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u/goldenrags · 3 pointsr/atlanticdiscussions

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>But unlike independents, moderates are more likely to be Democrats. The average moderate in the Voter Study Group data is solidly center-left on both economic and immigration issues. This, I think, has mostly to do with linguistic history: Republicans have long embraced the “conservative” label, but for decades Democrats ran away from the “liberal” label, leaving “moderate” as the only self-identification refuge for many Democrats. (Only recently has “liberal” again become a fashionable identification for the left.)
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>Consider the typical ideology survey question, which gives respondents three options: liberal, moderate or conservative. A voter who identifies as neither liberal nor conservative has only one other option: moderate. And moderate sounds like a good thing. Isn’t moderation a virtue?
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>As the political scientists Donald Kinder and Nathan Kalmoe put it, after looking at five decades of public opinion research, “the moderate category seems less an ideological destination than a refuge for the innocent and the confused.”8 Similarly, political scientist David Broockman has also written about the meaninglessness of the “moderate” label, particularly as a predictor of centrism.
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>The takeaway is simple: As they must with independents, any pundit who talks about “moderates” as a key voting bloc begs that second follow-up question: Which moderates?9

u/afdiplomat · 2 pointsr/atlanticdiscussions

Why, on their own premises, would they consider a sense of Jewish history useful? Jews are serving a purely instrumental purpose: by their actions in the present, to create the conditions for the Second Coming. On this basis, what Jews have done in the past is presumably irrelevant (except, of course, for their part in the biblical narrative):

Ed Kilgore (among the few progressive writers who take religion seriously) explained this outlook recently in discussing the specific type of philosemitism that animates the evangelicals in Trump's base:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/when-trump-calls-jews-disloyal-hes-talking-to-evangelicals.html

Kilgore explained it this way (which I'm quoting at length to make the details clear):

"So why do Trump’s ruminations about Jews and Israel resonate so much with conservative Evangelicals? Strictly speaking, of course, they are largely of the opinion that Jews are going to burn in hell for all eternity if they don’t accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior. But they also tend to view Jews through the prism of their own self-conception as the Chosen People of God — sort of the new, complete model for which Jews were a rough cut. Theologically, this is called “supersessionism,” the belief that a New Covenant God made with believers through Christ has replaced his Old Covenant with the Hebrews. It’s not an exclusive Evangelical belief; Catholic James Carroll wrote an entire book about it as the ultimate source of Christian anti-Semitism throughout the ages. But it shows no sign of fading among Evangelicals, who generally view the Hebrew scriptures as their own inheritance, and themselves as new, perfected Jews.

"If you’ve grown up Evangelical, saturated in the Old as well as the New Testaments, the Jews are a mirror image of yourself, and Israel (or as it is more often referred to in these circles, the Holy Land, a tourist destination even more common for them than Rome is for Catholics) is your deeply familiar spiritual homeland. There is a long-standing strain of Evangelical thinking called Christian Zionism, based on the idea that the reestablishment of a Jewish State in Palestine is an important part of God’s plan for redemption of the world. For many, this idea is more controversially associated with the premillennial prophetic belief, rooted in a literal understanding of the New Testament, that Israeli Jews will go to war with their heathen neighbors in a literally apocalyptic battle (specifically, at a place called Armageddon) that will trigger the final judgment, the Second Coming of Jesus, and the end of the world (at which point, some believe, Jews will get a second and final chance to bend the knee to Christ the King).

"In this scheme (mostly laid out in the New Testament Book of Revelation, an elaborate allegory probably written in the traumatic aftermath of the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in A.D. 70), Jerusalem plays a key role. This is why American Evangelicals were significantly more excited than American Jews at Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy there, as theologian Diana Butler Bass explained at the time, drawing on her own Evangelical upbringing:

>Jerusalem was our prophetic bellwether. God’s plan hung on its fate. Whenever Israel gained more political territory, whenever Israel extended its boundaries, it was God’s will, the end-times unfolding on the evening news. Jerusalem, as the spiritual heart of Israel, mattered. Jerusalem was God’s holy city, of the ancient past, in its conflicted present, and for the biblical future.For many conservative evangelicals, Jerusalem is not about politics. It is not about peace plans or Palestinians or two-state solutions. It is about prophecy. About the Bible. And, most certainly, it is about the end-times.

"And so, in tightening Israel’s grip on Jerusalem, and more generally supporting an aggressive and expansionist Jewish State, Trump may be appealing to Jewish solidarity with Israel, but more important to him politically is the demonstration to Evangelicals that in this, as in many other things (notably the fight to reverse LGBTQ and reproductive rights), he is an agent of the divine will, despite (or sometimes because of) his heathenish personal behavior."

And this vision, mediated through politically-motivated appeasement of the Republican party's most loyal and essential constituency, is now deeply influential in U.S. foreign policy toward Israel.

u/AndyinTexas · 6 pointsr/atlanticdiscussions

Pleased to learn today that my friend Kevin Levin's book, Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth, has gone into a second printing just seven weeks after its original release by the University of North Carolina Press.

u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/atlanticdiscussions

I liked this one.

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u/CMemp · 3 pointsr/atlanticdiscussions

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u/JedBoop · 6 pointsr/atlanticdiscussions

Spines of the Finwomen

1. Water Creatures

Some of you will remember the movie Creature From the Black Lagoon. The movie was made before nine years before I was born, in 1954. I loved this movie so much I used to cry hysterically at the end when the creature is killed. I didn’t give a shit about the woman or anyone killed by the creature; like all idiots who only care about themselves, they shot at the creature as a first encounter. The movie has all of my favorite elements in it: geology, fossil evidence from the Devonian period, a postulated link between land and sea creatures, an ichthyologist, and the best monster I’d ever seen in my life: a piscine amphibious humanoid. The original movie was black and white, and the creature was called “Gill-man.”

I never, saw the creature as a man. I saw the creature as a finwoman. By the time I saw the movie I was ten years old and already a veteran competitive swimmer.

Mildred Elizabeth Fulvia di Rossi, otherwise known as Milicent or “Mil” Patrick, created the creature but was eliminated from the credits. A jealous idiot named Bud Westmore stole her credit and ended her job at Universal Studios. She died in 1988. Her credits have since been restored. It took 2019 book by Mallory O’Meara, The Lady From the Black Lagoon, to resuscitate her value from the depths of the Hollywood.

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https://therumpus.net/2019/10/spines-of-the-finwomen/

u/00Qant5689 · 4 pointsr/atlanticdiscussions

>The key to understanding both Conservatism and the Conservative Media is to understand they believe they are at War, and "Liberals" are the enemy. Just like during a War, say WW2 for example, people will blindly follow their own governments propoganda not because it is true or not but because their side said it and to believe your own side is to support the war effort.

It's not just the whole "siege mentality" that makes conservative media so effective and widespread. Once you distill it down to the essentials, conservative media appeals to the base fears and underlying psychologies of many viewers in such a visceral and primal way that it overrides their higher reasoning. It's no surprise that a lot of what you see on Fox, Breitbart, and InfoWars, etc. is over-the-top, sensationalized, and fairly short on facts a lot of times: it's specifically aimed at stoking, reinforcing, or sparking the emotions and pysches of specific viewers who generally vote conservative. And as long as this keeps up, there would be very little reason for Trumpsters and those on the right in general to break free of these self-reinforcing loops or the groupthink bias and siege mentality of conservative media.

I've oversimplified this considerably because I haven't read this source material in more than two years by now, but Jonathan Haidt covered this in greater detail in The Righteous Mind. If you haven't read it already, I'd highly recommend it.

u/wet_suit_one · 1 pointr/atlanticdiscussions

I'm kind of annoyed by this article:

https://thebulwark.com/the-liberals-who-cried-wolf/



The Liberals Who Cried Wolf


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>Having spent a great deal of time chronicling the right’s descent into crackpotism, I’ve often thought what a book titled… I don’t know, just spitballing here .. “How the Left Lost Its Mind” … might look like. 
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> The book would very likely include a section on several pieces that appeared this week in the Washington Post‘s “Outlook” section, including this one that suggests that conservatives who are concerned about civility, reason, and free speech are really echoing … Confederate defenses of slavery.
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>The article appears just days after a botched attempt in the same section to equate prolifers with white supremacists. (The piece was so dishonest that editors removed a section that dishonestly smeared author J.D. Vance.)
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I'm pretty sure TAD will be too.

So it goes...

At least he bothers to acknowledge that they really are there, just not that so many cons are racists (from Reagan on down).

u/WhoamIWhyamI · 2 pointsr/atlanticdiscussions

>Each of these circles has a different half-life for its grief. People in Pittsburgh’s Jewish community still talk about the shooting over Shabbat dinners, but when they leave the city and strangers ask where they’re from, “Pittsburgh” often no longer carries any particular meaning, many people I interviewed over the weekend told me. As after other mass shootings in America—the murders of children at elementary schools and high schools, of people dancing at a nightclub and shopping in a Walmart, of worshippers inside a Sikh temple and a black church—with each anniversary, the Pittsburgh attack will slip further into the great fog of forgetting, swallowed up by the latest national political drama or by workaday life.

Amid the numerous shootings, which ones above can each of us remember? For example, the list doesn't include https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting.