.@NathanJRobinson's writing continues to be invaluable:https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/07/politics-is-a-contest-of-domination …
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It's the opposite of an autocratic request to insist the Dem base and its demands should be respected and listened to
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Yeah, it's a demand for the people that claim to be civil servants to actually serve the people that got them there.
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but how did you not hear that it was "No, *you* bend the knee to *us*" an inversion of the consistent demand from the other direction
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the point being "us" = the popular left, as opposed to the the centrist technocrats who already demand it
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60,000 of us stood and sat outside the WTO in Seattle '99 and forced them to "bend the knee". Citizens won; neoliberalism lost.
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Then don't run for governor or senator.
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1000's of us tree-sat, rallied & locked ourselves 2gether & told Charles Hurwutz "bend the knee". We saved Earth's largest redwood forest.
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er, maybe if made by the powerful few to the weak masses. When the weak demand that the powerful humble themselves, that's democratic.
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"Bend the knee" specifically grates bc of the polemical hubris it has. The Chapo chaps vastly overstate their side's influence
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But polemical hubris is part & parcel of ambitious satirists who have real deeply felt political commitments
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