20 Jun 2021 6:35 pm
Well that’s why I said Cannon’s argument is invalid...majority of liberals AFAIK do not oppose the “liberal establishment” (and make no mistake - the USA is liberal ideologically) and I don’t see why they should. Sure they might bitch about how we don’t have UHC under Biden but they, in the end, support Democrat Party sycophants/servants.FOS » 20 Jun 2021, 6:24 pm » wrote: ↑ Huey long's ideas and policies are still very popular today, and always will be.
That is why he had to be assassinated rather than refuted.
But this winds up having to be a continual process. The elite have to constantly play whack a mole with these dangerous ideas...and the internet became a big stumbling block for them.
And since the EL-Lite clearly are opposed to the people, it stands to reason that the people also oppose them.
But this is a funny sort of civil war going on...because the elite also control access to information. So not only is this a funny sort of cold civil war, it is also invisible.
They support “the elites.”
Then Cannon might come back and say, “Well then they’re not really liberals,” but that reeks of NTS fallacy. Why should Cannon be the final arbiter of who is a “liberal” and who isn’t a liberal? Solon or Vegas giants can make the same argument about why Cannon isn’t the liberal because he made racist jokes and “liberals can’t be racists” or some BS.
He may find 2021 American liberals’ viewpoints repugnant, but saying “they’re not really liberals” is hefty baggage and requires major substantiation.
I mean it’s the same **** libertarians pull - if you criticize their arguments then they fall back on, “oh well [X] isn’t a free market system so you can’t use that against me.”