{"id":35926,"date":"2019-03-11T12:19:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T19:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35926"},"modified":"2019-03-11T12:19:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T19:19:14","slug":"open-thread-3-11-2018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/open-thread-3-11-2018-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/11\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"3\">It&#8217;s another busy day here at the CatBox.&nbsp; I have a representative of the senior agency that pays about 15% of WWWendy making her annual evaluation this morning.&nbsp; That will tie me up for at least an hour.&nbsp; I probably won&#8217;t recover from sproinging for at least a couple more days.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s tool me 2:48 (average 4:31).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-11-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UpqFaf8vQfk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/voxdotcom\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vox Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Why you still don&#8217;t understand the Green New Deal<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/UpqFaf8vQfk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree. Use this link for substance. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_New_Deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_New_Deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/03\/sociologists-destroy-the-myth-that-uneducated-white-voters-support-trump-because-of-economic-anxiety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Despite all of the disproved narratives about the \u201cwhite working class,\u201d it has been repeatedly and conclusively shown that Donald Trump in fact won the White House because of racism and nativism. But sexism was a key element in Trump\u2019s victory as well. These values, beliefs, and behaviors interact with one another. New research by University of Kansas sociologists David Smith and Eric Hanley demonstrates how a socially combustible mix of racism and sexism, in combination with anger and bullying, put the United States on a path to authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in \u201cThe Anger Games: Who Voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 Election, and Why?\u201d, which appeared in a recent issue of the journal Critical Sociology, Smith and Hanley summarize their new research:  <\/p>\n<p>We find that Trump\u2019s supporters voted for him mainly because they share his prejudices, not because they\u2019re financially stressed. It\u2019s true, as exit polls showed, that voters without four-year college degrees were likelier than average to support Trump. But millions of these voters \u2014 who are often stereotyped as \u201cthe white working class\u201d \u2014 opposed Trump because they oppose his prejudices.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reich was not hoodwinked or economically motivated. They love Trump, because they share his evil hatred. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/10\/us\/politics\/ilhan-omar-democrats-free-speech.html?emc=edit_th_190311&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=318761730311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Democrats filed into the House chamber on Thursday \u2014 depleted and punch drunk \u2014 to vote for an overstuffed resolution condemning prejudice \u2014 and end, or so they hoped, a week of infighting that vividly illustrated the perils of policing their own speech.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope this puts an end to all of this,\u201d said Representative Robin Kelly, Democrat of Illinois, moments before the measure, which condemned anti-Semitism and virtually every other form of bigotry, passed with unanimous Democratic support.  <\/p>\n<p>It almost certainly will not. The measure, which began as a rebuke to Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota and a freshman lawmaker, and ended as a catchall declaration of tolerance that did not mention her by name, seemed to satisfy no one. Ultimately, the wrenching intraparty fight left unanswered a question that transcends partisan politics: In an era of shouting and provocation, how should Congress respond when its members say hateful or hurtful things?  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We need to be careful here. Serious discussion in search of solutions may seem hurtful to some, but they are a necessary step toward progress. On the other hand, discussions intended only to hurt members of a group are hate speech. Hurtful need not be hateful, but hateful is wrong. RESIST!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0311Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another busy day here at the CatBox.&nbsp; I have a representative of the senior agency that pays about 15% of WWWendy making her annual evaluation this morning.&nbsp; That will tie me up for at least an hour.&nbsp; I probably won&#8217;t recover from sproinging for at least a couple more days. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/open-thread-3-11-2018-2\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}