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Post by jdredd on Sept 10, 2021 14:15:41 GMT -5
Still asking this question. I bring it up because David Brooks in the NYT said today that dictators around the world are using religion to increase their power, even Xi and Putin, with Xi using “traditionalism”. And here in the USA, SCOTUS is certainly more worried about pushing their religious agenda than thinking about class. Who is most hurt when abortion is banned? The poor.
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Post by jdredd on May 7, 2022 4:16:38 GMT -5
So is America foundering on class lines or religious lines? For one thing, the working class that is moving to the right is also the most religious class. I suspect Nationalism has both a class and a religion aspect.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 27, 2022 20:59:57 GMT -5
So the SC has taken the religious war up to a whole new level. Plus, it’s the lower classes who will suffer the most, as the affluent will still have access to abortions. Yet the working class is still voting Republican. Does their lack of education making the difference? Or is it just culture? Maybe a combination.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 8, 2023 12:55:44 GMT -5
I continue to attempt to categorize wars for no other reason than the human need to categorize. I’ve added nationalist wars to religious and class wars in this thread. Of course, most wars are a mix of these categories, and usually a generalization. The Ukraine war seems a cut and dried Nationalist war. The Spanish Civil War, still a thing for ancient leftists like myself, looks like it was a class war to me, one of the few. Religious wars are continually happening, such as the Israel vs. Palestinians. Nationalism seems to follow religion in that case, and probably many others. Vietnam could be a mix of all three.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 11, 2023 2:41:42 GMT -5
I’m pretty much MIA on what’s going on in Israel and Gaza. I have nothing to contribute to the already existing noise.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 21, 2023 1:20:19 GMT -5
At one time I was a lot more sympathetic to Palestinian Nationalism, but now I have as much disgust for it as I have for Jewish Nationalism. I don’t even care for Irish Nationalism anymore. Alll Nationalism sucks. Won’t be my problem eventually though, as I continually repeat. But as I speculate on what will go down after I am gone I default to my newest obsession, the AI takeover of humanity. And technology will destroy borders IMHO.
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