Conservatives, especially, are pantsing themselves with the "system is broken" arguments, because they apply them so selectively.
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White conservatives were more than happy to note that Af-Am voters were making poor, uneducated, race-based choices. They were right. /2
Suddenly, white voters act *exactly the same way*, and it's "the system is broken." Because, you know, white voters can't be dumb. /3
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And conservatives resort to exactly the same tropes for which they torched liberals 30 years earlier. Because, yanno, our guys and all. /4
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The system isn't broken. Nor is the economy. A stratum of voters is. It will pass, but not before they vote for a whole lot more damage. /5x
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The system is receiving a broad-spectrum Cloward-Piven attack, and you'd argue it's all hunky-dunky? Interesting.
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Good call. I think he is saying something akin to "darkest right before the dawn". An existential crisis is even likely, yet not baked in.
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Those "darkest right before the dawn" paradigm shifts are just hard to see for experts with status quo investments. I submit that we're /1
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in one, it's technology (esp. social media) driven, & that it's going to be as gentle on Progressivism as it was on Borders Books. /2x
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One of the most important tweets of any thread I've ever read. Captures the arbitrariness of race & the hypocrisy of partisans.
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