the 830,000 barrels of oil the pipeline transports daily would end up. Late last year, in a conference call with investors, TransCanada Chief Executive Russ Girling said the company needed to secure commitments to transport 500,000 barrels of oil a day to start construction. In Thursday’s announcement, TransCanada said it was successful in “securing approximately 500,000 barrels per day of firm, 20-year commitments. Interest in the project remains strong.” "Over the past 12 months, the Keystone XL project has achieved several milestones that move us significantly closer to constructing this critical energy infrastructure for North America," said Girling, adding a note of appreciation to Trump and his administration “for their continued support.” Among the oil shippers that have made their transport commitments public is Alberta, Canada. The provincial government promised TransCanada it would rely on the Keystone XL pipeline to transport 50,000 barrels of oil daily for 20 years."
Canadian dirtbags are on the verge of starting the Keystone pipeline. Sorry, Midwestern tribes, greedy white men are going to make you bend over again. But what do I care? I get almost free gas and it's the dufuses of the Midwest and Gulf Coast that have to pay the price. Plus, more oil from rotten Canada makes it less likely that new drilling will begin off the California coast. And it's the dumbass Millennials that will have to live with it if they do. The greedy always depend on the apathy of the masses to take what they want.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 3, 2018 3:26:54 GMT -5
So I was talking to one of my lib friends, and was shocked that I wasn't concerned about climate change. Why should I be? Is climate change going to make a big difference in MY life in the next 30 years, which is about the maximum I could live? I'm more worried about getting Alzheimer's at this point. In fact, I'm more worried about bad music in restaurants.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 3, 2018 11:51:43 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/oil-drilling-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"FAIRBANKS, Alaska — It is the last great stretch of nothingness in the United States, a vast landscape of mosses, sedges and shrubs that is home to migrating caribou and the winter dens of polar bears. Aside from a Native village at its northern tip, civilization has not dented its 19 million acres, an area the size of South Carolina. There are no roads and no visitors beyond the occasional hunter and backpacker. But the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a federally protected place of austere beauty that during a recent flyover was painted white by heavy snowfall — is on the cusp of major change. The biggest untapped onshore trove of oil in North America is believed to lie beneath the refuge’s coastal plain along the Beaufort Sea. For more than a generation, opposition to drilling has left the refuge largely unscathed, but now the Trump administration, working with Republicans in Congress and an influential and wealthy Alaska Native corporation, is clearing the way for oil exploration along the coast." I have a love/hate relationship with Not My Problemism. On one hand I think it's morally questionable, but on the other hand it leaves me unworried about the future. NMP is in tune with our "Every Man for Himself" ethos of America and maybe human kind in general. Isn't that why Communism failed? So why should I care what happens in Alaska (someplace I'll never go)? And the brain dead Millennials don't give a fart either, or there would be guillotines being put up in Washington. OK, not literally.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 3, 2019 2:52:35 GMT -5
Desperate times call for desperate actions. When it seems like the bad guys are winning daily, sometimes the only way to protect your sanity is just not to care.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 12, 2019 2:36:16 GMT -5
Six years since I started this thread. I'm six years older, and lot more of things have become "Not my problem". Isn't old age awesome?
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Post by jdredd on Jan 26, 2020 23:13:31 GMT -5
This week I'm feeling totally apathetic. Impeachment? Who gives a crap. Trump has already proven a lunatic can be President, so what difference does 2020 make?
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Post by jdredd on Feb 4, 2020 2:25:35 GMT -5
So what is my problem? I'm an old old old old white guy stuck in the past. Which is probably why most of my recent history reading has been the what, how, and why of the Vietnam War. Middle East wars and the rise of China? Not my problem. It does amuse me that geezers like Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden continue to plow ahead like they are 40, but I suppose their oversized politician egos make them do it. I see where time may be catching up to Rush Limbaugh, though, despite his huge ego.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 7, 2020 3:13:12 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/climate/trump-grand-staircase-monument.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to allow mining and energy drilling on nearly a million acres of land in southern Utah that had once been protected as part of a major national monument. The Interior Department’s release of a formal land-use blueprint for the approximately 861,974 acres of land will allow oil, gas and coal companies to complete the legal process for leasing mines and wells on land that had once been part of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, established by President Bill Clinton. In December 2017, President Trump cut the monument’s acreage about in half, aiming to open the newly unprotected land for drilling and development. At the same time, he removed about a million acres from another Utah monument, Bears Ears. Together, the moves were the largest rollback of public lands protection in United States history." I was in the Escalante area many years ago. Now, of course, it's in a Trump state so I avoid it, and will not be around to see it trashed.
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Post by jdredd on May 27, 2021 0:55:00 GMT -5
I suspect my posting may be lagging because I'm an old guy, and we are susceptible to chronic Not My Problemism. Biden backs new drilling in Alaska despite climate change? Not my problem. Israelis and Palestinians fighting? NMP. China? NMP. About so much, why would I care?
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Post by jdredd on May 8, 2023 22:53:32 GMT -5
A year since my last post in this thread. Time to add to the merde that’s not my problem. Immigration? Not my problem. Homeless? Not my problem. War against trans people? NMP. Of course, war in Ukraine or Taiwan could be a big problem. A Really big problem.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 27, 2023 9:42:56 GMT -5
Changed the title of this thread. “Problemism” is a tired made up word. Instead, I’ll call it the phrase I’m using over and over again.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 29, 2023 23:07:15 GMT -5
With the affirmative action gone, how are colleges going to select students? Frankly, I don’t care, like I don’t care about trans people in sports.
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