Camille Paglia trying to be smart about politics
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If the economy continues strong, Trump will be reelected. The Democrats (my party) have been in chaos since the 2016 election and have no coherent message except Trump hatred.
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Ok I can handle that. Decent point. The Democrats aren't unified right now and Trump could win based on that combined with a "strong economy." Now I personally don't agree that a crowded field + the stock market doing well is enough to guarantee Trump -- but respect the opinion. Especially since that is verbatim what a any given political analyst in D.C. would likely tell you.
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Despite the vast pack of potential candidates, no one yet seems to have the edge. I had high hopes for Kamala Harris, but she missed a huge opportunity to play a moderating, statesmanlike role and has already imprinted an image of herself as a ruthless inquisitor that will make it hard for her to pull voters across party lines.
Screechy Elizabeth Warren has never had a snowball’s chance in hell to appeal beyond upper-middle-class professionals of her glossy stripe. Kirsten Gillibrand is a wobbly mediocrity. Cory Booker has all the gravitas of a cork. Andrew Cuomo is a yapping puppy with a long, muddy bullyboy tail. Both Bernie Sanders (for whom I voted in the 2016 primaries) and Joe Biden (who would have won the election had Obama not cut him off at the knees) are way too old and creaky.
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And this is where Paglia reveals herself as a repeater of "serious" pundits on various TV networks. Not someone with any capacity for her own opinion on politics. And then clicked with me...all this of shit she says like:
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As a bumptious adolescent in upstate New York, I stumbled on a British collection of Oscar Wilde’s epigrams in a secondhand bookstore. It was an electrifying revelation, a text that I studied like the bible. What bold, scathing wit, cutting through the sentimental fog of those still rigidly conformist early 1960s, when good girls were expected to simper and defer.
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Its all fake. Its all to make herself sound smarter then she actually is. She doesn't come up with any of this shit herself.
No serious discussion about Sanders. Claiming the Harris's problem is she is too tough and on the side of liberals -- and that Warren is "only popular with the upper middle class" -- no wider mention of the simple fact that there is a leftwing and a rightwing of the democratic party. A complete mis-diagionises of Clinton's issues: 2015 is calling for its bullshit Clinton analysis back.
What a fucking idiot. This proves any feminist can get a following simply by repeating some rightwing talking points. At least Peterson made his own crap up.
12-05-2018, 11:06 AM
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