The Most Coonsian Washington Post Editorial Ever!

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1. Alby says:

   September 4, 2022 at 5:34 am

   British economist Umair Haque notes that Big Media did its utmost to undermine Biden’s message — not airing it, both-sidesing the response, etc. — but it will go down as an important turning point despite that.

   https://eand.co/bidens-philly-speech-will-be-a-turning-point-for-america-and-the-world-9dfb50db9c87

   • jason330 says:

     September 4, 2022 at 7:39 am

     What did he have to say? He made basically four points. Number one, the rise of this form of politics — violence, intimidation, hate, scapegoating, Big Lies, rage, a vitriolic rage at the values of democracy itself — was not normal. Not in a democracy. Because, two, it was inimical to democracy — this was how modern societies plunged backwards into chaos and ruin. That meant, three, that fighting this form of politics, rejecting it, wasn’t a partisan issue of left and right at all — but about coming together to defend democracy itself. And four, that was every sane and thoughtful person’s not just choice, but responsibility. Their duty. To whom? To history. To futurity. And to each other.
     Beautiful. Elegant. Powerful. True.
     Some speeches are just speeches. The tedium of democratic bureaucracy — new policies, updates, agendas, like Zoom meetings, but for a society. The boring stuff of management. History safely ignores them. And then there are speeches. Ones which change history, because they remind people of it, where they stand in it, and how it’s made — or unmade.
     This was one of those speeches.

     • jason330 says:

       September 4, 2022 at 7:57 am

       If it is possible, I’ve been even more angry at coons since the Biden speech. He did tell us all (even Jr Senators) that we’d need to make a choice, and Coons is dithering.

       The American Establishment is deeply uncomfortable with what Biden’s doing. They are trying to stop him. The networks didn’t fail to cover his speech and the Times and Post barely mention it and CNN disgracefully attacks its backdrop, as if that was the thing which really mattered — in some kind of coincidence. It’s how power works. Some of it’s explicit — like CNN reporters obviously being instructed by their new libertarian boss to attack the President. Some of it’s implicit, like networks all deciding, hey, a President warning your democracy’s under existential threat isn’t worth you hearing about…

       even though the American Establishment doesn’t think it’s possible, doesn’t want it to be true, because it just wants Americans to be numb, dumb, passive consumers, walking credit cards without brains — Americans are listening, intently, and they’re electrified by what they hear. It’s going to change America, without a doubt, from the bottom up.