{"id":48646,"date":"2022-07-25T06:54:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T13:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=48646"},"modified":"2022-07-24T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T00:00:07","slug":"open-thread-7-25-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/25\/open-thread-7-25-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread 7\/25\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Despite not having slept all that well, I got the blog posts up and sent the weekly email, but I didn’t do much else. An unexpected but very welcom Sound Off!<\/a> did go up before the end of the day – don’t miss it.<\/p>\n

Cartoon –<\/p>\n

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Short Takes –<\/p>\n

Psyche (via Aeon) – The power of Langston Hughes\u2019s \u2018melancholy citizenship\u2019<\/a>
\nQuote – Hughes calls the people \u2018humble, hungry, mean \u2026 despite the dream\u2019. Whether one is \u2018the poor white, fooled and pushed apart\u2019 or \u2018the Negro bearing slavery\u2019s scars\u2019, \u2018the red man driven from the land\u2019 or \u2018the immigrant clutching the hope I seek\u2019, all must live in the space between abstract ideals and the bitter world. To create a world better than the one into which we are born, Hughes urges victims of colonisation and slavery to find ways to discover common ground with beneficiaries of past injustices.
\nClick through for full idea.<\/a> Poetry is not scary. It’s mostly the expressions of simple truths in unexpected ways that make people see them as new, even if thet’re actually very old.<\/p>\n

Letters From An American – July 23, 2022<\/a>
\nQuote – Rising autocrats have declared democracy obsolete. They argue that popular government is too slow to respond to the rapid pace of the modern world, or that liberal democracy\u2019s focus on individual rights undermines the traditional values that hold societies together, values like religion and ethnic or racial similarities. Hungarian president Viktor Orb\u00e1n, whom the radical right supports so enthusiastically that he is speaking on August 4 in Texas at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), has called for replacing liberal democracy with \u201cilliberal democracy\u201d or \u201cChristian democracy,\u201d which will explicitly not treat everyone equally and will rest power in a single political party.
\nClick through for full letter<\/a>. Richardson is not being alarmist. She makes it pellucidly clear what we are up against. This needs to be read or heard by every American, particularly every American who is not already deeply aware of politics.<\/p>\n

Food For Thought
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