The always brilliant Thom Hartmann over at Raw Story(https://bit.ly/3OBrVZm) writes a distillation piece on today’s “conservative” movement aka the CNPP(Conservative Nazi Pedo Party) explaining its evolution since Eisenhower in the 1950’s to today’s dysmorphic conservatism that supports inequality based on a financial platform where government works only for the wealthy
This type of “I’ve got mine, screw you” political attitude currently has permeated all 3 levels of government and is far from what the conservative movement in the 1950’s meant which was to not radically or rapidly change society without first thinking through the consequences in detail, and then, when you do decide to make changes to the rules of society, you move forward in measured increments. Conservatively
Over decades of policies to ravage the principle that all men/women are created equal and aided by the likes of the John Birch Society, Reagan’s demand to cut social safety net programs, and Clarence Thomas’ corruption of SCOTUS, today’s conservative movement has become a fascist haven for the plutocratic wealthy class(Musk, Theil, Karp) willing to strike any corrupt deal that furthers their ends(Cheeto, Jared, Don Jr)
WE the People have slowly unconsciously witnessed the wealthy take over our country and turn it into a quagmire of corruption and graft It’s time to wake up and demand a equality and restore accountability
Liu Xiaobo. Li Qiaochu. Yaqui Wang. Shining examples to look up to while we fight to regain our democracy. Will we meet the challenges and sacrifices as they have?
In a just political world “My friend Xi” and Don King Trump would be sharing a cell in…Forgive me Jesus, Western Civilization is hanging by the skin of our teeth. The President of the United States pals around with the worlds biggest terrorists. Earths biggest mass murderer still has a skyscraper size mural in the Forbidden City and the U.S. Justice Department has banner with a two bit mobster’s grinning mug…and so many of my fellow Americans could give a ….anymore than Han supremacists murdering and imprisoning good peoples yearning to breathe free from dick tator ship. God bless you Jay for not stepping on your moral compass like so many have because they like The Dons policies and have forsaken all good things Republican. If only we the people had a loyal opposition party with the strength and intelligence of Chinese people you celebrate…whose names and faces I admit I will not remember because I cannot do anything to help them. God HELP U.S. Please take Heat Miser away and give Chinese dissidents some hope. Gotta run on. Peace through superior mental firepower
"Adams and his creative partners, realizing the significance of Nixon’s visit, took an approach . . ."
I think this really should have read, "Amy Goodman and her creative partners . . ." Goodman was responsible for the remarkably nuanced libretto, and her concern was not to exclude but to focus on what Nixon and Pat Nixon, Mao and Jiang Qing, Kissinger and Zhou Enlai thought of Mao's politics, and of themselves. The opera performed has always seemed to me like an interesting thought experiment, and although I've never been drawn to dissonant, minimalist music, Adams designed it to serve brilliantly.
I think there is dissonance of another sort in the way Americans celebrate dissidence in China. When China's first modern revolution occurred in 1911/12, its chief architect, Sun Yat-sen included "minquan" (civil rights; democratic rights) as one of its three basic planks, but advocated that the revolutionary government implement it slowly, during a period of "tutelage." The idea of "minquan" was so alien to Chinese political and social culture that it would take perhaps a generation before people understood its meaning deeply enough to value and sustain a government based on such a pillar. Chaotic political events over the years between the first revolution and the 1949 Communist Revolution did not really allow for the "tutelage" Sun envisioned, and while there may be plenty of dissatisfaction with government policies and the ineffectiveness and corruption of the Communist state, the PRC political heroes we tend to celebrate, such as Liu Xiaobo, may not represent the political vision of most people in the PRC. The late Cultural Revolution period of Maoism, which is where "Nixon in China" is set, was a particularly insane devolution of Chinese communism, one that Deng Xiaoping and his associates worked hard to dig out of. The authoritarianism of the Xi Jinping era is (to my mind) a very bad version of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" (or capitalism with Chinese characteristics, for that matter), but if there were suddenly truly free elections in China with full-fledged and well funded Western liberal candidates, I suspect the elected government in most regions would resemble the current "elected" government of the Xi regime.
Cheeto’s Corruption Of Conservatism
The always brilliant Thom Hartmann over at Raw Story(https://bit.ly/3OBrVZm) writes a distillation piece on today’s “conservative” movement aka the CNPP(Conservative Nazi Pedo Party) explaining its evolution since Eisenhower in the 1950’s to today’s dysmorphic conservatism that supports inequality based on a financial platform where government works only for the wealthy
This type of “I’ve got mine, screw you” political attitude currently has permeated all 3 levels of government and is far from what the conservative movement in the 1950’s meant which was to not radically or rapidly change society without first thinking through the consequences in detail, and then, when you do decide to make changes to the rules of society, you move forward in measured increments. Conservatively
Over decades of policies to ravage the principle that all men/women are created equal and aided by the likes of the John Birch Society, Reagan’s demand to cut social safety net programs, and Clarence Thomas’ corruption of SCOTUS, today’s conservative movement has become a fascist haven for the plutocratic wealthy class(Musk, Theil, Karp) willing to strike any corrupt deal that furthers their ends(Cheeto, Jared, Don Jr)
WE the People have slowly unconsciously witnessed the wealthy take over our country and turn it into a quagmire of corruption and graft It’s time to wake up and demand a equality and restore accountability
Liu Xiaobo. Li Qiaochu. Yaqui Wang. Shining examples to look up to while we fight to regain our democracy. Will we meet the challenges and sacrifices as they have?
In a just political world “My friend Xi” and Don King Trump would be sharing a cell in…Forgive me Jesus, Western Civilization is hanging by the skin of our teeth. The President of the United States pals around with the worlds biggest terrorists. Earths biggest mass murderer still has a skyscraper size mural in the Forbidden City and the U.S. Justice Department has banner with a two bit mobster’s grinning mug…and so many of my fellow Americans could give a ….anymore than Han supremacists murdering and imprisoning good peoples yearning to breathe free from dick tator ship. God bless you Jay for not stepping on your moral compass like so many have because they like The Dons policies and have forsaken all good things Republican. If only we the people had a loyal opposition party with the strength and intelligence of Chinese people you celebrate…whose names and faces I admit I will not remember because I cannot do anything to help them. God HELP U.S. Please take Heat Miser away and give Chinese dissidents some hope. Gotta run on. Peace through superior mental firepower
"Adams and his creative partners, realizing the significance of Nixon’s visit, took an approach . . ."
I think this really should have read, "Amy Goodman and her creative partners . . ." Goodman was responsible for the remarkably nuanced libretto, and her concern was not to exclude but to focus on what Nixon and Pat Nixon, Mao and Jiang Qing, Kissinger and Zhou Enlai thought of Mao's politics, and of themselves. The opera performed has always seemed to me like an interesting thought experiment, and although I've never been drawn to dissonant, minimalist music, Adams designed it to serve brilliantly.
I think there is dissonance of another sort in the way Americans celebrate dissidence in China. When China's first modern revolution occurred in 1911/12, its chief architect, Sun Yat-sen included "minquan" (civil rights; democratic rights) as one of its three basic planks, but advocated that the revolutionary government implement it slowly, during a period of "tutelage." The idea of "minquan" was so alien to Chinese political and social culture that it would take perhaps a generation before people understood its meaning deeply enough to value and sustain a government based on such a pillar. Chaotic political events over the years between the first revolution and the 1949 Communist Revolution did not really allow for the "tutelage" Sun envisioned, and while there may be plenty of dissatisfaction with government policies and the ineffectiveness and corruption of the Communist state, the PRC political heroes we tend to celebrate, such as Liu Xiaobo, may not represent the political vision of most people in the PRC. The late Cultural Revolution period of Maoism, which is where "Nixon in China" is set, was a particularly insane devolution of Chinese communism, one that Deng Xiaoping and his associates worked hard to dig out of. The authoritarianism of the Xi Jinping era is (to my mind) a very bad version of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" (or capitalism with Chinese characteristics, for that matter), but if there were suddenly truly free elections in China with full-fledged and well funded Western liberal candidates, I suspect the elected government in most regions would resemble the current "elected" government of the Xi regime.