This is part of the rhetoric that pushed people towards Trump.
Instead of asking why they didn't consider voting Democrat or why Trump was a consideration you respond with the equivalent of "well maybe you're not an intellectual"
I've seen a trend of Democrats resorting to attacking anyone that has different views than they do instead of taking the time to understand.
It does nothing to bridge the gap and bring people to your side. The opposing view still exists without being challenged. I would imagine it just pushes some people into an echo chamber of their own.
You respond with the equivalent of "well maybe you're not an intellectual".
That isn't what they said. They said that the PhD, by itself, isn't sufficient evidence of intellectualism.
Which is a perfectly natural reaction to have to anyone who, like the commenter being responded to, holds up their PhD as a defense of their intellectual prowess.
I really don't believe this is just a trend in Democrats; Republicans aren't innocent of this either. They'll resort to the overused labels of "socialist," "woke," or "un-American" for anyone with progressive views.
The whole system is just so polarized that both sides absolutely despise each other, and so both side dehumanize the other. I don't see this ever improving, it's just a shit show where both sides blindfold themselves to opposing ideas and fling as much of it as they can.
This is my point exactly. Independent of ones intelligence, it stands that someone with a phd isn't exactly anti-intellectualism (which is what the parent post was about, but it seems many people missed)
>And the rise of anti intelllectualism in the USA continues to rise.
I already responded about Gaza in the other comment, but can you explain more about the globalization point? I'm assuming you think Trump will improve the situation, can you explain your reasoning there? I do think the CHIPs act was a step in the right direction to reduce US dependence on foreign nations.
Me too. It was very hard to give someone (Harris) my vote when she was at best complicit in, and at worst aiding a genocide. But Trump said Netanyahu was doing a very good job and he has serious support from the most batshit insane people in AIPAC. Trump actually said they need to finish the job.
Trump is not anti-intervention abroad as matter of policy, which I could support. Trump is anti-intervention (pull funding for Ukraine) when it helps his team (Russia) and pro-intervention when it helps his buddies (Miriam Adelson and her zionist ilk). I do think Trump will end the war in gaza, but it will be because Israel exterminates the remaining inhabitants and annexes it and the west bank. Mark my words. There will be no consequences for them doing so, because they have Trump and the US by the balls.
And, I agree with you on the second point, that the US would be better off with stronger manufacturing. There was a lot of good stuff in the inflation reduction act and the CHIPS act. At least domestically, Biden wasn't the disaster that he was wrt foreign policy. But again, it seems like Trump's inability to stand for anything is going to cause issues. We'll get tariffs but those are a pretty blunt instrument that is going to decimate American manufacturing while it gets up to speed.
It's wild that we agree on the direction of the country yet come to such different conclusions. How does this happen?
Biden has been meddling in Ukraine since the Maidan back in '14. He was basically in charge of the country after Maidan under Obama. Not enough has been written about this, but there's enough including a French documentary released back in 2018 or 2019.
I have friends from the "wrong side" of Ukraine and their family has been shelled by Kiev since Maidan.
As to Gaza, I see Trump and Kamala tied. I have to project Biden's admin onto her because otherwise she is completely devoid of content to judge her with. And this admin's record is that of Bibi bandolier.
So on the bloodshed in Gaza they're tied. On the blood spilt in Ukraine Trump's ahead. Advantage Trump.
Which leads me to Dr. Stein. A courageous Jewish woman who has the backbone to stand up to Bibi.
EDIT: if you want to know more about it Stephen F Cohen, a lifelong liberal married to the editor of "The Nation" wrote a book about it "War with Russia?". It came out in '19 based on his weekly interviews by John Batchelor. Prof. Cohen died in '20 ('21?)
It's not a tie for Gaza. Trump is the one who provoked and moved the US embassy to Jerusalem. With his SIL being jewish, and his love for authoritarian regime like Bibi's - in what world do you think he gives a flying F about Palestinians? The left disappointed us for Gaza, but Trump will be much worse.
With regards to Ukraine - how do you judge the accuracy of the French documentary you watched? Who financed it?
Even in a far fetched scenario where you believe Putin felt threaten with NATO closer to his borders - does that suddenly make it ok for him to invade a sovereign state? Especially given they made an agreement to respect their territory in exchange for Ukraine giving up their nukes?
Oh right - Russia's word means sh!t.
PS: Stein is fully in Putin's pocket. Don't buy the Green Party BS who only exists for a few months every 4 years.
It is all about NATO expansion into Ukraine and entirely avoidable. After hot debate, NATO declared that Ukraine would eventually become part of NATO in 2014. This led to Russia taking Crimea to send a message.
NATO funded the expansion and upgrade of Ukrainian army for the next 6 years, and then reaffirmed the Ukraine would become a member in 2020, leading to the boarder buildup. Russia demanded Biden to disavow membership or face invasion, and Biden refused.
From the Biden administration perspective it was a win win situation. Ukraine falls and NATO support grows. Russia fails, and Russia is weaker.
> It is all about NATO expansion into Ukraine and entirely avoidable.
No, its not.
> After hot debate, NATO declared that Ukraine would eventually become part of NATO in 2014. This led to Russia taking Crimea to send a message.
That’s a very nice theory, except it has nothing to do with the facts. The declaration that Ukraine would “eventually” become part of NATO was not made in 2014, it was made at the 2008 NATO Summit in Bucharest when NATO also bowed to Russian pressure and declined to offer Ukraine and George Membership Action Plans to serve as near-term on-ramps to membership. After that:
1. In 2010 Ukraine adopted a law prohibiting joining any military bloc, abandoning efforts to join NATO
2. Russia invades Crimea in March 2014
3. Russia invades eastern Ukraine in August 2014
4. In response to (2) and (3), Ukraine’s government in 2014 announced it would seek to have the non-bloc status law repealed and restart efforts to join NATO
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n. At the NATO Brussels Summit in 2021, while again not granting Ukraine a MAP, NATO “recalled” the 2008 statement that Ukraine would eventually be a member.
After hot debate, NATO declared that Ukraine would eventually become part of NATO in 2014.
It did no such thing. NATO formally rejected Ukraine's membership application in 2008. And there it has sat, in the doghouse, ever since.
This led to Russia taking Crimea to send a message.
Russia's regime invaded the Crimea and Donbas on the 2014 on its own initiative, out of its own ideological motivations; nothing "led" it to take that action.
Some people really loath Biden (me), the Democrats and/or Harris.